Tussocks Poems - Poems about Tussocks

...Head buried beneath the wind, hung, grasping an overhang, hug the thin bones of wiry tussocks. At the moor's edge where the cliff-drop, gnaws at the sky, a jutting ledge raises it hackles, fi......Read the rest...

...Walking in sailor fields amongst the nettles picking blackberries, the brambles cut deep savage the mind. Yet the bowl to be filled the jam to be boiled the bread of hope to be flavourful, the inn......Read the rest...

...From toothed alps to McKenzie High Country to hardwood alpine forest and fernland, there rises the jewel Aoraki out of the jagged ice age peaks so grand. And polar winds at its rock face......Read the rest...

...twitching noses in tussocks of awakened primroses rummaging on hazel boles hibernating mammals poke from the holes leafless hedgerows where buds now form a carpet of whit......Read the rest...

...I felt I’d been to hell and back before we reached the reedy flat, where the cattle mobbed before we crossed the stream. Old Harry called me over, taking off his battered hat “This is where she di......Read the rest...

...W I N T E R B R E A K S N A T U R E A W A K E S G A R D E N A S L E E P & an oldie reposted Fields flooded into skating rinks into which each footstep sinks, ......Read the rest...

...The Levels The reeds, like tattered banners limply hung From slender, ghost-like lances held on high, Like ancient armies, waiting in the mist To heed the call, a long lost battle cry. A steel......Read the rest...

...“Do you like yabbies?” Barry asked. I replied “Are you sick! I’d just like to ask you; now is the Pope a Catholic?” … So we headed off across the ranges, where Barry’s cousin Ray, had a dam that’s......Read the rest...

...I was working for Jack Daymond, a farmer, who farmed livestock, potatoes and vines. I s’pose he had over two hundred cattle. The spuds and the grapes grew in lines. Oh gawd! Jack had me slavin......Read the rest...

...After a full day grubbing tussocks that infested public land, in a popular reserve that our committee had long planned, we relaxed and had a few drinks to help ease our aches and pains, and we spo......Read the rest...

...ROOBOY Between the spinifex and gibber, across the dry, hot sand, Lenny sits as proud as punch with the leather straps in hand, His roo it has a saddle and a bit between its teeth, When he want......Read the rest...

...SUNLESS IN NORTH SHIELDS It’s painful when the sea wind Drives rain into the eyes At the end of Yeoman Street, Where I waited so long for that girl in the yellow raincoat, Who nev......Read the rest...

...You are an enchanting cynosure Beyond my naked eyes could see; An unbounded briny exposure Where tiny drops assemble sea; Unpretentious blustery waves Evolve from phenomenal ripples; Flowing endless ......Read the rest...

...Andean Pampas Grass grows in California. Its Linnaean binomial is Cortaderia jubata. This noxious weed disperses far and wide. With tall stalks and inflorescences, it has nothing to hide. As an o......Read the rest...

...Snowfall so heavy in 'eighty-two reproduced a Christmas card view. A biting wind swirled in one foot drifts over hanging in bridges..makeshift. The fields flooded into skating rinks into wh......Read the rest...