Calling all 60's tragics - take your seat on the grass please! Please...

Views in Verse on free love

Maybe John Lennon was right...
it sure was popular at time...
or a few years on from the Bellamy Bros...

"Mumma's ways and the Woodstock nation?"

What a contrast it was!!!








"I don't want nothin' heavy just my baby in the back of my Chevy...kiss away my blues in the full moonlight" The appeal soon returned to the traditional a few short years later but...

without doubt the most powerful political period of our time ...fueled by views, fashion and music that are still popular today!

Freedom's Child

I see you getting about campus
My eyes seem to follow you
As you caste out smiles to all around
'in train' your captive crew

Somehow today I caught you alone
Your presence just drew me there
Up close you enchanted me more
With that flower...
at rest in your hair

Then you tell me you're
a 'freedom child' ...
There's karma in all you view
How you get a little lost on
serious stuff
Not looking for a partner true

You say you see yourself
in a perfumed garden
With nature as your best friend
Growing wild
Just giving
No 'one' man ...your favours lend

Seems to me you're just history girl
Letting 'free love'
be your charm
Hey ...I thought that kinda died
With the hippies child
In the rain on Yasgur's farm

In truth ...you see yourself as
the hottest thing going...
 with a heart that can't be true
But hey...
Watch this Cuban heat seekin' missile babe
Cos I'm aimin' it ...right ...at you
( Yes I am)


Grahame Flynn - Sent from my iPad

Views in verse on 'reawakening'

I caught up with a documentary on Michael Hutchence recently. A sad refrain indeed.

Such a tragedy to see people who have enough financially in life to do with whatever they want, instead surrender who they are (and all they hold dear) to 'a lifestyle'. Flashy, indulgent and ...deadly.

Where does one go after playing to stadium crowds? Normalisation? Appreciation?

On a much smaller scale however we can all of course face similar challenges in our lives. Is there a way back?

Well there is ...but one has to first want to find the path. And go it alone...

VENICE

She came to Venice ancient city

Seeking shelter from her seas

Throwing wide her troubled life

To new discovery

Questions of the past

To find some answers for today

Seeking reawakening...

And staving off decay

Stepping into St Marc's Square

The rain came belting down

She was wetted fully through 

once she'd made her way cross town

A fresh baptism was to be

The ideal starting place

For this private quest

This pilgrimage...

This enchanted chase

Sad lady open up 

your stone shutters

Your face is

Beautiful to see

Mystical city

Flint hard through the years

Give up your mysteries to me

She searched all round for insight

Especially of the old

As she moved through the crowds

each passing day

A boatman gave her wonder

of a culture pure and true 

As they paddled off in song

Around the bay

But the town guides were more

in tune with their buildings

that stood so stoically in line

They spoke in detail 

of the history there to see 

the secret to

the passion there enshrined

Sad lady open up

your stone shutters

Your face is

Beautiful to see

Mystical city

Flint hard through the years

Give up your mysteries to me

The black gondola stealing 

through the walled canyons 

Drew images 

of deepest treachery

While the fog of narrow alleyways

Asked so many questions 

About how closed

you really want your life to be

But the stories that

she heard were mainly 

comfort to her cause

As she sought to draw the

secrets from within

And the kindly folk

she came to know from it all

stood tall amongst

their finery and sin

Sad lady open up 

your stone shutters

Your face is

Beautiful to see

Mystical city

Flint hard through the years

Give up your mysteries to me

She waved goodbye to Venezia

From beneath the sacred domes 

A morning mist 

Near lifted from the mire

The dull tones 

she had seen from the first

Gave way to dancing colours 

from a spire

At this moment she knew that 

the Lady had touched her

In wresting her pain

from deep within

The gift so gently offered 

was gratefully taken

As the rain again

played gently on her skin

Sad lady open up 

your stone shutters

Your face is

Beautiful to see

Mystical city

Flint hard through the years

Thank you for your 

Truth and dignity...

You have given back

the woman that is me

Forwarded from my I phone - Grahame J Flynn

Find a job that makes sense to YOU!

Views in verse on the working week

Today is Monday - the start of the week...

I wasn't even in my seat at work than already two people on the way had accosted me with "Uggg ...only five days to go". Often people complain about their jobs in such a way - do they really mean it?

Does this sign say it all?



Well, I wasn't thinking about it too much longer than I came to realize that the only people who don't seem to whine about work today are those that are out of work. And there are increasing numbers of those at present. Surely the remainder of us should perhaps give that a little thought in this climate and to the brave entrepreneurs who are 'keeping the faith" despite this.

So taking me back to this rather pretentious sign which has danced around social media in recent weeks (Gen X propagenda), I recalled that the 'most awesome' places I have worked over the years were equally filled with pretentious people (including me of course). You wouldn't wish that on yourself!

Assess your own values,strengths and needs ...forget the glitzy promo's.

