Albany Poems - Poems about Albany

...I wrote six poems in my car on my way to school Put my phone on record, which is my general rule It only picked up about half of what I said I am irritated now, for these were the best in my head ......Read the rest...

...Yes, Jose, this is another love letter from anthroprivileged me to LeftBrain dominant you for multicultural us. I'm still here sinking into my deep blue camp chair with feet resting on a wea......Read the rest...

...'Georgia On My Mind' 'Hit the Road Jack' 'What'd I Say' Musing through rhythm Seeing clearly with my 'first' The 'Genius' from Albany......Read the rest...

... On white lines on valiant wheels I head north leaving behind the City of Sails with its humourless streets, its casino steel and glass Sky Tower built upon the rubble of a gran......Read the rest...

...From hills to orchard row to the Queen’s chain plume the toetoe, the ponga’s silver gild - in planted field and alluvial plain droved is the fatted calf and the earth tilled. White breast......Read the rest...

......Outside the French guns continued to screech, a blast rocked them all, and opened a breach, morale was fading, beginning to sag, the next day the French sent out a truce flag. Ned watched fr......Read the rest...

...I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the dingo’s call? It couldn’t be as all Round me were the sounds of London go......Read the rest...

...SANDS OF GALLIPOLI’S BLOOD On the sands where diggers bled As they came ashore, To fight the good fight, Puppets of a master’s whim Of loyalty to a crown of way beyond, No hesitation to join ......Read the rest...

...The line of people out the door. The queue that snaked around the floor. The building's sleek art deco style. The carpets' faded plush red pile. The "Coming Soon" in convex frames. The "Showin......Read the rest...

...We went away heaps of times, to busso, gerro, freo, york, bunbury and albany I remember most the latter and how you wrecked my bike so horribly I carried it up a hill, while you went to get the u......Read the rest...

...April 30 In Search of America 1975 – Hitch hiking Tales When I was young and foolish Broke and stubborn I hitchhiked across the USA Started in Salt Lake City Where my greyhound bus pass ......Read the rest...

...The grand, half-ruined Parthenon, once a sublime, Doric grace, Even now, in broken, stone blocks, always takes my breath away. The rich, classical detail, fluted columns without plinths, to ima......Read the rest...

...Back in seventeen seventy-seven, British general John Burgoyne faced hard times, despite winning at Hubbardton, and Fort Anne, supplies were getting very hard to find. When word came that Gener......Read the rest...

...Next day A beautiful woman Drove me to near Chicago In a red mustang Might have been The girl in the song Took it easy Digging her vibe She invited home But was not sure If h......Read the rest...

...II. Days passed slowly, Amos didn’t return, Mary Bairns now had to reasons to weep. Her son was gone, there could be no mistake, and her daughter, half-mad, didn’t sleep. She packed up their......Read the rest...