Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet - 1910
...Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet, Author, Actor, and Model: American Historian.
1910
In another life, beneath the Southern Cross,
In lands where eucalypts whisper tales of old,
An arti...
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Categories:
eucalypts, angel, anxiety, bible, care,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sunset at the Waterhole
...Fluffy white clouds in the smokey blue sky
Whilst eucalypts branch healthy and high,
Fuzzy reflections mirror and shade
Grandeur creations naturally made.
Gentle ripples boarder surrounds
Native...
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Categories:
eucalypts, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
Rhododendrons
...In neat formations
rhododendrons guard
the half acre order
of our mountain block
and rush their unreal colour
into a landscape just emerging
from winter's cold.
They seem out of place
in th...
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Categories:
eucalypts, spring,
Form: Free verse
From a Deck Chair
...Into the mystic and blue water purl
watch in motion a season’s changing guard,
and rising ocean drafts its far depths swirl
up silica sandstone cliffs steeped and scarred.
Where silver eu...
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Categories:
eucalypts, nature, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Wild Garden
...Wild hedges of scarlet bottle brush
Ruby flowers catch my eye,
Busy bees kiss mauve daises
And a giant dragonfly…
Waterhole where birds are dipping
Flowing notes from natures fall,
Sunbeams s...
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Categories:
eucalypts, nature,
Form: Rhyme
That Tree
...My new friend was honest, informal and direct
About nature all around, her words I now reflect…
‘I don’t understand the artist for that tree is just a tree
Though an artist would describe it...
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Categories:
eucalypts, perspective, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful Firetail Finch
...Looking through the three-eighth gauge, at zebra's, stars and plumhead.
Listening to the expert in the trade and take in what he said.
I went home and scanned through pages of books and magazine,
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Categories:
eucalypts, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Eucalypts and Bergamot
...I wasn't born
in Ballarat
or Bendigo
Rome wasn't close
I was born
near Reggio Calabria
many eons ago....
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Categories:
eucalypts, life,
Form: Free verse
On Jilliby Farm
...Each night a brown orb spider,
a piece of night from under the eaves
spins a sticky intricate web
against the silhouette of leaves
Kangaroos the color of bark and stones
begin a dawn retrea...
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Categories:
eucalypts, beauty, bird, day, earth,
Form: Rhyme
The Cider Gum
...The Cider Gum (Eucalyptus Gunnii)
By
Kevin L Fairbrother
The full Moon ablaze in the night sky
Beams down on the dead and dying Cider Gums
Their ghostly silhouettes, so white and star...
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Categories:
eucalypts, absence, culture, environment,
Form: Free verse
Death of a Kangaroo
...Cobwebs sag, gloomy clouds
like a furrowed brow
loom over the house-
a kangaroo lies dying on
our country road .
A car's apologetic screech-
a deathly thud-
the twisted scrambling
of a bro...
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Categories:
eucalypts, animal, death, devotion, grief,
Form: Free verse
Climate Change
...Eucalypts in storms
under a Kimberley sky...
the Polar Bear fries.
© Harry J Horsman 2012...
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Categories:
eucalypts, nature,
Form: Haiku
Koala
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He’s such a cuddly little guy,
to lose him we’d regret.
And though he’s on the threatened list
he’s not endangered......Yet!
Unique to East Australia
but known the world o’er.
He lives...
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Categories:
eucalypts, animals
Form: Rhyme