POEM OF THE MONTH

ETERNITY

By Anne

Too late to say,I love you,

When the light shadows fall.

The still night vibrant with the tang of spring

     Makes longings small.  

   Did I once love you?

Did I seek in vain?

The earth that calls me, overshadows all.

Did your dark eyes once draw me

As a bow

Draws music from a violin?

I have forgotten all but being kin

To haunting dusty silences

That supplicate

The tableau of the overshaded sky;

The swell of orange-blossom sent

Unmoving bathes the vibrant silences

Deep-blent in earth,and all the earth of me.

The long-repeated cool,dry summer nights

The little vestige of eternity

That merges youth and age,

The backdrop for the crystal pageantry

Of all small sounds,

Far-carried near and clear.

The handclasp of today and yesteryear,

The flicked-back page

Now yesterdays,tomorrows and todays,

Filling the little shells of you and me,

Diverse,untouching,in the mystery

Of timelessness that overshadows need

Of liitle love,dwarfed by infinity.

IMPORTANT NOTICE!

The NOVEL Group meeting this Saturday
26th March 2011 has been cancelled.

Our next meeting is on the 9th of April 2011
Anthology meeting at 9.30am

Exercise meeting at 10.30am

TEMPORARY VENUE:

Yeronga Services Club Inc

Cnr Fairfield Rd & Kadumba St,

Yeronga QLD 4104

QUOTE OF THE MONTH

If God gives you something you can do,why in God's name wouldn't you do it?
Stephen King-Writer

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NEXT FWG MEETINGS

Next Meetings

12th of March 2011Anthology Group: 9.30am to 10.30amExercise Group: 10.30am -12:00approx

26th of March 2011Novel/Short Story Group:10.30-12.00 approx TEMPORARY VENUE:  Yeronga Services Club Inc Cnr Fairfield Rd & Kadumba St,Yeronga QLD 4104

COMPETITIONS

The Reason-Brisbane Poetry Prize  

Closing date: 27 May 2011

This is the competition's eighth year and it is open to budding and established writers across Australia. Open theme. Prizes: 1st $1500, 2nd $500, 3rd $300. Melbourne-based poet, Petra White will judge the entries and winners will be announced in The Australian newspaper on 24 June 2011. For guidelines, see http://www.daylesfordonline.com/poetryprizesend a SSAE to Rules, PO Box 545, Daylesford, VIC 3460.

Poetry Entry Guidelines

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NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2011

Fairfield Writers Group

Minutes of the Exercise Group

12 February 2011

Present: Carol, Wendy, Anna, Helga, Vera, Lou, Findlay, Lisa, Anne, Lorraine and Jennifer.

Apologies: Maarten and Dani.
Meeting chaired by Anna



1. Positions Filled

Minute taker - role will rotate each meeting; attendee keeps notes; to be emailed to Anna for distribution / upload to blog
Chair – Anna
Blog – Anna
Media - Lou and Findlay
Facebook / Twitter - TBC. Dani was nominated but not in attendance at meeting
A state of writing group administrator - Lou
Secretary - Anna
Treasurer - Carol
Graphics - Helga
Librarian - Jennifer as rep; Lorraine as back up
Role includes homework exercises kept collated, compendium on google docs from martin; have a list of hard copy resources in FWG available; Anna to share blog logon to Jennifer.

2. Set exercise for April
Exercise for April-Lou.
Exercises available - Carol to email Anna to distribute copies – this was unexpected but a pleasant surprise

3. Meeting Room Update
Yeronga Services Club until further notice.
Anna to follow up with library on design of the refit to include a quiet space for meetings

4. Workshops
Lou to email contact at BCC to see if they would be a guest speaker for indicatively a June / July meeting with the anthology team
They were involved in the project management of the One Book Many Brisbanes 4th edition

5. Youth Group Update
Martin's Idea originally; he is not coming to FWG at this stage.
Group aimed at 18 - 25 years where we act as mentors; concerns that 18-25 years is not an age group for a youth group.
There was some concern by some of the submissions from previous interested youth group potentials - style/content issue.
There is interest (Lou and Anna) to have the Youth Group concept with the FWG
Decision - to be discussed at October Meeting in conjunction with year planning; discussion to include future of this idea; further scoping.

6. Contacts List
Phone and Email collected by Lou; to send to Anna.

7. Member suggestions
New idea from Lisa –
FWG produce a children's book as a future project.
To be discussed at the October meeting.

Lou

Fairfield Writers Group

Minutes of the Novel Group

26 February 2011

Present: Helga, Maarten and Anna.

We had a quiet but thought provoking turn out. Helga and Anna brought poems to share with the group.
Maarten provided great feedback in how to write poetry.
It was a great opportunity to share ideas on how to improve on our anthology stories.

Anna

Next meetings:

26 February – Novel/short story Group

12 March –Exercise Group