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:
bunyip, dream, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Bunyip Forest Revisited
...Along the road called forestry, the silver ash weeps over me
as I meander 'round the dell and glade.
Pass scars of sand pits long disused, where gullies, washes speak ‘abused!’
Reclamation offers ...
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Categories:
bunyip, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Bateson's Dam
...The universal worm has got some competition now,
since ‘Sandy’ took me out to Bateson’s dam.
This don’t include the ‘whitchys’ we get in a broken bough,
nor ‘scrubbies’ on the hooks we have to cra...
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Categories:
bunyip, fishing, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Annulment Coming Up
...I blame me brother for the likes of this predicament,
when we pub crawled up to Bunyip, and where our night was spent.
Thank God I wasn’t in the driver’s seat, ‘cause we wouldn’t be alive,
but me...
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Categories:
bunyip, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Vanity By the Wayside
...I’ve often mentioned Hilly in the poems that I have written,
and I’ve often said that Hilly with a brewer’s surely smitten,
so you’re libel now to see him in the state that I call ‘blotto’
but tod...
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Categories:
bunyip, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Bunyip
...Bunyip
Old Bunyip lurked in the billabong
He had a calf like face
Had the body of a seal
strong magic in this place
Native fishermen caught small Bunyip
One thought to carry it home
Dream...
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Categories:
bunyip, adventurewater, magic, water,
Form: Ballad
Cubbie Worker 1955
...Cubbie worker…
So you worked on an out station on Cubbie…
Saw the cattle tracks and also the sheep …
You were only a poor boundary rider …
On your straw bed the hut you did sleep…
The Manage...
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Categories:
bunyip, angst
Form: Ballad
The Bunyip
...“Who am I,” asked the Bunyip. “What am I doing here?”
“Please tell me,” begged the Bunyip,” for my purpose isn’t clear.”
“No answer!” came the stern reply; “You’ll get no help from me!”
Poor Bun...
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Categories:
bunyip, allegory, children, funny, love
Form: Couplet