Stockade Poems - Poems about Stockade

flip a coin

...two sides to every coin
sometimes, 
the head speaks
while the tail roars
twisted by the pain
tales of their fame
an infamous villain
sent to the stockade

Tales told, and evils sold
A pench...

The Problem With Polaroids

...Memories of my childhood
are Polaroids of nostalgic cards
instant colored snapshots of my every action
from the day of my birth to the day I took my first steps
from the day I first started schoo...

A Field Day Shoe Fit For Mother Goose

...A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
  
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering 
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher at yours t...

Mother Goose Would Find Her Tail Feathers Ruffled

...Mother Goose would find her tail feathers ruffled 

Hey diddle diddle 
the cat and the fiddle
when off to see 
a crooked man and woman,
whilst cowards jumped 
over moo ving little
pair of mis...

Occupational Therapy

...I’ve been working since I was twelve years old,
But my first on-the-books job
Was as a sailor in the US Navy,
Gunners Mate.
Six years and three Westpac deployments.
Fifty months of sea duty
Cha...

A Nation of Narcissists

...fumigated like stockade lice
you Wall St. cologne jockeys
would be 3rd World land fill
recall that consciousness is tunable
adjust your volume to a comfortable level
because Turette's plus Alzhe...

A Study In Bronze

...I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it
On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the
dingo’s call?  It couldn’t be as all
Round me were the sounds of London go...

Mchenry's Horse

...Ballaraat’s known for its bounty of gold,
and the days of Eureka Stockade,
plus winning horses, on racing courses,
where flanks of the horses are flayed.

And the offer of prize is a bountiful o...

Brain Chemistry

...long term thinking is a creator of appetite
but brain chemistry can play tricks 
like a rattlesnake bite can play tricks
once you toss your conscience into the gutter
and the desire for being the...

The Diggers Oath

...They gathered together thinking it’s not right
To charge for mining permits with gold in sight
So they gathered together at the Eureka Stockade
And armed themselves in their righteous crusade

E...

The Eureka Stockade

...The Bard stopped at Footscray
on the road to Ballarat
he was researching The Eureka Stockade
not Romeo and Juliet
he imagined the miners
manning the barricades
police bullets flying
hoisting T...

Plucking the Poisonous Parrot

...The heavens scent of layers varnish,
upon layers then grow and tarnish,
like a stockade wrapped with palisades.
A battlement inside playing charades;
as the volume gets louder - louder,
won't tu...

Villanelle: Those Whom the Muses Love Die Martyrs' Deaths At Lone Stockade

...Villanelle : Those whom the Muses love die Martyrs' deaths at lone Stockade

Those whom the Muses love die martyrs' deaths at lone stockade
Not yearning for success excuses each seek to elude
...

The Time Machine

...A scientist worked hard each day
To make a time machine to work away
And he had an assistant who worked along
Happy to share the scientist’s song
He had to clock on and off each day
The scientis...

Villanelle: If You Think You Think and Not Feel Your Thoughts Invade

...Villanelle : If you think you think and not feel your thoughts invade

	For Mozart's solo piano in Concertos Nos. 20 & 22, K466 & K482 (1785)

If you think you think and not feel your thoughts...

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