Short Outback(A) Poems

“in the outback”


g’day

bidet...

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In
the
outback-
deserted
with no route back home....

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SELFIE

cockatoo upside-
down-under.
checks out
camera, outback
jiggles traffic cam.
handsome tuft
hangs on.

6/2/2018...

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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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He goes by the alias Outback Jack
Telling tales of OZ, he’s got the knack
Little Joe's no punk
He’s an Aussie hunk
Whom I’d love to get in the sack...

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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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My brown kelpy outback dog
Quite often gets on the grog,
He chases his tail constantly,
Briefly stopping to scratch a flea,
Then, off with the sheep to play leap-frog....

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Dingo hunter met Santa in the Australian outback
They discussed a possible new career path for him
Reindeer were nervous around dingo hunter’s horse
These animals are wild! Whispered Dancer....

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Lindsay Laurie's never boring
                      ~ Tales from the outback flip my back out



             January 01 2020
 Who Trips your Trolley Poetry Contest
            Sponsor: Bobby May...

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A crisp Outback day. . . .
Two jackaroos pause midstream.
Breathing in nature,
they hear cool rushing water
and feel the sun at their backs.


Written 2/21/12 and based on a picture  
of Australian cowboys....

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Abigail Kirk lived in outback town Burke,
A hotel receptionist, she had a slight quirk,
Her rather long ponytail stretched to the floor,
After a few years it had grown much more,
She sold it to ten bald men and retired from work....

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A kangaroo misplaced in the outback 
You might want to watch yourself 
He's ready to fight. 

Copyright © Cynthia Jones 
Nov.8/2005 

I took a couple of titles from my poems and came up with a few new writes. :o) 
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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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Now that the Chrysler Chargers 
With the Holden Monaros 
And the Ford Falcons 
Are all vanishing from 
Our roads in the Outback
What will the bikie outlaws
In the next Mad Max movie
Drive on their tracks
Toyota Camrys just don’t cut it....

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Gum trees line the road
To long outback red paddock
To my father's house

Olive green Gum leaves
On wind-swept red-sandstone hills
Flick like Brumby tails

Eucalypt tree leaves 
Are food for our koala's
Round our Billabong





© Brenda V Northeast 23/Jan,/2012    for Linda- Marie’s haiku contest...

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Poor Clem was hanging off the shed rafters,
His angry outback wife strutting underneath,
" You've gotta come down some time Clem,"
Said angry Etta through grinding teeth.

"I've never heard of anything so despicable,"
Poor Clem was hanging on in dreaded fear,
"You think you know a man so well,
Then he goes and takes your beer."...

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This is the kind of life I want to lead;
calm and apart from civilization.
The rat race of the city I don’t need.
I’ll take this rustic part of our nation.

Let me travel the land on horseback.
We can ford a cool, flowing mountain stream.
This is the land I love called “The Outback”;
the next best thing to heaven it would seem.
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There is a big hole 
Outback near the gate
It’s dark and deep
And very straight

Deeper than a well
And darker than night
With gurgling sounds
Enough to fright

A word to the wise
For what it is worth
I heard it goes
Right through the earth

Don’t stand too close
To see what’s inner
Cause if you fall down
You’re gonna miss dinner....

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Rainforest, sparkling white sand
And friendly country towns
Man eating crocodiles
Outback and Darling Downs
The awe inspiring Barrier Reef
And tropic Moonlight nights
Bushland animals and solitude
The heat the earth ignites
Rich brown earth and floodlit plain
Earth’s bounty here we sow
Sugar cane, Wattle and Blue gums
Paradise untamed aglow...

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Rusty old tracks stretching across the Outback
The wind sings a song of strong hearts on the track
When distance was conquered  by pioneers 
As they toiled and died in long lonely years

Now it’s dust and heat shimmering through
As rusty iron tells their story too
And we who inherit their pioneer part
Stand tall under our Southern Cross heart.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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as the empty jackets sway
awaiting the days of thee inn
while the shore cries back
between the light houses 
englishmen invites bagels 
to dine the lobster screams
the claws are red
but not ready yet
while the taken
takes a stand alone
as the sable dance outback
behind the paisley gates 
the dark drapes fall
over the last call
ah a spider
splashes in the final sip
of hot cider...

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Chris McCandless ventured 
With knowledge, know how 
& not one dollar to his name 
He stayed in a magic bus 
For many many a moon 
living off plants and other 
Just to survive another day 
But due to circumstances 
He made one false error 
Which cost him everything 
And left him to die alone 
In the harsh harsh outback 

Many recall his trip 
In one way or another 
and re tell his story...

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A track leads through a gully in the bushland
Following the least line of resistance in a haphazard plan
The kookaburras and the magpies squawk happily away
The sun on my back makes me want to stay

Walking to the rock face broken on the gorge face
Two wallabies look our way and away they race
A creek flows through glistening in the sun
The day exploring is heaven easily done.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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If you have ever redesigned before, 
You have redone your floor.

It could be carpet, wood or tile,
Really whatever is your style.

Outback, you can refashion the deck,
It really looks like a wreck.

Call me at my store
And I will meet you at the door.

My samples I will bring,
We can have it installed by Spring.

Guarantee, they never looked so good.
I can do it at my house, I think I should....

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WW1
and after bloody ww1
 our returning boys,
were bloody numb,
to walk the roads,
 with a swag outback,
to live on rabbit on the track,
half crazed from bomb and gas attack,
as crazy seen by some,
old soldiers on their rum,
when they could get em some,
outback...

re: Dave Williams excellent "The King's Shilling"

Don Johnson

World War One 1914-1918

WW2 Aussie soldiers, were five bob a day murderers, they quipped:)...

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