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Garry Robert McDougall
Goodreads Author
Born
Sydney, Australia
Website
Genre
Influences
Rabelais, E Smart, G Elliot, Hemingway, Homer, K Vonnegut, E. Zola, St
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Member Since
March 2013
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Belonging: A Place in the World
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2012
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2 editions
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Heritage Walks in New South Wales
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1993
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2 editions
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Pilgrimage (#1 Meeting France and Spain's Pilgrim Towns)
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2013
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2020
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Pilgrimage (#3 Meeting France and Spain's Pilgrim Towns)
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2013
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Pilgrimage #2
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2013
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Pilgrimage Five
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2013
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Journey to the Ardeche
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2014
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Along the Way
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2014
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Inner Flash
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2015
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Towns as Inspiration
I've written poems, short stories and even novels inspired by visits to towns in Australia, France and Spain. And I don't know why. It began when I led a tour on the Camino de Santiago in 2002, driving to Belorado. I was enchanted by the town's annual festival, incredibly, the Festival of the Onion. a rural town. And those experiences inspired a prize-winning short story and poem.
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“Freedom is meaning earned
accepting and giving of yourself,
peddling,
peddling
climbing up hills
to peak without pique
vast vista before you
exciting, frightening,
hopes on every horizon
knowing,
on reflection,
where next to go,
what next to do
with others.”
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accepting and giving of yourself,
peddling,
peddling
climbing up hills
to peak without pique
vast vista before you
exciting, frightening,
hopes on every horizon
knowing,
on reflection,
where next to go,
what next to do
with others.”
―
“Building
In Galicia's Palas de Rei,
Palas crops and gardens the passing years,
in building gaps groom and blooms stemming drear,
to landed owner's songs of gloom,
the ghosts of rooms between
plants of pardon,
people harden,
passing near.
Through the sap and gap of days
weeds and fungi hold fast the locks,
abandoned smock and broken chair
to carpet night, darkness times
the fevered lovers entwined as vines,
to plants of pardon, plants of garden,
tender near.
Another clock, another block, another fear,
twisted roads, leering lanes known by ear,
builder turns the soil with spades and hearts,
planting seeds for next the diamond days,
to plants of pardon, plants of garden,
lime and lemon harvest near.
Conceding folly, town so jolly when pilgrims here,
bodies, packs and lasting shells sincere,
to alberge heating, rise and fall the mugs of beer,
to children playing 'Tomorrow' riding near
plants of pardon, plants of garden,
building here.”
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In Galicia's Palas de Rei,
Palas crops and gardens the passing years,
in building gaps groom and blooms stemming drear,
to landed owner's songs of gloom,
the ghosts of rooms between
plants of pardon,
people harden,
passing near.
Through the sap and gap of days
weeds and fungi hold fast the locks,
abandoned smock and broken chair
to carpet night, darkness times
the fevered lovers entwined as vines,
to plants of pardon, plants of garden,
tender near.
Another clock, another block, another fear,
twisted roads, leering lanes known by ear,
builder turns the soil with spades and hearts,
planting seeds for next the diamond days,
to plants of pardon, plants of garden,
lime and lemon harvest near.
Conceding folly, town so jolly when pilgrims here,
bodies, packs and lasting shells sincere,
to alberge heating, rise and fall the mugs of beer,
to children playing 'Tomorrow' riding near
plants of pardon, plants of garden,
building here.”
―
“Building
In Galicia's Palas de Rei,
Palas crops and gardens the passing years,
in building gaps groom and blooms stemming drear,
to landed owner's songs of gloom,
the ghosts of rooms between
plants of pardon,
people harden,
passing near.
Through the sap and gap of days
weeds and fungi hold fast the locks,
abandoned smock and broken chair
to carpet night, darkness times
the fevered lovers entwined as vines,
to plants of pardon, plants of garden,
tender near.
Another clock, another block, another fear,
twisted roads, leering lanes known by ear,
builder turns the soil with spades and hearts,
planting seeds for next the diamond days,
to plants of pardon, plants of garden,
lime and lemon harvest near.
Conceding folly, town so jolly when pilgrims here,
bodies, packs and lasting shells sincere,
to alberge heating, rise and fall the mugs of beer,
to children playing 'Tomorrow' riding near
plants of pardon, plants of garden,
building here.”
―
In Galicia's Palas de Rei,
Palas crops and gardens the passing years,
in building gaps groom and blooms stemming drear,
to landed owner's songs of gloom,
the ghosts of rooms between
plants of pardon,
people harden,
passing near.
Through the sap and gap of days
weeds and fungi hold fast the locks,
abandoned smock and broken chair
to carpet night, darkness times
the fevered lovers entwined as vines,
to plants of pardon, plants of garden,
tender near.
Another clock, another block, another fear,
twisted roads, leering lanes known by ear,
builder turns the soil with spades and hearts,
planting seeds for next the diamond days,
to plants of pardon, plants of garden,
lime and lemon harvest near.
Conceding folly, town so jolly when pilgrims here,
bodies, packs and lasting shells sincere,
to alberge heating, rise and fall the mugs of beer,
to children playing 'Tomorrow' riding near
plants of pardon, plants of garden,
building here.”
―
“Freedom is meaning earned
accepting and giving of yourself,
peddling,
peddling
climbing up hills
to peak without pique
vast vista before you
exciting, frightening,
hopes on every horizon
knowing,
on reflection,
where next to go,
what next to do
with others.”
―
accepting and giving of yourself,
peddling,
peddling
climbing up hills
to peak without pique
vast vista before you
exciting, frightening,
hopes on every horizon
knowing,
on reflection,
where next to go,
what next to do
with others.”
―
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Garry has facebook pages for Belonging, Forgetting and Remembering, Pilgrimage France and Spain, Hugo The Poet, Knowing Simone and Blacksmith & Canon.All his poetica is found at Smathwords. Some are free.
