Ararat
A unique outback town in Australian history16 total reviews
Comment from Eric1
Hi maureen, I thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful trip and thanks to your wonderful descriptions in your brilliant free verse poem I was there along with you all the way, I bet the trip was fantastic! Your author notes were also particularly good my friend.
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Hi maureen, I thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful trip and thanks to your wonderful descriptions in your brilliant free verse poem I was there along with you all the way, I bet the trip was fantastic! Your author notes were also particularly good my friend.
Comment Written 10-Nov-2015
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2015
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How wonderful to have your presence and spirit along with us! And the fantasy gift another afterglow to a fantastic trip, and accompanying global friendships! My thanks Eric, blessings to you, Maureen*&*
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You are very welcome my friend.
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Blessings, Eric*&*
Comment from dragonpoet
This length free verse poem has some internal rhyme and uses repetition to enhance the emotion. I like how Ararat is the beginning of Australia as Ararat was the beginning of the human race again after Noah's flood. It shows how many differnet people get postive feelings from the festival.
It seems a little to repetitive and times though.
Keep writing
dragonpoet
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This length free verse poem has some internal rhyme and uses repetition to enhance the emotion. I like how Ararat is the beginning of Australia as Ararat was the beginning of the human race again after Noah's flood. It shows how many differnet people get postive feelings from the festival.
It seems a little to repetitive and times though.
Keep writing
dragonpoet
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Comment Written 10-Nov-2015
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2015
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Gee, Dragon Poet, thanks for bringing that connection with the Ark into my association. This seems quite pertinent and thought provoking as both our ancient animals and deep Indigenous Spirit gift a link, I think, with those initial male and female souls who flourished honouring the gifts of nature and Mother Earth; long before Adam conceived Eve in his-story of our developing personal ego, and lauded rational mind of man's kind. And, of course, much of Australia now, was a land under a great sea, and then a great flourishing garden, before the deserts of Abraham's time and civilisation's march, yet to blossom as Christ's harvest of true humanity.
A special thanks for stirring thoughts and words anew. Blessings, Maureen*&*
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You're welcome. I try to find different connections with the words in the poems I read. Sometimes they don't match with the author's ideas. I am glad this worked for you.
Joan
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Me too! Thanks Joan*&*
Comment from Joyce Long
Very well done. This is a wonderful remembrance of your vacation in Ararat. It seems to be something that you look forward to. My husband and I have visited all fifty states here in the U.S., but it is so large and so many different things to see that we seldom go back to the same place year after year.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Joyce 11-10-15
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2015
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Very well done. This is a wonderful remembrance of your vacation in Ararat. It seems to be something that you look forward to. My husband and I have visited all fifty states here in the U.S., but it is so large and so many different things to see that we seldom go back to the same place year after year.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Joyce 11-10-15
Comment Written 10-Nov-2015
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2015
Hi Joyce, sounds you are on a treasured journey I can happily dream of, having seen far wider and deeper into our world than I, or my parents, could have imagined before I left England. Now, the great privilege and change of autumn for me is FanStory, and the inspiration to experience with the whole depth and global width of life pooling anew into the moment, and unfolding with the magic as we share. Many thanks for the extra clarity and your sharing, blessings, Maureen*&*
Comment from Gert sherwood
Thank you A.A.A.EXHILARATING RIDE
I found you history/ poem very interesting especially when I didn't know about the --
Victoria's Senior's festival to annual event
Gert
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2015
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Thank you A.A.A.EXHILARATING RIDE
I found you history/ poem very interesting especially when I didn't know about the --
Victoria's Senior's festival to annual event
Gert
Comment Written 10-Nov-2015
reply by the author on 10-Nov-2015
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Yes! So much history I feel our generation has the privilege, pleasure and responsibility of highlighting as younger generations flower so rapidly in a very different global world. Thanks Gert, our Senior's Festival is a much treasured gift, Maureen*&*
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You are welcome A.A.A.EXHILARATING RIDE
Gert
Comment from royowen
I can remember making the the journey in a caravan when my girls were little ones, travelling on more than one occasion to the seaside town of Robe, in the southeast Maureen. Beautiful little place, where several Chinese walked to the Victorian goldfields, quite an undertaking, well done Maureen, in your characteristic style, I love the enthusiasm which leaches out of every pore, well done, your better organised with your seniors over there, dear friend, well done, blessings, Roy
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2015
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I can remember making the the journey in a caravan when my girls were little ones, travelling on more than one occasion to the seaside town of Robe, in the southeast Maureen. Beautiful little place, where several Chinese walked to the Victorian goldfields, quite an undertaking, well done Maureen, in your characteristic style, I love the enthusiasm which leaches out of every pore, well done, your better organised with your seniors over there, dear friend, well done, blessings, Roy
Comment Written 09-Nov-2015
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2015
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Thanks Roy for reinforcing my enthusiasm and joy of this special place at the foot of the Grampians and in history, and also my personal memories of Robe and South Australia. I visited there five or so years ago and stayed at an old English Colonial Home, Lakeside Manor, I think, still existing as a YHA. It still had its old library and many a fine reminder of different times and places. And, again there was a special sense of community, and a bookshop in which I found two special books, one of Matthew Flinders exploring the coastline, and the other of Josiah Wedgwood founder of prized English pottery and the place I went to school.
As to Senior's festival events, many areas still have issues. I am so happy to promote Ararat and suggest to other areas they might like to use their expertise, which I think could do much to help needed tourism generally.
Rainbow blessings, Maureen*&*
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Keep it up, your enthusiasm is infectious
Comment from tfawcus
I particularly enjoyed this, having often visited Robe when I was working in that part of the world. I marvelled at the dogged determination of the Chinese migrants to reach the gold mines using this unforgiving route. We used to take children on a school camp to the classrooms of Sovereign Hill each year, in nearby Ballarat. The history of the goldfields is a most interesting one, many elements of which are captured in your fine poem.
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I particularly enjoyed this, having often visited Robe when I was working in that part of the world. I marvelled at the dogged determination of the Chinese migrants to reach the gold mines using this unforgiving route. We used to take children on a school camp to the classrooms of Sovereign Hill each year, in nearby Ballarat. The history of the goldfields is a most interesting one, many elements of which are captured in your fine poem.
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Comment Written 09-Nov-2015
reply by the author on 09-Nov-2015
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Thanks, lovely to stir your memories also. Robe also stands forward for me. I visited there five or so years ago and stayed at an old English Colonial Home, Lakeside Manor, I think, still existing as a YHA. It still had its old library and many a fine reminder of different times and places. And, again there was a special sense of community, and a bookshop in which I found two special books, one of Matthew Flinders exploring the coastline, and the other of Josiah Wedgwood founder of prized English pottery and the place I went to school.
I guess I honour all our determined pioneers, and certainly, the Chinese Museum in Ararat present a lovely, and complementary picture to Soveriegn Hill. We also lived in Warrandyte, honoured with the find that broke government silence whilst our children grew, so I'm still easily uplifted by the spirit of the times. Thanks again, Blessings, Maureen*&*
