Stable, Eternal Love
...Against all the odds, day after day,
She survives after all others died,
Growing right up against all of her pain,
She’s completely unbroken and wild,
Loving each day, each small little fight...
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Categories:
stringybark, nature, sun, tree,
Form: Quatrain
Observations From a Messmate Stump
...Here I sit on the stump, of a dead messmate gum,
where house-keeping is poor, for the cleansed human mind;
the dead is not buried, so the living survive.
I see the fine balance, in a world that’s ...
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Categories:
stringybark, nature,
Form: Lyric
Lonigan
...Thomas Lonigan 1844 to 1878 (34 years old)
Tom Lonigan married Charlotte in the Irish town of Bella Sligo.
He knew for her only the best life to give, to Australia they would go.
In 1871 Melbour...
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Categories:
stringybark, hero,
Form: Ballad
Billycan Creek
...When I get tired of the concrete and tar
there’s a place I can go, and not travel far,
that hasn’t been touched by progress at all;
nature stands still beneath gums growing tall.
And in amongst...
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Categories:
stringybark, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Glenrowan Inn
...Born of Irish blood
In Beveridge, Victoria
Descending into
Violence euphoria
At an early age
Notoriety was there
Arrested so young
He did not care
Stringybark Creek was the turning point
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Categories:
stringybark, death, people, places
Form: Rhyme
The Stand At Stinkybark Creek [contd]
...The brother of the leader Red then grabbed darts from the board
and hurled them at the squad cars tyres ... and yes, the lad had scored.
Detective Konaday then played the nastiest of pranks
by ...
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Categories:
stringybark, funny, life, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme