Botanica
Botanica written by: Peter Lloyd A warm wind blows the autumn leaves, Swirling around us. I look...
Peter Lloyd
Started writing poetry when I was fifteen and did so for few years. Have just started writing again recently.....Born in Ipswich, QLD...1952 and moved around a bit as my farther was in the RAAF.. We settled in Albury, NSW when he became a teacher. Left home when I was fifteen and moved to Sydney. My first rental was a bed-sit in Kings Cross.. worked as Display Artist in Grace Bros, Broadway. Most of my new friends there were aspiring actors and I helped out backstage...They were exciting times. 1969 in the Cross.. Hair was on ...it was a big R and R destination for many US servicemen wanting time out of “Asia"...... I had been involved with the Anti Vietnam War movement for a couple of years and the thought of a lucky draw Conscription wasn’t appealing...roughly 50% of all Australian males age 20 were called up and half of those did a tour of duty in Vietnam......So I went to Kathmandu instead of Khao San....had my nineteenth birthday there....travelled for the eight years before arriving in Cygnet, Tasmania with my partner and two young boys...writing needs discipline.
