A Hint of Eden

By Paul Williamson

'Williamson presents great images and plays so well with colour in this manuscript. His environmental poems shine with naked engagement.' - Les Wicks

A new collection from the author of Ties to Red Hill, Edge of Southern Bright, To the Spice Islands, Moments from Red Hill and The DNA Bookshelf.<

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debbie Lee
• Release date: Nov 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781761091971

Paul Williamson

Paul was born and brought up in Australia, spending time in Bathurst, Broken Hill, and Sydney. From an early age, he was very attracted to alternative lifestyles and religion. In his twenties, Paul left Australia, travelled through Europe, and spent four-and-a-half years living at NewBold House, within the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. In 1988, Paul trained in Past Life Therapy and Hypnotherapy, and has since studied with Dr. Roger Woolger and the Newton Institute. Presently, Paul travels between the UK and Australia with his work. He has been married twice and has four lovely children. The inspiration for this book has come from a past-life regression that Paul had for himself. This is the sixth book that he has had published. Paul can be contacted via his web site at www.soulhypnotherapy.com.

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A Hint of Eden

A Hint of Eden

Paul Williamson

Ginninderra Press

A Hint of Eden

ISBN 978 1 76109 197 1

Copyright © text Paul Williamson 2021

Cover image: Janet Sweeney – Murray River, Corowa, NSW

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First published 2021 by

Ginninderra Press

PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015

www.ginninderrapress.com.au

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Contents

Beginnings

On City Streets

Along the Way

People on the Journey

Breezes in the Trees

The Circle

Acknowledgements

Also by Paul Williamson

Beginnings

A Hint of Eden

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At the coastal edge south of Batemans Bay

humpback whales feed and breech in springtime

as fishing fleets work cobalt depths

filling stores and markets with technicolour catches

and oyster farms stretch on light turquoise

near mangrove flats and sandy bays.

In summer, storms send racing yachts limping to port

and grind beaches from rock faces.

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Onshore below the misty escarpment clothed with bush

near Moruya, Bodalla, Narooma and Bermagui

dairy herds gift cream for cheese

beef cattle fatten, sheep give wool

log-laden trucks rattle the highway

artists work and diversely create

hippies sell in startling colour

retirees and Centrelink customers settle seaside

as tourism firms the towns.

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The Yuin Nation Salt Water people remain

but not now in cool-fired hunting landscapes.

Now summer brings hot blazes to eucalypts

crowded by casuarinas, vines and wattle.

Yet in the early autumn after the summer tourist frenzy

the coastal strip still conjures thoughts of Eden.

Chances

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Revolution in America redirected British convicts

sent them here to start the new colony.

Settlers and merchants came in wind driven hope.

Scottish crofters fled starvation.

Potato famine launched migrants from Ireland.

Fevered American, Chinese and European miners

rushed for gold and built this nation.

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More migrants came from the rubble of war in Europe;

some were ten-pound Poms.

Hunger sent farmers from Greece and Italy.

A lost war in Vietnam launched boat people.

Now religious fighting drives the weary from the Middle East.

Opportunity draws the skilled to settle

and families reunite.

Golden Surge

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The town grew fast and crowded

on easy nuggets

grasped and cashed for red-brick

merchant buildings, official stone;

shops and homes near mine shafts.

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Slab huts close to diggings sheltered new arrivals

as the population surged at Ballarat.

Chinatown with its colourful shops

grew on the margin.

Soldiers were billeted in canvas tents.

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