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Outback Poems - Poems about Outback

Backyard Outback
Within a crack in grisly clouds one night I briefly glimpsed the redish-orange hue of the Australian desert poking through— pillars of bunched up puffs, in the colored light of a sleepy sun’s rosy rays,—and the might of such a sight struck my soul’s drowsy blue. So suddenly my heavy spirit flew like a falcon to that unequaled height. And soon returning...

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Categories: outback, beauty, color, metaphor, nature,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Outback Views
Be sparse like the saltbush plains of the outback, short on adjectives, mostly verb and noun. Let the sun scorch shadows into the sand, hollow out some shade where a little life can hide from the heat. Celebrate the light, its clear passage through the air, hard as the sharpened edge of a steel blade. See how it cracks the land, opens wounds where the...

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Categories: outback, light, myth, poetry, self,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Outback
The wind blows across empty cattle yards and tailing mounds from old copper mines, across open spaces that spread beyond boundary fences and the reach of railway lines, way out past the rutted wakes left by four wheel drives. Only bones take root out here and grow into phantoms who haunt the horizon, finding voice in the moans that wander the land in search of lost ancestral homes. Something ancient...

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Categories: outback, city, culture, earth, history,
Form: Free verse
In the Outback
“in the outback” g’day bidet...

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Categories: outback, color,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Giant Hand Fell In the Outback
giant sandstone hand fell in the Outback several koalas and kangaroos heard it others chose not to i can barely see the fingers now but i know they are there...

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Categories: outback, travel,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Bulletproof Outback
Numb to sun's torture, scathed terrain Syphons cynic's air, ribs poised Statuesque breath stoic barren refrain Skeletal inertia, rhythm devoid Famine implores an acapella anthem ...

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Categories: outback, allusion, animal, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On An Outback Plain
On an outback plain where big Roos were few A gang went riding their Harley’s Their plan was to stop at the pub for a brew So they headed at top speed for Charley’s It wasn’t too long as they sped along that a Big Red hopped out of nowhere that was the moment that things went wrong and started this sorry...

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Categories: outback, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Clemens of the Outback
There's a poet on our site, Who can really tell a story. He looks at everyday affairs, And then weaves tales of glory. The way he writes he takes you there. He draws his readers in, With colorful description, Of adventure, laughter, kith and kin. The Clemens of the outback, Our personal Mark Twain. It's a privilege to read for him. For certain he's got game. If...

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Categories: outback, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Outback
God just made a terrible blunder Clearly revealed by claps of thunder There was no sinner Just Aussie dinner After poking around Down Under...

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Categories: outback, humor,
Form: Limerick
Outback Duel
There are no laws designed by man that mean a thing out where, the drying sun on pastel lands can’t lead all to despair, where frightened eyes can see for miles across the saltbush plain, where death becomes a great relief to those who suffer pain. And I who after all these years look back and still recall, what I...

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Categories: outback, death,
Form: Rhyme
Death In the Outback
There is a headstone in the Outback About a Halfway along the Birdsville track Written on it Thomas William Noel Treloar Who was accidentally drowned in Coopers Creek’s fatal shore He was aged in years six and twenty Dying on 6 October in 1920 But the curious thing to be Is the Track is 900 miles from the sea Ya know once and...

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Categories: outback, death,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Tales From the Outback
Lindsay Laurie's never boring ~ Tales from the outback flip my back out January 01 2020 Who Trips your Trolley Poetry Contest ...

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Categories: outback, adventure, humor, word play,
Form: Monoku
Aussie Outback Christmas
AUSSIE OUTBACK CHRISTMAS Comin' 'ome in an aussie sleigh, ol' tractor ute with a rusty tray, with a big branch of Gum, it be the Christmas tree . hard to find 'em white ant free. Nailed it to a webbed dusty wall, usin' my boot as a hamma watching all the spiders fall, decorated with koala, snake an' goanna . Com' Christmas morn here in Whatabugga, dis...

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Categories: outback, christmas, culture, fun, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
An Outback Flock
I hear the drone that quizzes me then see the swirling mass. A cloud veers in all directions; green changes in a flash. Ten thousand wings are beating. The sky a wonderful delight. I follow the budgerigars until the flock is out of sight....

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Categories: outback, bird, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Outback Australia Customer Service
OUTBACK AUSTRALIA CUSTOMER SERVICE Tis the aussie outback, a cocky walks a dusty shearing track, to the only crackling phone for miles around, climbing an old dead tractor for best sound, bout a sheep disorder from an online order. "Gudday customer service mate" Farmer White's gravel voice in wait. "Ullo, you speak Ubee Wong best sheep in Hong Kong", an Asian voice...

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Categories: outback, farm, funny, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Free verse

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