Theres a film to make Mel'
...Hi'ya Mel g'day n such.' i tip me Akubra mate; you've achieved so bloody much.!
An I'm looking at Hoody; at the legend that he's forged.'
Along with 'our Jhonny'
They've fought battles right acros...
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Categories:
akubra, appreciation, courage, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
tell her you saw me
...
tell her you saw me ...
tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape during a gale, much too close to the rocks … tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges, its roar far too loud for me to hear...
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Categories:
akubra, adventure, analogy, anxiety, break
Form: Epic
The Life For Me
...For far shires beyond the western red sun
I’m leaving the Land of the Long White Cloud -
to journey across the far horizon
where cockatoos in bloodwoods sing aloud.
Trading in my black si...
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Categories:
akubra, journey, leaving,
Form: Sonnet
Tell Her You Saw Me
...Tell her you saw me ...
Tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape
during a gale, much too close to the rocks.
Tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges,
its roar far too loud for me to hear...
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Categories:
akubra, allegory, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Troll
...
"Troll"
The silent
incessant chatter
thick black ooze
jeers and laughter
jolt lightening barbs
slicing a heart in two
the dark undercur...
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Categories:
akubra, abuse, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Rooboy
...ROOBOY
Between the spinifex and gibber, across the dry, hot sand,
Lenny sits as proud as punch with the leather straps in hand,
His roo it has a saddle and a bit between its teeth,
When he want...
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Categories:
akubra, animal, children, funny,
Form: Lyric
Australia As I Knew It
...By Robert (Bob) Moore (©2015)
The gun shearer has gone now, like many other things
the shearing sheds are empty, and wools no longer king
gone now like the drover, and the brumbie on the plains
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Categories:
akubra, identity, memory, people, western,
Form: Rhyme
Living the Loving Life of a Farmer
...A steady blanket of funereal rain fell for days,
From the wintry heaven, onto the ground.
And by about three in the morning I was woken by
A screaming pleading sort of sound.
I had clumsy boots...
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Categories:
akubra, farm, growth, love,
Form: Quatrain
God Bless the Tourists
...Bloody streuth look out mate here they come
The Tourists Downunder to have some fun
Clickin’ their cameras, looking goggle eyed
While out in the hot sun getting deep fried
Askin’ for service and ...
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Categories:
akubra, satire, old, image, old,
Form: Rhyme
Boris the Wombat
...Boris the wombat was very fat
So fat in fact
That he had to sit back on his hind legs
Just like a dog when he begs
His best friend was called Pat, the wombat in the Akubra hat
One day Boris an...
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Categories:
akubra, animals, funny, happiness, nature,
Form: Rhyme
A Bush Walk
...On a clear day, under a blue sky
My friends and I
Decided to go for a picnic lunch
So we headed out with a basket full of yummy
Things to munch on
The walk was long
But we were having fun
Warm...
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Categories:
akubra, funny, nature, people, places,
Form: Rhyme