Abandoned Farm in Northern Victoria
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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 ...
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Categories:
red gum, absence, farm, identity, loss,
Form: Free verse
Mystery
...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...
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Categories:
red gum, allegory, animal, change, england,
Form: Free verse
Memorial Tree
...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...
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Categories:
red gum, remember,
Form: Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
red gum, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Erosion
...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 ...
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Categories:
red gum, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Love Potion
...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 ...
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Categories:
red gum, color, conflict, culture, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Austral Dreaming
...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...
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Categories:
red gum, home, imagination, red, giggle,
Form: I do not know?
Mountains High, Oceans Deep
...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...
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Categories:
red gum, happiness, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Couplet