Red Gum Poems - Poems about Red Gum

... For decades, motor cars have driven past in haste, eyes not straying far from the highway to where, set back and obscured by scrub, an abandoned farm is slowly succumbing to rot. I catch ......Read the rest...

...Inside of each brain lives a glistening spark , Casting spells onto the native red gum bark. Carvings engrave crucial narratives in mind, Smell of eucalyptus is solely confined. An exotic platy......Read the rest...

...God is met not as an object to be understood, but as a mystery to be loved -attributed to Gregory of Nyssa d. 19 July, 394 Crisp and white underfoot crunching whilst I take out the b......Read the rest...

...On a park beside the Murray on a state park boundary, amongst red gums and black box and the silver wattle tree, there’s a place to go exploring with a thousand things to see, on the weekly Thu......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...Ghostly grey in death. Lifeless arms and leafless. Drowned by times erosion. Change forced by the grief-less. You were here before me; a timeless guard and river guide … once you steered the ......Read the rest...

...Love Potion Add chinchilla fur at the end Two cups of cold water Ice A pound of sugar A clove of garlic Four cinnamon sticks A package of Big Red gum A teaspoon of curry powder A bunch ......Read the rest...

...From Byron bay to Broome on rolling russet plains beauty shine’s the Kimberly when the northern territory rains My heart will always weep when the scent of wattle’s lost gum trees out of sight my wor......Read the rest...

...Ankle deep water, ebbing, seeping From melting ice to flood is leaking To form a rapid river flowing Ounce by ounce this stream is growing To wash into an oval pool besides Then rush to meet t......Read the rest...