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Best Shearer Poems

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Waltzing Shearer
Waltzing Shearer

Out near Dagworth Station during 1894
Where the Waltzing Matilda, Swagman drowned,
Cos he liked them lamb chops nicely browned,
He was only eating the Masters sheep,...

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Categories: shearer, adventure, death, death,
Form: Ballade



The Chocolate Cake
“And you call yourself a bloody cook”, this mongrel shearer said.
“I oughta ram this rubbish down yer’ throat, it’ll kill a bloke stone dead.”
He’s talking...

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Categories: shearer, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Now With Increasing Darkness O'Erhead
Now With Increasing Darkness O'erhead

Bleating at the rain, the despondent sheep
Their days and nights aching in blinded sleep;
Til masters, their dominated lives take
With true evil,...

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Categories: shearer, art, betrayal, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beware of Such Folk
I used to be a dreamer
until I fell for a dream crusher 

I used to be very optimistic
until I met  miss negative 

I used...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shearer, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Battle of the Shearing Shed
Ronald was a tough old ram, the biggest of his breed
Daniel was a clipperman, renowned of shearing deed
Many sheep were sheared that day and woolless...

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© Lee Leon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shearer, adventure, animals, funny, imaginationold,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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...

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Categories: shearer, identity, memory, people, western,
Form: Rhyme
The Tree of Relief
In a land of endless saltbush stretching miles across the plains
Of western New South Wales where it rarely ever rains,
And the temperature is searing on...

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Categories: shearer, animal, dog, humor, ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Christmas In Halifax
Come visit us under pink tinged twilight skies..
among boughs borne under a song laden tree. 
In fair view of land, meadows green coiling rise,
one hundred...

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Categories: shearer, christmas, grave, journey, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Jamaica Jubilee Years
Remember it just like yesterday 
'Twas the sixth of August, independence day
Manley called the election, Busta took the drive
New nation at UN assembly, Jamaica arrived
Topsy...

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Categories: shearer, anniversary, business,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Balder Than An Alder
Clyde was shocked when he looked in the mirror

   His plight he noted clearer and clearer

      He was...

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Categories: shearer, funny,
Form: Limerick
A Poet To His Beloved
All the praises you pick along the streets
Go confirm before a new-bought mirror,
And if those rare glories you all find true
Then know she’s near that...

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Categories: shearer, love,
Form: Verse
A Phosphorus Attack
A phosphorus attack
                      ...

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Categories: shearer, adventurefire, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Mother 1
I could recall some years ago
The day that sealed the  deeds of the deal
And dot the long journey  of nine months
In my calendar...

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Categories: shearer, baby, childhood, love, mother,
Form: Verse
Dirranbandi Plonking
Dirranbandi  plonking

27Australians and a shearer came to bash Bronco Don in 1945
He was just back from Kokoda killing Japs to stay alive
Some carried beer...

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Categories: shearer, adventureold, old,
Form: Rhyme
The Story of Possum, Legend of the Riverland
There is a story from Renmark in the Riverland
Of a man in the bush as his legend began
He was a shearer from New Zealand in...

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Categories: shearer, community, life,
Form: Ballad

Book: Shattered Sighs