Mulga Poems - Poems about Mulga

...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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. ......

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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......

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...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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