We are Lord Howe Island Stick Insects. We fled the lush green Lord Howe Island many years ago. We made our way to Balls Pyramid, a jagged rock in the...

Isn’t it comforting to know all of us aren’t truly strangers? How the random person beside you on the train is, or already has, experienced the same cup of poison...

Laughter is good for the soul! Laughter is the warmth that embraces you back, seeping into your bones. It lifts smiles, pinches cheeks and slaps you on the back cheerfully....

The patter of rain guides the ears, petrichor releases pent up earth, leads the nose to a hidden freedom. Rain drops scatter glimmering moonlight, reveals a veiled world in shadows....

I am WaterBearerGirl, the greatest floating object person the world has ever seen. And if they don’t know my name yet, they soon will. I was in my shower singing...

to smile is to give light to flash the teeth to say ‘i’m on you’re side’ to smile is to bridge the gap of silence

You’re dad must be from Tripoli and I’m getting notes of the mountain flex and fall the stretch of sand before mum’s brow the pillar and strength of an old...

The sound of endorphins rolls against my vocal cords, Soon stretching the corners of my mouth, My eyes pinch together forming crescent moons, My teeth glistening, reflecting, readjusting rekindling, My...

The perfect world isn’t one with perfect people who live and share the same characteristics as one another but it is one where each individual is valued in society for...

What never stops, no matter what What makes people grow in different ways What changes from place to place You can never get it back once it is gone. You...

It has a quiet energy, Just lying there, whispering secrets that The world holds close to its chest. Promises of life, not the short bursts of happiness, Dreams of change,...

Where do you escape to? “Home is where the heart is.” What about those with a heart that’s been broken into a million, scattered shards? Where is their home –...

Laughter is… A contagious disease Spreading with speed But those who want to resist Face pain like an angry fist For laughter brings happiness and joy galore Of it we...

The place I escape to is my backyard at night. I look up at the sky, see all the sparkling stars, this curious and marvelous constellation, this wonder of the...

Endings and beginnings. A road to wherever life path is shown before us. We have moved through time and space for a millennia. We have created, we have achieved, we...