Zoe Buhler
...Good news Zoe, charges dropped drongo
Coppers had to stop, rules aren't laws
Wrongs just that..Love you darl; thats where
I'm at, you did Ballarat an honour.' By being
True against the bother, y...
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Categories:
ballarat, appreciation, blessing, confidence, discrimination,
Form: Narrative
The Eureka Stockade
...The Bard stopped at Footscray
on the road to Ballarat
he was researching The Eureka Stockade
not Romeo and Juliet
he imagined the miners
manning the barricades
police bullets flying
hoisting T...
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Categories:
ballarat, life,
Form: Free verse
Eucalypts and Bergamot
...I wasn't born
in Ballarat
or Bendigo
Rome wasn't close
I was born
near Reggio Calabria
many eons ago....
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Categories:
ballarat, life,
Form: Free verse
The Giant Hat
...Wacko Jack from Ballarat
Built the most enormous hat,
Made of canvas with a great big brim,
Three storeys tall with a velvet trim.
Some dogs howled, while babies cried
When they saw Jack's hat...
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Categories:
ballarat, children, funny,
Form: Rhyme