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Joan Rolls
Member since October 2, 2015
Member for 10 years, 8 months
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Secret heart (1973)
Clouds of memories drifting by
Shadows of grief like ravens fly.
My secret heart is calling you
Crying out for a love that's true.
We spoke of love and warm desires
Two lost hearts fused by eternal fires.
Soon all my fears were turned to tears
My secret heart calls through the years.
When sunny days have turned to rain
And all that's left is dark, dull pain
I run from life and wish to die
We'll run together, you and I
Joan Rolls’s timeline
- October 2025
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02 ThuAnniversary
10 years of membership
- October 2020
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02 FriAnniversary
5 years of membership
- November 2017
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20 MonReceived a critique
on Secret heart (1973) from @Sparrow
"Jayne has not been very well for a few years now and is quite a worry to myself as there is nothing we can do being on this side of the world. Unlike you I couldn't stay with that one special person all those years ago…" -
19 SunReceived a critique
on Secret heart (1973) from @Sparrow
"I can equate with your loves memory, mind you I was a little older than 17 and the year was 1978, as you, they still walk with me in different guises, when a sadness overpowers, or a fleeting glimpse of someone, the mem…" -
19 SunReceived a critique
on Secret heart (1973) from @Marvel Godwyn
"A beautifully crafted poem depicting once sweet love gone sour. Nice rhymes too. Thanks for sharing Joan Rolls." -
19 Sun
- October 2016
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02 SunAnniversary
One year of membership
- September 2016
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07 Wed
- January 2016
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17 Sun
- October 2015
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15 ThuHighest posting month
October 2015 — 6 poems
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06 Tue
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04 SunFirst critique offered
on "Cursed? " (since unpublished) by @ThEdges
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03 SatFirst publication
Free Spririt
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02 FriJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
60 year old female living near the beautiful Myall Lakes NSW. I used to write, draw, paint and dream a lot in my youth. The realities of life got in the way and in the process of surviving I misplaced my creative self. So I guess by joining Neopoet I'm hoping to recapture that piece of self lost long ago. I haven't written for over thirty years now, so I guess I'll have to start off with the words of my youth, however immature and naïve they may be!
Location: myall lakes australia, AUS
Favorite Poets
The lyrics of songs inspire me most these days
Bob Dylan
Paul Kelly and Pink Floyd mostly.
Nature and children are also a huge inspiration!
Recent Work
Secret heart (1973)
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Winter blues
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JOEY Terza Rima workshop
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Hobie (double ballade workshop)
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Carpe Diem (Ballade Workshop)
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The Drummer
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Paper Faces
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domestic loneliness
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Bush Dawn
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Alethea's Fairies (1980)
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Contest Wins
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Workshops
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| Poets first poems | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2017-06-23 | Concluded |
| Three classic poetic forms. | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2016-01-14 | Concluded |
| Storytelling in Verse (sempiternal): The Ballade | (syllabus) | Shark Pool | Started 2015-11-01 | Concluded |
| The Minnow’s Shop (Beginner’s Workshop) | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2015-10-16 | Concluded |