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Poems and The Passionate Skeptic are entirely those of
the author, who has no aim to influence, proselytize or persuade
others to a point of view. He is pleased if his writing generates
reflection in readers, either for or against the sentiment of the
argument. The names and characters in Thor's Poems are fictional
(except for autobiography), although most events are composites
from some reality.
Time
Passing -
(an anthology of poems - 1970 to 2008)
1. Advertisements
For Modern Minds 1970
2. The
World was a Poem 1970
3. The Clasp of Withal 1970
4. Herat 1972
5. Eyes 1971
6. Akiko 1972
7. Today
has lasted for 4 billion and 2 years, 6 hours, 12 minutes
and 13.5 seconds 1973
8. Making Friends with Mary Brown 1973
9. Once 1973 /
10. Hunger 1974
11. Letter
Home 1976
12. Age 1976
13. Intent 1976
14. Honeysuckle 1976
15. New
Growth 1977
16. Things 1978
17. Adrift 1988
18. Extraordinary 1995
19. Wood,
Paper, Plastic 1999
20. Seventeen in 1962 2000
21. Tiger
in the Night 2001
22. Whatever It Was 2002
23. Busan Summer 2002
24. No
Regrets 2004
25. World's
End 2005
26. Anemone 2005
27. Foreign
Holiday 2005
28. Times Sixty on Frosty
Gyemyeongsan 2006
29. Ladies' Day 2007
30. Stranger in Paradise 2008
31. Australia Calling Home 2008
32. Australian Blue 2008
The
Wrong Address - fragments from an Australasian life
(an autobiography and anthology, 19 prose poems; 1987)
FOREWORD
1.TARAWONGA Springwood
NSW, 1956
2. THE
PAINTED PATH Bridge Road, Belmore, NSW 1960
3. TRAVELING
NORTH Australia, 1962
4. PSYCHIC
DRAMAS Canberra, 1965
5. THE
WAVERING MOON Burton Street, Sydney 1966
6. THE
ÉMIGRÉ Oriental Bay, Wellington, New Zealand 1967
7. WORKING CHRISTMAS Harris
Street, Ultimo, NSW 1967
8. HEART
OF THE REVOLUTION Wellington, New Zealand
1968
9. WIDE
WORLDS East Putney, England 1971
10. THE
BOARDING HOUSE Reading Street, Wellington, New Zealand
1973
11. SILVER
SCREEN Epsom, New Zealand 1975
12. BARBECUE
BLUES Waterloo Street, Howick, New Zealand 1976
13. DEMENTIA William
Street, Armadale, Victoria 1977
14. THE
LAST COCKATOO Illawarra Avenue, Newcastle NSW 1979
15. HALLS OF
ACADEMIA Newcastle, Australia 1980
16. INFIDELITY Pitt
Street, Newcastle 1981
17. FIREPOWER Tarania
Street, Lismore, NSW 1983
18. RESPECTABILITY Tyrell
Street, Newcastle, 1984
19. FRIENDS Irimo
Street, Lae, PNG 1985
Stumpy
and the Decision Tree
(
a daggy epic of the unexpected
(growing day by day)
I've gotta' admit, the gunner
blinked, it's neat -
That tear-down screen, the instant con of command ...
Meg grabbed his ear and he flinched.
You tinfoil hoon, she hissed, you wouldn't know
A sacred sign from the flash of an arcade strip.
Now hit back a signal wrapped in respect
Before we get zapped to a crisp....
So
You Wanna' Write a Poem??
{ advice from a silly old bugger
to earnest young things ... ) We
watched as he carefully unwrapped his little bundle from a
scarlet kerchief, and spread it out on the dirt floor before
our altar. It was given with a good heart, we could see. But
we sighed. That sigh of a god who is sick to death of gifts
of chicken feathers, and milk, and honey. Should we tell him?
Damn it all man, we want GOLD ......
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Doubt
well, do what you can, then let it be. Presidents, priests,
wage slaves, hustlers, men and women, kids, we all live by
the grace of those we love to despise...
I
don't care what you believe in, so long as you don't believe
in it too strongly. A belief is a weapon in the armoury of
your heart, and its razor edge will murder the innocent. The
ice, the fire of your passion will seduce mundane men and women.
Your clarity will excite respect. And the first demagogue
who comes along with a key to your heart's armoury will wrest
the weapon from your moral grasp. The first cause which wears
the colours of your belief will enlist you as a soldier in
ravaging crusades. Peace friend. Keep your passion to doubt
with. Our civilization is a simple matter of live and let live,
of giving dreams a go, but stepping back with a wry smile when
we get it wrong. Let the fundamentalists perish in their own
pillars of fire. Spare a dollar for the living, and have a
nice day.
- Thor
@1 November 1991
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