Bushland Poems - Poems about Bushland

Wild Birds

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I’m a very early riser  - the first settler’s 
alarm clock you might say- 
If you haven’t heard my native name 
Wiradjuri guuguubarr- That’s OK
you would know me as a Kookaburra.

You’ll of...

Puppet Associates

...Hope was Burrow's substance, where he poured his time, 
Pedalling steadily.
Intended path made smooth for those in legacy line.
Sliced through wiry roots, 
Watchguard Wombat dug safety spaces.

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Gardner's Bees

...School holidays were testing times for Mum’s with things we done,
when us kids had idle time to chase the values of new fun.
We’d trained our dogs, built bushland huts, chased rabbits; camped at ni...

Bumblebee

...Bumblebee 

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Second Place Contest Winner

Written: July 7, 2021

In Just A Few Words 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May...

Work Hat Or Flirt Hat - Satire

...- - - An observation of true events - - - 
  - - (insatiable person's search) - - 

Aiming to embellish my identity 
Rural persona branches further 
Tight city existence not meant for me 
Open ...

Bushland

...A long ago, during warm midsummer-nights glow worms reminded me
That constellations in the sky were not the only bright specks,
I’d run my life checks
Irregular but stern
As if I were a dying dri...

Bushland Celebrity

...free-roaming feral
Australian mob of brumbies-
Snowy River man...

The Story of Possum, Legend of the Riverland

...There is a story from Renmark in the Riverland
Of a man in the bush as his legend began
He was a shearer from New Zealand in the Depression
Who came to Australia in the 1920s for shearing sessions...

Outback Souls

...Close 'round the crackling fire we three,
with sweet acacia in the air - 
tell stories of Gallipoli
and digger's bond of friendship there.

We laughed and shared like family
with roof and walls...

City Dreams

...The bright lights of the city
Have lured me away
From bushland plains and mulga scrub
from plains of rich red clay

Away from the serenity
to noise and toil and strife
To pay the bills and cur...

Australia

...I am the bushland dawning
in the stillness of the morning
I am the sunlit plains
and the mighty river's flow

I'm the drought and I'm the flood
I'm the earth and I'm the blood
I'm the breezes ...

Days In a Forest

...On the days I’m in the forest,
there is peace and gratitude,
with being where time does move slow,
and there’s the natural attitude,
of the urging for survival,
that keeps the forest in fine tun...

Parachilna Gorge, Flinders Ranges, Outback South Australia

...A track leads through a gully in the bushland
Following the least line of resistance in a haphazard plan
The kookaburras and the magpies squawk happily away
The sun on my back makes me want to sta...

Have You

...Have you walked the bushland trails?
With Banksias all around
And whiffed the scent of rotting leaves
All scattered on the ground

Have you walked with sand beneath your toes?
Amidst the seashe...

To Dream Again

...To take the time to dream awhile
By winding rivers and bushland trails
Lacy ferns line rivers edge
And reeds grow tall to cast a hedge

The sun filled hours of a summers day
Makes me feel so ha...

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