Remembrance Day 2024
...I saw students placing flags on the resting places of our honoured dead……
Remembrance Day 2024
The flags flutter from grave to grave
Marking the lying place of our honoured brave
The magpies ...
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Categories:
mateship, remembrance day, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Marching To the Same Beat
...an angel stands under a lonely pine
showing the way to the lost souls
the ones
who innocently answered the king’s call
and now
flags fly half mast...
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Categories:
mateship, march,
Form: Free verse
Determination
...I have considered at some length, the incronvertible
Evidence of malignant intent also conspiracy to end
Lives of those oblivious to, and devoid of any ill intent to others (murder by any other ter...
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Categories:
mateship, character, corruption, environment, prejudice,
Form: Prose
The Only Topic
...The Only Topic
Every Morning I get up and the very first thing I do,
Is switch on the Teli, to find out the latest Hullabaloo.
Well it might be Carl, Sam or Kochy/Kochie on 7, 9, SBS or the ABC. ...
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Categories:
mateship, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Outback Souls
...Close 'round the crackling fire we three,
with sweet acacia in the air -
tell stories of Gallipoli
and digger's bond of friendship there.
We laughed and shared like family
with roof and walls...
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Categories:
mateship, eulogy,
Form: Quatrain
Computer Error
...I’ve always been a cash man, so when me cash was blown,
I might be sitting back all stony broke and pleading for a loan,
at least I know that if a mate, throws up a couple of pound,
that I can pay...
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Categories:
mateship, computer, humor,
Form: Rhyme