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i is the revolution
Written by Maxine Clarke on 14-02-2011
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This is brilliant! But isn’t this poetry? What happened to the poetry policy – haha.
I begged Gabrielle – just for this once!
Haha – it’s the thin edge which hopefully will be used to widen the space wherein more poetry shall fall. Go Maxine!
Wow. I love this. Thanks for publishing it.
I think you might be scaring Jacinda (the blog editor), Gabrielle. But now that you mention it…
Thanks Jason. It was a blast to write. Been a long time since I had such fun with words. Now I remember why I started all this poetry jazz.
Great poem!
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Excellent write
What an amazing poem! Bring on the revolution! Bring on poetry on the Overland blog!!!
The beauty of poetry : i would rather read a poem like this than a 500 word non-fiction article!
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