Best Shearer Poems
Below are the all-time best Shearer poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of shearer poems written by PoetrySoup members
Waltzing ShearerWaltzing 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
Now With Increasing Darkness O'ErheadNow 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
Beware of Such FolkI 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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Categories:
shearer, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
The Battle of the Shearing ShedRonald 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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Categories:
shearer, adventure, animals, funny, imaginationold,
Form:
Rhyme
Australia As I Knew ItBy 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 ReliefIn 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
A Christmas In HalifaxCome 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 YearsRemember 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
Balder Than An AlderClyde 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 BelovedAll 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
Categories:
shearer, adventurefire, fire,
Form:
Rhyme
Mother 1I 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 PlonkingDirranbandi 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 RiverlandThere 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