Long Brisbane Poems

Senate legal and constitutinal affairs reference committie convened
March 2022 one Senator presiding and two witnessing'
The room echoes as the warriors enter.! Almost equivelent to
The booming endorsements of the preceeding years yet ghostly 
Sounding echies now.....

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"The Forgotten Legion of Rose Thorns"



Reversing roll calls
the Anti-Hero 
jumps through 
burning hoops
instinctively

bathed in the magnum glow
designed to fire cartridges
with a kick like a field gun
a bloody victory 
is eventually won

lacking conventionality
novel and picaresque
placing bad...

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This is a story about a Butterfly

She escaped the Boilermaker
Through transformation. 
To transform required a period of incubation, 
a need to sleep to dream and 
the freedom of quiet self-contemplation - 
of course, such a...

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David Jones, the best rat catcher Shropshire has ever had
must take some criticism for young Molly turning bad.
Even though his daughter found rich co-incidentals,
no credit could be taken by rat catching Dad's credentials.

At nineteen she's...

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LUKE
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Kelly Ghosts!
         Dan Kelly lived and Steve Hart too,
          though the police thought they had fried.
  ...

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If you've lived in outback Queensland just as I have,
you must've faced at times the scourge of drought. 
You'd have watched the senseless dying of your livestock
and felt completely drained and numb no doubt.
Did you...

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Wally some call him Zip (fed em black duck) (crow actually) Kakadu song man of Gulf town
Karumba Australia

Stay alive in 55 and 56 said the roadside sign..
As the Ford Mercury whizzed by on local Brisbane...

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So am I not enough for you
Is what we have not enough for us
what answers do you need to quell your curiosity
do you so doubt the truth of our first kiss
have you watched so long...

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Wally some call him Zip (fed em black duck) (crow actually)Kakadu song man of Gulf town Karumba Australia

Stay alive in 55 and...

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The Red Devil Bronco Johnson 1950-2007
Oh he blew into Toowoomba in 1972
The GTHO Ford was firing left black tracks on bitumen too
Laid 200 feet of rubber they were still smoking in the street
When the coppers...

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Come an get the gall-fat Harry,


Dirranabandi in the thirties ,
Poor ole Crothers had to frown,
Boomi-Jack’s got a sheep down,
Sucking chops an eating, clown,
Come an get the gall-fat Harry,

Harry Crothers was the local Squatter,
Boomi the bush...

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Sponsor	Nancy Jones
Contest Name	Things that suck

Lest we forget the Bad decisions …

(Myxo the rabbit steal the Bagmans Bunny),     first use of a deadly weapon
( Cane toads 4 cane beetles,)( 12 atom bombs...

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Lake Eliza
Out by poor old  Lake Elisa lived a moody ancient miser.
Who bemoaned his fate throughout the livelong day.
lived further west than Isa out where the heat and flies are.
So he plotted as he...

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what answers do you need to calm your curiosity 
	do you so doubt the truth of our first kiss
	have you watched so long that you no longer see me
	what secrets did you think i could...

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Old Flossy
by Don Johnson
Brisbane-Australia

It was there on Sharpen station, ....(ranch)
west near Adavale i'd be. 
Back in the early thirties, 
worst drought you'd ever see. 
Five thousand cows were dying slow, 
brought from lake Nash to...

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"50 Words for Poe: Shark"




The Shark’s name was Bruce
he liked to drive with his head 
hanging out the car 
mouth wrapped around a 
Montecristo Dantes Cuban Cigar

They met in Wichita
Room 101 in the 
Hotel Cicero

“Hey...

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Oh, where do you sleep my lost German friend, 
where do your bleached bones lie? 
Believe me good Sir, we did search for you,  
we gave it our best try. 
 
You woke from...

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WHARFIE

Twenty years ago I drove a bus in 1970 day or night, 
For Brisbane council yes I drove blue panthers I'm no skite. 
To New Farm Wharf I drove a load of passengers alright 
But...

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Hunted
by Don Johnson
Brisbane-Australia
 On a bitter cold and moonless night, 
 there came a gentle knock at the door. 
Only half heard Joe did stir from sleep, alight, 
to meet a stranger exhausted and footsore....

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1977 BRIDGE SITE MINER`S BLUES.
Down in old south Brisbane, 
where the derro`s do hang out, 
Where the pipes were stacked 6 high, 
the homeless camped about. 
I was working mate as a miner, 
on a...

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COLIN ROSS

Colin Ross the squatter man
He wore a suit of black
He carried a pistol on his hip
And a cross of gold hung slack
Deadfox Dancy looked up from his sheep ...
(so called for raffling a dead...

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Drover Dick
by Don Johnson
Brisbane..Australia.

Our Colonel was Dick Marson, 
on the New Guinea campaign, 
He was for us, old Drover Dick, 
who down the Cooper came. ..........Aussie cattle rustler (duffer)
The one who rode with Redford, the...

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Memorable Vacations





Queensland was a dream come true,
Along forest lake walks under the blue,

Summers of December 2010 on my sis' invite,
Excited we were for the double delight,

Long travel concluded into a toast,
Beaches and sea, Byron bay...

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Who was it?

Who was it sacked the fifteen thousand,
Who enjoys the sacking, he just smiles
Who has the public informing on public servants,
On who went to McDonalds for lunch with style,
Who was it fixed the hospitals,
Sacked...

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