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Pauline

Poet, mostly

About Me

I live in Melbourne and write poetry. I have been an actress, dancer and singer. Don't play an instrument though.

My Interests

Poetry , music, Reiki, theatre, film, Sanskrit, photographing things, talking to people

I'd like to meet:

People who are passionate, intelligent, generous, creative, light, dark, weird, wild, magical, cool, burning, spiritual, poetic, musical, visual, shy, brave, delicate, intense, comic, exhibitionistic, young, old, ageless, original, ordinary, extraordinay - any and all of.

Music:

The Green Mist, Silver Ray, Penny Ikinger, Hugo Race and the True Spirit, The Dirty Three, Anita Lane, PJ Harvey, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, Nico, Roxy Music, Marianne Faithfull, The Doors, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, Grinderman, Morphosa Harmonia, Kurt Weil, Burt Bacharach, Arvo Part

Movies:

Breakfast at Tiffanys, Chicago, Human Nature, O Brother Where Art Thou, Marie Antoinette, In the Cut, Lost Highway, The Ninth Gate, Nosferatu, Romance, Sin City

Television:

Medium (Fan of Patricia Arquette), The Sopranos (Fan of James Gandolfini)

Books:

Crow (Ted Hughes), Birthday Letters (Ted Hughes), Lines of Life (Germaine Greer), Selected Poems (Christina Rossetti), A Red Cherry on a White Tiled Floor (Maram Al-Massri), Stangeland (Tracey Emin), The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (Sei Shonagon), Tao Te Ching (Lao Tsu), Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (BKS Iyengar)

Heroes:



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My Blog

Ambergris

This was inspired by the story of Black Harry and Black Louie Smith who set sail from Southport, Tasmania in 1904 - as told to me by Julien Poulson of The Green Mist ...Best read while listening to '...
Posted by Pauline on Thu, 10 May 2007 01:51:00 PST

Check out this event: Poetry at The Spinning Room

I will be reading my poetry at : Place : 'The Spinning Room'ET's Bar 211 High Street Prahran Date : Tuesday 15th May 2007 Time :8.30pm : Open Mike (Some of Melbourne's finest )9.30pm : Feature (Me)...
Posted by Pauline on Wed, 02 May 2007 05:56:00 PST

Secret (tagged!)

SecretUnder my breath a word,a vague word, half-breathed,whistled in my sleep,more of a thought than a word.That word:I thought I knew what it meant.It was an ordinary word.Say it under breath, barely...
Posted by Pauline on Tue, 01 May 2007 12:40:00 PST

The Man in the Moon

The Man in the MoonThe mirror is a moonand you're the man in the moon.Your face haunts the placeswhere the mercury has goneand the glass doesn't rimthe warm world's cold twin.I look through your hollo...
Posted by Pauline on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:59:00 PST

More Louise

Dating wasn't any easier in the 16th century... O beautiful brown eyes, o sidelong glance,O heated sighs, o floods of tears I wept,O black nights, in vain the trysts I kept,O shining days, in vain ...
Posted by Pauline on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:20:00 PST

Pink Silk Slip

Pink silk slipThe pink silk slipslides on my thighslike rain on a leaf,watering my skin.A rustle, a ripple, it fallsacross my breasts. My flanksdrink the cool gloss, pink as petals, dawn's fingerstick...
Posted by Pauline on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:34:00 PST

The Sea

The seaI wanted to know the seaand be called sea.I wanted the song of the seato flood my ears' gills.             I wanted to roll foreveron the s...
Posted by Pauline on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:04:00 PST

RIP Lindzee Smith 1940-2007

Part of Australian theatre history came to an end last Saturday with the death of Lindzee Smith. In the late 60's Lindzee was instrumental in setting up the legendary Australian Performing Group a...
Posted by Pauline on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:47:00 PST

A Poem for Valentine's Day

Because it's Valentine's day, I'm posting a poem I think goes with the occasion. I didn't write this, but I did translate it. The author is Louise Labe, who (allegedly) lived in Lyon, France  (H...
Posted by Pauline on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:03:00 PST