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Red Gum Poems - Poems about Red Gum


Premium Member Abandoned Farm in Northern Victoria
... 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

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