Philomena van Rijswijk[philomena]

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Just Friends Is Killing Me :
Poetry 2011-07-31 (3302 -1 hits)

The Agony in the Garden :
Poetry 2011-07-26 (3344 -1 hits)

The Moon Wakes Me :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (3440 -1 hits)

What This Emptiness Is Like :
Poetry 2011-07-25 (3155 -1 hits)

Remember When It Snowed? :
Poetry 2011-05-08 (3445 -1 hits)

Mourning in Sepia :
Poetry 2011-05-07 (5540 -1 hits)

And a White Flower :
Poetry 2011-04-29 (3564 -1 hits)

Victim :
Poetry 2011-04-16 (3976 -1 hits)

Man's Best Friend :
Poetry 2011-04-15 (3604 -1 hits)

This Leviathan Called Love :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (3445 -1 hits)

Sestina for Autumn :
Poetry 2011-04-08 (3305 -1 hits)

Sssh...hisss... :
Poetry 2011-02-18 (3054 -1 hits)

The First Words I Ever Heard :
Poetry 2011-02-03 (3243 -1 hits)

Rope Burns :
Poetry 2011-02-02 (5671 -1 hits)

Sweet Week :
Poetry 2011-02-01 (3429 -1 hits)

This is how love comes... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2970 -1 hits)

Rest here, Heart... :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (2907 -1 hits)

Botany Lesson :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (3592 -1 hits)

Google Earth :
Poetry 2011-01-22 (3256 -1 hits)

Time's a Wild Thing :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (3552 -1 hits)

Xylem and Phloem :
Poetry 2010-12-26 (4596 -1 hits)

First Rain : (Sorrow ties firshermen's knots in my hands...)
Poetry 2010-12-19 (4064 -1 hits)

Beautiful Corpse :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3451 -1 hits)

O! brave bird! :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3177 -1 hits)

Mouth-to-mouth :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3162 -1 hits)

Morning's Lazy Passion :
Poetry 2010-12-19 (3581 -1 hits)

Sunnybrook :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (3626 -1 hits)

Even the Sweepers :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (3528 -1 hits)

Snake Gully Sunday :
Poetry 2010-11-20 (3730 -1 hits)

Skepticos :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3600 -1 hits)

Trail of Bones and Godstones :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (4091 -1 hits)

The Water-Woman :
Poetry 2010-11-19 (3918 -1 hits)

This Disorderly Goddess :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (3395 -1 hits)

The Real Rooms of My House :
Poetry 2010-11-12 (3330 -1 hits)

Oh! :
Poetry 2010-10-29 (3946 -1 hits)

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OffTOPIC ...unexpected seasons in another sweeter place...

OffTOPIC If you have ever waited for a train....

OffTOPIC ...thinking a lot about someone who wasn't there....

OffTOPIC I emailed this poem....

OffTOPIC ...probably the first erotic poem I ever wrote...

OffTOPIC Inspired by Marx or "Backyard Bee-keeping" ?

OffTOPIC ..the work of sun and salt and the passage of time...

OffTOPIC From "Trail of Bones and Godstones"

Thanks, Ada...

Thanks, Motoc...

Thankyou Anca and Corina...

Thankyou, my dear readers....Thankyou so much....

There's also some physics, botany, geography.......

Thanks for your input!

Thanks for your interest...I'm finding it difficult to work out how to make a c

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Biography Philomena van Rijswijk

Philomena van Rijswijk is a poet, novelist and story-writer living in Tasmania. Her most recent novel, "The World as a Clockface", was published by Penguin. Her poems and short stories have been published in collections and literary journals in Australia, Ireland and India. Her work was included in "Best Australian Stories 2002" (Black Inc) and "Best Australian Poetry 2005" (UQP). Some of her stories have been translated into Hindi by Dr Aruna Sitesh and Dr Sitesh Aloke. One of the translated stories, "Shalimar Ke Bagh", was recently published in Sakshaktar (Sahity Academy).