Down Under
...Kangaroos bounce lower
for tis the season
some roo laze on their backs
smoke electric cigarettes
Green moments
are discovered in Antarctica
Give your thanks America
give us your huddled elves
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Categories:
billabongs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bunyip
...Bunyip
Early settlers heard its screams
Lurking in billabongs, creeks and streams
A myth or real that question remains
Indigenous folklore further explains
Perhaps a cultural memory of an an...
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Categories:
billabongs, dream, myth,
Form: Rhyme
By the Murray River
...By the Murray
is far from
By the lake
The Murray
has its own sound
as it meanders
across gravel runs
billabongs
bends galore
tonight will be cold
so the fire is prepped
7 sheets of cru...
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Categories:
billabongs, culture,
Form: Free verse
Menu a Or Menu B Is Quite a Dashing Dilemma
...Menu A or Menu B ? oh dear! quite a dilemma really. ha
Tadpoles induced symphonies in a bowl of custard cued. But cued is neither curd nor carved caverns catering cafés. Cafés cage craterous caref...
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Categories:
billabongs, autumn,
Form: I do not know?
Promises For An Unknown Love
...I am dreaming of you tonight,
though we may never meet
but if we do, you will know me
by my hyacinth shoes.
You will remember me in the pale blooms
that float on
billabongs or ponds
I wil...
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Categories:
billabongs, dream, fantasy, hope, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Carpet of Colour
...The long years are harsh where the hot sun does burn
on the sand hills and plains when seasons won’t turn
where saltbush and samphire do somehow survive
and through these hot days there seems litt...
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Categories:
billabongs, earth, environment, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
To Becky With Love
...Blinky Bill, and the wonder of all fairy tales
Snuggle Pot and Cuddle Pie and Hump Back Whales
Vegemite, ice cream, and violent crumble bars
Waltzing Matilda and The Southern Cross stars
The outb...
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Categories:
billabongs, children, hope, easter, life,
Form: Rhyme
Memories of An Australian Childhood
...From England's dark blackout
We came to these shores
I and my siblings
In refuge from war.
How enchanted we were
With all we saw.
First Sydney's fine harbour
And her bridge of one span
Then...
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Categories:
billabongs, childhood, happiness, history, old,
Form: Narrative