Mulga Poems - Poems about Mulga

Greenies

...A workmate friend of my sister; Donella was her name,
was asking questions about snakes and how she felt the shame
of murderers who kill them off; ‘They’re God’s creatures too you know’,
but she h...

Cymbric Vale

...I believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts of the...

City Dreams

...The bright lights of the city
Have lured me away
From bushland plains and mulga scrub
from plains of rich red clay

Away from the serenity
to noise and toil and strife
To pay the bills and cur...

Rooboy

...ROOBOY

Between the spinifex and gibber, across the dry, hot sand,
Lenny sits as proud as punch with the leather straps in hand,
His roo it has a saddle and a bit between its teeth,
When he want...

Outback Shearing Shed

...I'll bet this set of rusty shears have a story they could tell,
of the loneliness and broken backs in a land that's hot as hell,
where hopes and dreams mirrored lives that these shearers led,
here...

Abandoned Homestead

...I gave you shelter from the storm,
when it was cold I kept you warm,
from blazing sun I gave you shade,
stopped the wind from blowing you away.

I gave you comfort in the night,
watched over yo...

Re: Johnsons Antidote

...re:  Johnsons Antidote   by    Banjo Paterson   a great  poem.....


Yes Good morning sir ...maybe it just worked for old goanna:)

We in the 1950's used condys crystal jammed into the snake bite aft...

The Aborigine Boy

...The aborigine boy, his poor young heart was yearning
For the young raven haired girl, a passion was quickly burning
He was to carve his first boomerang to prove he was a man
If it returned back to hi...

Mulga Mick

...Mulga Mick

The ice was thick round Mulga Mick,
His thoughts were in disorder,
Shiela had gone off with another chick,
Got the “Raw Prawn” bloody sort of,

His car had died when a Roo he trie...

Hopkins Snakes

...Hopkins snakes

Old Hopkins had a rope ladder,
To keep snakes out of the house,
Snake killing sticks under the rain water tank,
In the shower, where a snake ate the mouse,
The fowls all lived...

Squatter Jack

...Squatter Jack

have you lived awhile in west Queensland,
out in the red soil dust,
where the crows will pick your eyes out and,
bore water is a must,
have you seen a thin and starving cow,
not...

Mulga Snakeyes

...Mulga Snakeyes

Yes we went a Droving on the job 
As we rode around the mob 
With the cattle, 
just to earn our bit of pay
with Uncle Charlie, to earn a bob
a watching watching of 
watching f...

The Grey Brumby Horse

...The Grey Brumby horse
          Don befriended him,
          as he'd learnt from old Joe White.
          He trained and taught and got him trim,
          and rode him with delight.
          ...

Old Flossy

...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...

Drought

...DROUGHT 

Yes i've wandered cross the country
where the Roo's can die of thirst
and the rivers often dry up
and the ground cracks like a curse
where you watch the storms a coming
but they don'...

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