Photograph of Gap Filler project 20 (27)

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Gap Filler and Poetica's "Instant Poetry" wall on Colombo Street. One of Shakespeare's sonnets has been painted on the mural as well as a blackboard. Members of the public are encouraged to add their poems to the blackboard.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 20 (39)

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A poem written on Gap Filler and Poetica's "Instant Poetry" wall on Colombo Street. The poem reads, "A city's more than buildings, and a city's more than steeples. A city's a population, family, friends and people. I will come back, to my English rose".

Photograph of Gap Filler project 20 (17)

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A poem written on Gap Filler and Poetica's "Instant Poetry" wall on Colombo Street. The poem reads, "Amidst the shards of glass and twisted steel, beside the fallen brick and scattered concrete, we began to understand that there is beauty in the broken. Strangers do not live here anymore". This poem was picked by the public as the favourite poem written on the wall. It was then painted permanently onto the mural.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 20 (2)

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Volunteers painting the "Instant Poetry" wall on Colombo Street.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 20 (6)

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A thank you note to Resene on the "Instant Poetry" wall. Resene donated paint for the mural.