Romance

Roses are dead/Violets are dead/Sugar is made from a different dead plant…

This poetry form is actually pretty sadistic. If you over-think it.

That’s my first attempt at a Valentine’s Day poem but I’m proud of it. It actually tells you how I feel about Valentine’s Day. I’m pretty much against the over-commercialisation of everything and I know I’m definitely fighting a losing battle on this. This is my own personal Gallipoli. 

There is no winning this battle. Unlike Gallipoli, though, there is no retreat from the marketing of the “next big event” in the year, whether it’s Easter stuff being sold from the first few days of January or Christmas decorations going up in August to “celebrations” of things that don’t belong in Australia at all (like Halloween), not to mention the selling of cheap and nasty “Australia Day” junk that has clearly been made in China, I just don’t think it needs to be like this. I won’t be overly surprised to see Thanksgiving make headway in the next few years because of the glut of things to market in October.

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Looking for love? You’d know, then, that most people have a subconscious list of attributes that his or her ideal partner must possess: ‘Must be tall’, maybe. ‘Good looking’. ‘Generous’. ‘Noble of spirit’. ‘Kind to puppies’. Some people’s lists are flexible. Most aren’t. It’s tough out there.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there’s a new one: ‘Must be able to write’.

In an era where so much of our communication happens via the written word, writing has become as much if not more of an aphrodisiac than a fat bank balance or supermodel measurements.

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