'The Past' - Oodgeroo Noonuccal (The Dawn is at Hand 1992) and Be Advised - Geoff Page

 
                                             Let no one say the past is dead
                                             The past is all about us and within.
                                             Haunted by tribal memories, I know
                                             This little now, this accidental present
                                             Is not all of me, whose long making
                                             Is so much of the past.
                                              ...
                                             Let none tell me the past is wholly gone.
                                             Now is so small a part of time, so small a part
                                             Of all the race years that have moulded me.

                                                                                                                    Oodgeroo  Noonuccal



                                             Be Advised
                                             You smoochy duos,
                                             I'm not sipping
                                             here alone.
                                            Solitude is
                                            not a danger
                                            when tapping on one's
                                           mobile phone.

                                          My friends encircle me on Twitter,
                                          Facebook and
                                          on Instagram.
                                          Like Descartes, I
                                          do not grow bitter,
                                         "I text," he pecked,
                                         "therefore I am."

                                                                                                         Geoff  Page