Best Sydney Poems
Categories:
sydney, abuse, anger, angst,
Form:
Haiku
Walking On Sydney Harbour Bridgesteel beams
reach across space
poised
seas moving beneath sound
the salty breath-test of time...
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Categories:
sydney, life, strength, time,
Form:
Tanka
Memories of the Sydney TramMemories Of The Sydney Tram
This fabulous road transport vehicle had it's humble beginnings
in the 1880s, were horses pulled the double-decker trams along
the various streets of Sydney, they moved pretty slow and the
people wanted to move at a much faster pace.
Soon to follow was the steam...
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Categories:
sydney, history,
Form:
Narrative
Sydney, My AngelWhispered breaths, gentle breeze, blushing hearts of sanguine hue
Wings aflutter of gossamer lace, pure, gentle, delicate and true
Luminous lucence, crystalline glow, soft translucence and heavenly bloom
Beautiful glimmer in radiant sweetness, all the splendor that is you...
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Categories:
sydney, angel, daughter, flower, innocence,
Form:
Quatrain
My SydneyMy Sydney,
From here to eternity,
You are my savior, my sanctity.
When my soul was shadowed
You were rendered hallowed.
Lending me strength to fight
By being my beacon, my guiding light
Within my inner battle so stark,
One abysmally abhorrent and dismally dark.
Silhouetted in your shining radiance,
You beautifully beckoned...
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Categories:
sydney, love,
Form:
Rhyme
SydneyLying on a beach in Sydney,
scorched and sore in the dry heat,
the sand burns my toes.
I wander back to drizzly days in Leitrim,
when I paddled in my wellingtons
in puddles on the farm where I grew up.
Here rain seldom falls,
and only in quick downpours,
I long...
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Categories:
sydney, absence, adventure, angst, body,
Form:
Free verse
SydneyThe ship has docked in Sydney harbour officials
have come and gone now the ship is eerily silent,
yet noisy slamming of doors and someone taking
a shower…laughter. How can I sleep tonight with
the engine stopped? How can I read and not hear
human bravura? Sod...
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Categories:
sydney, adventure, parody, sea,
Form:
Blank verse
Sydney Opera HouseJorn Utzon received the Pritzker Architecture Prize for his masterpiece
Sydney Opera House is famous the world over, maybe in space too
Her shells are recognizable by millions, even I, who have never been
fabulous place opened in 1973, she hosts visitors from every country
Her performing arts center...
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Categories:
sydney, travel,
Form:
Prose
Aussie Cruiser SydneyOUR TIN POT NAVY so THEY SAID in 1914 Sydney in the first World War 1
In 1914 German cruisers were cut loose
and Emden she was one…………….…(fired 38lb shells)
the Indian ocean she did for hunting choose
and 9 ships were sunk by gun…….
Then she sailed and...
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Categories:
sydney, war, war, world, war,
Form:
Rhyme
SydneyLying on a beach in Sydney,
scorched and sore in the dry heat,
the sand burns my toes.
I wander back to drizzly days in Leitrim,
when I paddled in my wellingtons
in puddles on the farm where I grew up.
Here rain seldom falls,
and only in quick downpours,
I long...
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Categories:
sydney, absence, adventure, angst, body,
Form:
Free verse
The Mouse In the Sydney Opera House Nursery RhymeIn the Opera house
Is a tiny little mouse,
Everybody knows
Of the tiny little mouse,
The tiny little mouse in the
Opera house!
He watches all the shows
Sings all highs and lows,
Everybody knows-
He likes to play banjos,
The tiny little mouse in the
Opera house!!
The tiny little mouse
Is a superstar,
Everybody...
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Categories:
sydney, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
Sydney Airport In Twenty ElevenSydney airport in twenty eleven
On route to help Scots go to heaven
My son Jeremy at six foot two
Cricketer Athlete and rugby man too
Big tough man with sense of humour
Loves whats real and hates wrong rumour
Standing there to wave goodbye
Stares at me and starts to...
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Categories:
sydney, christian, heaven, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Observations From the Aft Window of the Port Side of Port Aux Basques To Sydney Ferry• young couple, fit male brown hair and glasses with toned blond female taking multiple selfies as ferry leaves Newfoundland
• middle aged blond woman- multiple selfies - all angles
• young tattooed dude chatting to unseen companions while smoking cigarettes
• older balding male looks longingly at vanishing shore
• young blond...
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Categories:
sydney, travel,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sydney InmatesSydney Inmates
Two inmates in Sydney had planned in advance
Hidden the bed sheets when they had a chance
Tied them together in a 60 foot length
Made sure they were tight and had enough strength
They planned the escape through their window it seems
And then over a wall by...
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Categories:
sydney, people, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
sydney, beauty, celebration,
Form:
Rictameter