Looking forward to the launch and to following up with my blog post next Wednesday. Now, although I'm not eligible for the competition, I found myself thinking of two songs: Big Yellow Taxi (... pave paradise, put up a parking lot) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=94bdMSCdw20&vidve=5727&autoplay=1 and Smiley (...you're off to the Asian war, and we won't see you smile no more ...) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3__s39V3mYE but here's a link to a poem that really touched me the first time I read it: http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/noonuccal-oodgeroo/assimilation-no-0719019.
Thanks for that Mazzy. Big Yellow Taxi and Smiley are favourites of mine. I remember liking Smiley as a child, not fully appreciating that it was about the Vietnam War. I hadn't come across that poem by Oodgeroo Noonuccal before. It's powerful. Thanks for sharing.
Looking forward to the launch and to following up with my blog post next Wednesday. Now, although I'm not eligible for the competition, I found myself thinking of two songs: Big Yellow Taxi (... pave paradise, put up a parking lot) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=94bdMSCdw20&vidve=5727&autoplay=1 and Smiley (...you're off to the Asian war, and we won't see you smile no more ...) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3__s39V3mYE but here's a link to a poem that really touched me the first time I read it: http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/noonuccal-oodgeroo/assimilation-no-0719019.
Thanks for that Mazzy. Big Yellow Taxi and Smiley are favourites of mine. I remember liking Smiley as a child, not fully appreciating that it was about the Vietnam War. I hadn't come across that poem by Oodgeroo Noonuccal before. It's powerful. Thanks for sharing.