Homework for week ending 21/05/12

Maureen K Clifford · Post by **Maureen K Clifford** » Mon May 07, 2012 8:23 am

The Garden of Australian Dreams GOAD is a symbolic landscape – large sculptural forms within a body of water, a little grass and a few trees. It is sited on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin at the National Museum.

http://www.nma.gov.au/about_us/the-buil ... ian_Dreams

One can appreciate the symbolism but to most Australians it is far removed from their own great Australian dream. The dream varies depending on your own personal background. Those from war torn countries come here seeking peace, others were sent here years ago in rotting hulks across less than friendly oceans and they didn’t want to be here at all, and yet they formed the basis of this great nation. Our first nation people, the traditional owners have been here since the Dreamtime, long before white men stepped foot on the soil of this land. Their culture is rich with dreaming.

Every person has impacted on this country, on who we are, what we stand for, why we stay – when the world today is so small we could live anywhere, but chose to live here. Why is that?

So the project fellow poets, is to share your great Australian dream with your mates – be it serious, funny, sad or happy. If winning Lotto ticks your boxes this Tuesdays is a big one. If catching big fish has got you hooked, share your fishing dreams tell us your angle. Dream of being on Dancing with the Stars? Waltz that dream past us .

Over to you – get those chipolata fingers fumbling the keyboard, put your thoughts on the forum
and who knows there just might be a great, earth moving, never to be forgotten and highly lauded poem come out of it. Dream on

Cheers

Maureen