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Bourke Poems - Poems about Bourke


Premium Member Out Beyond
...Out beyond The western plain A mighty river Did once run It was reputed To of started Up Killarney way They say It flowed Accouple of thousand miles South` west Down Adelaide way They say......

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Categories: bourke, river, , western,
Form: Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Sibylline
... "50 Words for Poe: Sibylline" Hush your mind In ancient Persia Her sands drift through your divination hands Through Her dark mirror......

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Categories: bourke, birth, dark, death, desire,
Form: Free verse



The Trolley Man
...He couldn’t find a place to stay So living on the street was his only way Until a Friday in Bourke Street Melbourne town A Terrorist set fire to a utility with gas bottles piled ‘round And an i......

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Categories: bourke, murder,
Form: Ballad
Gundabooka Sam
...Gundabooka Sam Old Sam squats at Gundabooka Somewhere out the back of Bourke, He lives in a shanty hut, Doesn't seem to do much work, He wears rope-held trousers And a long-john undershirt, ......

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Categories: bourke, funny,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member L'Octroi Des Droits a Jacky - Transl of Mudrooroo Narogin's They Give Jacky Rights By T Wignesan
...L’octroi des droits à Jacky – Translation of Mudroroo Narogin’s « They Give Jacky Rights » by T. Wignesan (Note : The first aboriginal writer to have achieved – according to Kevin Gilbert’s I......

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Categories: bourke, discrimination, freedom, political, race,
Form: Free verse



The Tree
...The Tree Frank Halliwell This ancient leafy giant that's endured three hundred years Seems to tremble as the chainsaw. through it's heartwood rips and tears. It stood t......

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Categories: bourke, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Traversing the Lucky Country
...Exploring the suburbs at Melbourne Glad are the late nights’ burnt Bustling Bourke Street Mall Epitome of a retail therapy’s call The archaic Flinder’s Station Scheduling warrants attention Cho-ch......

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Categories: bourke, holiday, red, kindergarten,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Grandpa Les
...Uncle Les My step grandfather was uncle Les, Gun shearer of wooly sheep, he was, Travelled the country, yes I says, and at crutching, He was beaut, false teeth of gold his mouth did hold, just......

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Categories: bourke, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Hungerford
...[ In the early 1890's, Henry Lawson tramped to Hungerford which inspired him to write a short story on his reflections. In the 1980's I was part of a team connecting Hungerford to the electri......

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Categories: bourke, life, people, places, write,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things