The Brumby 6-25
...The brumby of Australia, not known to be well bred
Some are tough as leather, but that not often said
More criticised that praised, for damage that they do
Muddying the waterholes, as cattle never...
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Categories:
brumbies, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
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“Barking Up the Wrong Tree”
ghost gums
shed their bark
the min-min
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to
imprint and write
thoughts, like the
ripening welt...
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Categories:
brumbies, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
Midnight Brumbies
...Neighing of the
Midnight brumbies
Foal and sand
At hoof
The call of water
Brings them in
Between crystal and moonlit hills
The fire is out
Black as
Midnights brumbies
Neighing down by the ...
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Categories:
brumbies, horse, water,
Form: Free verse
Six Olives On a Skewer In Empty Glass
...how clever a peck on the cheek, a kiss on the head
a hug with a boa constriction for the parents i love.
how cruel this fate of social isolation, to stunt the breath
of this illusion, that i mig...
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Categories:
brumbies, family, mothers day,
Form: Couplet
Black Molasses
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"Black Molasses"
Black Molasses
holds to ransom
footprints
sucked into
Tropic of Capricorn mud
as bushfires bleed
sugar from cane
like...
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Categories:
brumbies, death, fire, world,
Form: Free verse
Bushland Celebrity
...free-roaming feral
Australian mob of brumbies-
Snowy River man...
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Categories:
brumbies, celebrity, film, horse, world,
Form: Haiku
Wild Horses
...Here's a time honored expression
Wild horses couldn't keep me away
Methinks that's pretty much a fallacy
Their power's an awesome display
Wild horses are majestic animals
Roaming free ...
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Categories:
brumbies, horse,
Form: Rhyme
My Favourite Animal In the Wild
...My favourite animal in the wild?
Brumbies and mustangs when I was a child.
But now as an adult I really can't say,
There's such a magnificent diverse array.
But I suppose upon some introspect...
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Categories:
brumbies, animal, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Wild Horses
...Here's a time honoured expression
Wild horses couldn't keep me away
Methinks that's pretty much a fallacy
Their power is an awesome display
Wild horses are majestic animals
Roaming free o'e...
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Categories:
brumbies, animals,
Form: Quatrain
Joe White
...Back in 1880 you will find, Joe White he was about.
The brumby runner master mind. Of this I'll leave no doubt.
He took from Mugan station, 600 brumbies yes my friend.
Had the best riders ...
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Categories:
brumbies, adventure, home, day, home,
Form: Ballad
Dingo
.....DINGO..
Out in the west the wild Brumbies still roam,
there you`ll find red Dingo the sheep killer dog.
Dog netting fences are there to keep the sheep home,
Roo holes let him through like a ...
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Categories:
brumbies, adventuredog, dog, red,
Form: Rhyme
G Grandfather Joe White
...JOE WHITE
Back in 1880 you will find, Joe White he was about.
The Brumby runner master mind. Of this I'll leave no doubt.
He took from Mugan station, 600 Brumbies yes my friend.
Had the best ri...
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Categories:
brumbies, adventurehome, day, green, home,
Form: Rhyme
Is Handling Seduction
...Seduction
Allison she came to live with us
I told Chris I might have some fun
I’d handle her just a little bit
Yes she threw my hand off, some
But I was just an old Horse breaker
Used to patt...
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Categories:
brumbies, adventurefear, love,
Form: Rhyme
Harry the Breaker
...HARRY THE BREAKER
Harry galloped through the Mulga (13% protien animal tucker)
On a game horse Bunga Din
The Brumbies galloping on Tolga
Were yarded with a grin
Every station had a wel...
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Categories:
brumbies, warbody, me,
Form: Ballad
Piccaninny Dawn
...The old man and his grandson viewed
A barren bladeless ground.
When to his left the young lad's eye
Saw bleached bones scattered 'round.
'Twas more than one beast's bones that lay
There exp...
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Categories:
brumbies, history, loss, sad, death,
Form: Ballad
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