A Short Drive
...A couple of 'roos
A joey standing forlorn by it's unmoving mother
A few wallabies
A brick of a wombat
An Echidna
A heap of budgies
A raven
Some pretty green grass parrots
Cockies and galahs
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Categories:
cockies, sad,
Form: Free verse
One Square Mile
...In one square mile, northeast of Noojee,
there are seven birds that I often get to see
as I walk on the tracks in pristine forestry,
in one square mile, northeast of Noojee.
A Whipbird crack th...
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Categories:
cockies, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Love Aves
...Three black cockies
Sitting in a tree,
Big black cockies
Noisy as can be.
Red-tailed cockies
Sharing all the news,
Love them all very much
My friends; black cockatoos....
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Categories:
cockies, bird, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Nasty Bugger Be
...A NASTY BUGGER BE
We had this parrot once,
A real nasty piece of works,
A cunning sort of a bugger,
Who went by the handle of “Jock,”
There was only one in the family
who could pat or even g...
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Categories:
cockies, remember,
Form: Free verse
Passing Through
...The sun is rising at my back;
across the land’s a lemon glow,
to brighten up my backdrop,
where pristine vegetation grow.
I’m sitting down upon my porch,
with coffee cup held in my hand;
a sl...
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Categories:
cockies, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Loch River Valley
...Where the forest is still virgin and the lyrebirds often call,
the bronze-wing comes to drink, and the ferns are growing tall,
there are deer prints in the mud, and there’s leeches seeking prey…
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Categories:
cockies, nature, river,
Form: Rhyme
Valley In the High Country
...A constant vein of nature’s blood cascading rock and sand,
Flushing grains of dislodged mud. The beat in a mountain band,
Currawongs sing melody. Black Cockies rasping call;
The whispering breeze ...
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Categories:
cockies, nature,
Form: Lyric
Touch Cindy
...On Friday nights a melting pot,
descends upon the pub,
truck drivers, cockies, factory hands,
and workers from the scrub,
to mingle in the many shouts,
that see their glasses fill,
who leave be...
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Categories:
cockies, death, dog, sad,
Form: Lyric
The Tree of Relief
...In a land of endless saltbush stretching miles across the plains
Of western New South Wales where it rarely ever rains,
And the temperature is searing on a soil that's living hell,
Where bleaching...
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Categories:
cockies, animal, dog, humor, ,
Form: Rhyme
The Cockies' Lament
...The Cockies are in trouble, they can’t live off the land
Mortgaged out of existence with the need to expand
Hope like the land eroding, luck just giving out
Bushies fighting continually, fire, floods...
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Categories:
cockies, life,
Form: Rhyme
Sam Came From Bollon On the Wallan S.W.Queensland Aus.
...Sam came from Bollon on the Wallan S.W.Queensland Aus.
Sam Mc Croon came from Bollon soon
When he heard about old Galoon the Batey
She was big an a Ox light in her sox
And she loved her Irish ...
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Categories:
cockies, romanceold, me, old,
Form: Rhyme
When the Evidence Went Missing
...I was perched upon a wooden bench beneath a bottle tree
when this worn out wiry ringer stopped to rest his gammy knee.
I’d been touring through the outback and had sought to sit a spell
while t...
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Categories:
cockies, funny, life, old, me,
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:
cockies, childhood, happiness, history, old,
Form: Narrative