It’s April of 2021 and Day 01 of the A to Z challenge. This year, I am doing the theme – “Travel the World.” I am visiting countries from A to Z and presenting stories with 8 line poems.
Day 01 Country: Australia
Aboriginal Australians, the world’s oldest living culture, offer to explore art, spirituality, culture, history, dance, etc. I am selecting their art forms for my post. Australia’s aboriginal art is one of the oldest unbroken traditions of art in the world. The aboriginal art includes several kinds like rock painting, rock carving, dot painting, engravings, paintings from bark, painting on leaves, sand painting, carvings, art via sculptures, weaving, string art, etc.
As I browse through several arts, I could see that they all have a story to tell. A lesson to learn. An experience to capture for a lifetime. Presented below is one of such paintings on a rock.

Poem:
Stories of mud,
Stories of blood,
The intricate relationships,
From earth to sky,
The way you connect,
To you and world,
One, different, many,
Many, same, one.
It’s the journey of realizing that all the many stories we live are all the one; we, attempting to understand nature.
My special area of study for M.Phil was Australian Aboriginal Women’s Literature, found this nostalgic. Here from atoz https://poojapriyamvada.blogspot.com/2021/04/anteayer-newnormal-a2z.html
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Oh, woow! That’s amazing. So glad to hear that and that must be an interesting thesis. Thank you so much for adding your thoughts. 😀
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Isn’t amazing how poetry can help express deep ideas? Great post and awesome poem!
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True. 😀
Many thank you. 😀
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A great start to this year’s challenge thus far!
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Thanks a lot. 😀
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Most welcome!
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WOW! You’ve come out of the ‘starting gate’ of “A to Z” challenge running Prakash!
The phot & your poem are fabulous!! Well done my friend.
Sherri-Ellen & **purrss** BellaDharma
(P.S.: I read your poems to her)
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Thank you so much. 😀
aww. that’s sweet.
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BellaDharma likes hearing your poetry Prakash…she is a cat of good taste! 😉
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😀 Yay. ❤
How happy to hear that. purrs
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BellaDharma is one funny an quirky kitty girl….she even writes the occasional poem Prakash! 😉
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oh, wow! That is cool
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