The Derelict Country Railway Station
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The shiny, silver gleam
of wheel polished railway lines
have been dulled by a thick scab
of rust. Weeds have colonized
the stoney ballast, the wooden
sleepers have rotted away to dust.
The ...
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Categories:
mallee, history, nostalgia, time,
Form: Free verse
Some Summer Sun Youthful Days
...Roof top summer time
The excellently exceptional
Mischief mallee throwing ice from
Hallway windows at passers-by
Sunshine all the time sun gaze
Am I blind? Summer CRAZE!!
Hey! Whatever daze...
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Categories:
mallee, family, health, hip hop,
Form: Alliteration
A Study In Bronze
...I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it
On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the
dingo’s call? It couldn’t be as all
Round me were the sounds of London go...
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Categories:
mallee, endurance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Salt Lake
...On my first trip to the outback across the endless plains,
I saw a harsh and hungry land in pastel coloured stains.
There are more secrets out there, than sun and shifting sand -
It would take mor...
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Categories:
mallee, beauty, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Dust Storm
...Lifting from the Millewa;
swirling to the sky,
billowed to the heavens,
each particle drifts high.
Closing down the clearness
in an ever thickening rust,
from dry and harrowed farmland,
swirls...
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Categories:
mallee, nature, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Bird Observers Guide
...Sitting on the back porch on a balmy summers morn
and listening to the music of the dawn
wondering who sang the song and where the bird is at;
reaching for my copy, of ‘What bird is that?’
But ...
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Categories:
mallee, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Another Road Kill
...Spent all day cleaning up my car for a trip to Broken Hill.
Serviced, oiled and greased. The petrol tank is filled.
Left Adelaide for the open road; sun setting in the west.
An orange sky slowly d...
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Categories:
mallee, car, heartbreak, sad,
Form: Ballad
The Lucky One
...Ah those trips along the Murray River,
taking Tommy the dog for his stroll
is a blessing for Gary and me,
and really quite good for the soul.
And some days we pick up a friend,
whose knowledg...
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Categories:
mallee, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Holler
...If it were not for a song
Midnight train to Georgia
Little child runnin' wild
Fellows mellow hanging
Holler holler!
Ketchup sandwiches
Home alone
Aah Dem days
Mommy's home!
Pity pat ch...
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Categories:
mallee, anger, angst, boy, brother,
Form: Cinquain
If Shakespeare Chose the Outback
...“Gotta’ ‘git’ ‘im!” Followed the howl of death.
His cigarette burnt brighter, when he sucked another breath.
“Will I get the gun and spotlight?” I asked rising from my chair.
“Nar’, no sense!” the...
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Categories:
mallee, dog, farm, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Mallee Rain
...A twisting whirly musters
hard baked leaves and bark.
There’s another red sunset,
just before it’s dark.
The wilting wattles weep,
and plea ‘I can’t live on!’
The strong keep fighting drought.
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Categories:
mallee, nature, weather,
Form: Lyric
Gerty Gribble's Dilemma
...My aunty Gerty Gribble was a true blue pioneer
as she and husband Harold ran a place called 'Bendemere'.
Two dinkum Aussie battlers, who had given their life's blood
to fifty years of toiling o...
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Categories:
mallee, funny, mother, baby, old,
Form: Narrative