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Dinkum Poems - Poems about Dinkum

Can It, Aussie Style - Antipodean, Not European
... It's enough to make one chunder there used to be a time Down Under when fair dinkum the label on the tucker tin only stated the true blue maker's name and the Vegemite we'd eat for brek......

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Categories: dinkum, food, fun, humorous, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Power of Words
... Written: May 10, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cosmic candor will be suitable beyond our sight, providing insight we sift and shift, sustaining a sanctum......

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Categories: dinkum, analogy, words,
Form: Free verse



Fare Dinkum
.... for public domain My thoughts scattered, my soul leaned toward running on a Roman sword. The enemy, a futile life, recoiled from this soldier's knife. "Come live this way," the beckon......

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Categories: dinkum, death, destiny, identity, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Battle
...Written: October 05, 2023 ___________________________________________________________ Where the paradisiacal angels reside. A myriad of creatures, ebony and betide A dinkum dissolut......

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Categories: dinkum, analogy, appreciation, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stillness Is Gold
...I agree with the saying that silence is golden. I opine of you calmly, to your love still beholden. You're the light that shines vividly at night. Your fragrant flowers sate my heart w......

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Categories: dinkum, analogy, appreciation, cheer up,
Form: Sonnet



Keefer, the Rabid Dingo
...Once there was dingo, rabidly mad as he could be who thought he was a Bruce of a man by how he spoke But no man would call him their 'mate,' for you see... he was a mongrel dog who pretended to be......

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Categories: dinkum, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My House - Life
...My House - Life My house- life is constructed with bricks of dignity and self esteem. Enthusiastic emotion has erected columns of upri......

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Categories: dinkum, 12th grade, appreciation, house,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Australia Rising
...There is hope in every nation; for the word is going round That Australians are sweeping fear away' They are ardent freedom lovers, who are forged as hammered steel, and thery're gathering suppor......

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Categories: dinkum, confidence, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Talking of Freedom Versus Turn-Key Unreason
...Gb2 's a radio show, it airs in Sydney...But there's more to know.' Ben Fordam has been speaking out, on the covid dictates Roundabout on where the science meets the facts Whether it's all altrui......

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Categories: dinkum, anti bullying, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Aussie Adventures of Skeet and Rich
... With all the world a thousand feet below was the morn on New Year’s Day, and ‘neath a shining weightless wing the sea cliffs steep ......

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Categories: dinkum, holiday, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Evil Within Me
...Inside, rage sufficiently evolves and simmers It sprawls systematically, abrading my dinkum mind, The eager embers are zealously veeled by Satan Until his fierce rage and evil seep int......

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Categories: dinkum, analogy, bereavement, emo, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sunburnt Country
...I love a sunburnt Aussie bloke, with great big, muscled arms, His rugged well-built shoulders, and face with all its charms. I love his thongs and singlet too, and stubby shorts you see, His beer ......

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Categories: dinkum, humorous,
Form: Ballad
Annual Fair Preparation
...Every year our community gets together at the annual church fair. This year they have changed the format with some new events and dropping some of the old events that appeared a little dangerous. How......

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Categories: dinkum, community, games,
Form: Rhyme
The Sex of a Fly
...Hilly lent me his post hole digger ‘cause I’m putting up a fence around me veggie garden, so I could give it some defence from marauding sheep and cattle that some keep on their block, and forget ......

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Categories: dinkum, humor,
Form: Rhyme
We'Re Fair Dinkum Dancing Tonight
...WE’RE FAIR DINKUM DANCING TONIGHT We’re fair dinkum dancing tonight, oh what a beautiful sight, the rain’s pouring down - there’s mud all around. We’re fair dinkum dancing tonight. We’re fa......

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Categories: dinkum, farm, rain,
Form: Lyric

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