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Dr Monika Schott

Pinned

Dr Monika Schott

The faraway land of the house and two cows

Sewerage ghost towns. They exist. Just ask Sorrowing Father, Dear Daughter and Blackened boy, and Yankee doodle dandy that smiles with the…

Oct 17, 2021

The faraway land of the house and two cows

Oct 17, 2021

Pinned

Dr Monika Schott

To be the poet, and the poem

Giving comes easy to some. It’s a natural extension of who they are and it seems to flow from inside of them, without any thought to the…

Jan 13, 2021

To be the poet, and the poem

Jan 13, 2021

Dr Monika Schott

The three Cs

A friend recently reminded me of the power in kindness when she asked, what makes an urban area kind? My first thought was, how can an…

Aug 26, 2020

The three Cs

Aug 26, 2020

Dr Monika Schott

Without the beat of any drum

They stride and glide, tip toe in the silent sprinkle of glittering dust, sometimes soaring in whispers as delicate as a flawless feather…

Aug 19, 2020

Without the beat of any drum

Aug 19, 2020

Dr Monika Schott

Ode to an angel

‘Ode to an angel’ rounds off a collection of more than 20 short stories in a new book called, ‘These Winter Months: The Late Orphan Project…

Sep 17, 2016

Ode to an angel

Sep 17, 2016

Dr Monika Schott

The vying

A blaze of cyclonic fire, a blow torch of extreme has rampaged the Earth and scorched it bare. Nothing remains. No fragment of life exists…

Sep 3, 2016

The vying

Sep 3, 2016

Dr Monika Schott

Currents of existence

Gazing stalks tickle my trunk and wriggle into my roots. A breath on my neck whispers to let go.

Aug 19, 2016

Aug 19, 2016

Dr Monika Schott

Jelly cakes and daffodils

There’s a place where petunias and pansies in reds and blues and edged in frills of white stretch as an endless sea of pretty. Their finery…

May 6, 2016

Jelly cakes and daffodils

May 6, 2016

Dr Monika Schott

To be free and fabulous

Whip off that bra … ahhh, free and fabulous! Kick off the heels and shed the stockings …

Apr 2, 2016

To be free and fabulous

Apr 2, 2016

Dr Monika Schott

Pick-up sticks

Pick-up sticks is an all-time favourite of mine. Amazing how life mirrors that game.

Mar 18, 2016

Pick-up sticks

Mar 18, 2016

Dr Monika Schott

Dr Monika Schott

A life of ‘oh wells’ over ‘what ifs’... writer of the avant-garde; researcher of sewerage ghost towns. See more at www.monikaschott.com

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