Submissions of poems to be selected  in the Australian Poetry Anthology, with focus on the Northern Territory, close this week.  I am happy today as I have submitted three of my poems, one of them 'Before The Wet' .

Here's hoping one of them will be included in the anthology to be published this year -  http://www.australianpoetry.org/australian-poetry-publications/australian-poetry-anthology-2019-submissions/ "the Anthology will have a Northern Territory focus and launch – 19 May at the Olive Pink in Alice Springs as part of the NT Writers' Festival."

The Poetic Bond VIII is due to be released soon.  One of my short-listed poems is included in the anthology edited by Trevor Maynard and published by Willowdown books. I am happily awaiting The Poetic Bond VIII's  release.

I have 3 poems short listed for The Poetic Bond VIII, an anthology compiled by poet and editor Trevor Maynard - due to be published in November 2018. 

I am also compiling a book of my poetry in between my home life, travel, and visual arts efforts. My blogging has suffered but I do hope to post more often in the coming year.  

All the best in your artistic endeavours

​Lexene 

Photography has been my passion  since childhood. My first camera was a Kodak 'Brownie' which I won for a sketch which I sent to a local newspaper colouring and drawing competition. 

My book is based on  my orb photographs and its mysteries, some solved, many not.  See About Orbs page for more information on this phenomena. 

Many orbs remain a mystery to me.   I cannot bring myself  to place a label on their magic, as I can only pretend to know.  The atmosphere knows and our internals know, for their refracted reflections are there, the images are there on the camera screen - the mind is opened, transfixed in the 'now' where we find the wonder of all things, the wonder of life and its essences: A feeling of awe and inspiration comes from nature herself. Life itself.

Love and Light
​Lexene

I am continuing to write poems and hope to publish some of these in a book; as well as entering several in upcoming competitions this year.  

Inspiration has come from my travels within Australia, far away from home: the far outback, the east  coast and the desert of central Australia.  My poems also come from streams of mind in various genres; the flow of words  gathered by my pen, now to be sorted: word-stormed.

Upcoming in Darwin is the Word-storm festival. An annual event in the Northern Territory, last year held in Alice Springs.  I am looking forward to volunteering at some of the venues this coming weekend. 

​All of the best to the writers at the festival and all writers out there.

Lexene Burns
All photographs copyright Lexene Burns