Best Corroboree Poems
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:
corroboree, satire, old, image, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Ou Allons Nous: Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Where Are We Going By T Wignesan...Où allons nous? Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Where are we going” by T. Wignesan
Ils sont venus dans une petite ville
Une bande à moitié nue soumise silencieuse
Tout ce qui restait de......
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Categories:
corroboree, discrimination, grief, horror, prejudice,
Form:
Free verse
SURPRISE...Long, Long ago in a hut made of bark
Children awoke to a loud raptors hark,
Where misty moonlight filled the night sky
And shimmering stars twinkled up high.
They never did flinch from what th......
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Categories:
corroboree, animal, dance,
Form:
Rhyme
The Beauty...The beauty
Of
Namatjira
White haired
Bark painter's
Of fish
Wandjina
Feathered man
Full sunset
Corroboree
Pintubi
Dancers
In watercourse
Colours
Of hills
And rangers
Near Henbury
Or......
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Categories:
corroboree, art, courage, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Think I Need a Flag...Think I need a flag…
To reflect my being
Think I need a flag
For everyone sightseeing
To admire all my qualities
And individuality
A flag to tag not to brag
Though representing…
Me.
Thin......
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Categories:
corroboree, me,
Form:
Rhyme
I Saw a Whale Today...You said that I should see a whale -
a giant from the southern seas
swimming song-lines up the coast,
and so I came on board your boat
to wait and look.
You told me humpbacks follow
ancient ......
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Categories:
corroboree, animal, ocean, sea,
Form:
Free verse