Sunday nights

I can think of no obvious reason
When everything seems to be right
That life seems utterly gloomy
Every ...Sunday night

I can tick every box on the weekend
Relish the sunshine bright
But nothing can stop the blues setting in
Again ...come ...Sunday night

Perhaps it's the workday pending
Or the thought of the early wake
But truthfully I can't find one good reason
I'm stumped for heaven's sake...

I'm fine come Monday morning
Work just falls into place
The week then
goes by so quickly
...my life is on roller skates

So ...I know that the weekend
will soon be with me...
the prize is in plain sight!
So why do I feel like such a
'busted-ass loser'
Every ...Sunday night

I turn to my love
for answers...
...the giver of best insights
She adds:
"happy to help with your strange dilemmas...
but don't ask on Sunday nights"

Forwarded from my Ipad - Grahame J Flynn

Hansel & Gretel - Aussie Style - a hot new movie on the horizon!

Views in verse on fairy tales. 

I today spotted online a report released by Fairfax (Willitts) - 'Australia ranks 13th in world innovation'. I read it with some interest as I was thinking "well hey ...that ain't too bad". Reading on through the summary multi-columnar report I also noted that Australia is ranked therein as 5th in 'productivity'. I didn't read any further... 

I could only presume that this information was picked up by Bloomberg mistakenly from a fledgling 'movie to be' perhaps starring Kevin Rudd as Hansel and Julia Gillard as Gretel in a Union movement backed remake of the classic fairy tale. Tony Abbott would look great in drag as the wicked witch ...don't you reckon?

Hansel & Gretel

Hansel and Gretel
were soul-mate lovers
with an eye on getting to the top
They sunk their future into social media
And worked very hard full stop

Fast movers in society...
At all the events
they were there
Hansel looked after the people side
Gretel did the books
(...and her hair)

It was fine
Till Helga came along
An events girl with real 'smartz'
Seen all around town with Hansel
Winning all the bigwigs' hearts

Gretel heard rumours
Of this success...
concluding smoke must be fire!
When Hansel
denied any knowledge of this
Gretel called him a big liar

The company boomed
The industry swooned
Helga became the new face
As Hansel pushed the business along
Gretel dropped right off the pace

She lost control
of her back-office too
on hearing that Helga was pregnant
She left the business
Without checking the facts
Something Hansel further rejected

The next week they hosted
the media awards
All these things came to a head
As out of the crowd
Gretel roared loud
and politely shot them both dead

The moral is clear:
we needn't fear
of going into media...
But before finding fame
with three German names
You need to take care:

That there's
more of challenge
to all involved
than the maintenance
of one's own hair

from my i-pad - Grahame J Flynn

Every cloud has a silver lining!

Views in verse on change and renewal

There was an article by Martin Wolf mid week that caught my eye...'Is technology creating a Downton Abbey economy'?

He was espousing the great fear of technological advancement and how it is eliminating jobs in quantum leaps at present. He used the imagery of the Downton Abbey servants and how the Lord of the Manor could not continue to keep the Estate 'to the manor born' given that he had not kept up with latest available methods in running his 'business'.

Wolf added that, by real life example, the US Army will be able to release half of its supply chain staff by 2020 given the productivity gains made possible in the field. But where do the people go afterwards and what will they do? Well is this really new? We have been hearing these arguments for half a century.

We are seeing a lot of factory closures in Australia at present and the media is of course always first to spin the tag line for all it's worth. However for every door that closes ...another opens. As the viability of one industry fades thereby others arise in better times to suit them and this has been a constant theme over the decades here in this country.

At present, given the ready availability of baby-boomer stashes, there is dramatic expansion coming on in preventative health services and also in luxury construction to cater to the desiring dollar of this cashed up sector. Already many workers are being re-channelled into these opportunities. And of course, with the lowering dollar, tourism and education are rebounding too; as will 'niche manufacturing' to come in the mid term. Labour reform is of course still a 'work in progress'.

I will postulate a litter further on the displaced Downton staff. Their lifestyles would have been greatly impacted by leaving the estate ...a massive change; but how long would our make believe 'downstairs' workers really have been out of work with their well honed skills - not for long one would think. Uptown 'things to have' indeed!

Except for the wife murderer of course, he would have had his work cut out!

Renewal

Release
the past
It's spent
and gone
Accept
my friend
it's done!

Embrace
tomorrow
as a child
plays in rain
The future
holds promise
for some

For those
who open up
their hearts
and trust in
themselves
Good things will come
to them
as if by chance.

To lovers
who caste aside fear
the odd
chortled jeer
and boldly
march up to the floor
and dance

And to those who
take a
selfless route
in fulfilling
their pursuit
Reward will come
to them
with seeming grace...

Live to love 

the day
before wishing it away

on the past
...spent
but never

out of place!



From my I-pad - Grahame J Flynn

Grahame J Flynn -  Sent from my iPhone