The STUPID FILTER
The STUPID FILTERYou know I reckon there should be a filter between the mouth and the brain,I tend to say what I think then sometimes I repeat it and say it once again.What’s that...
View ArticleExperts an over used term by over-rated people
EXPERTS (An extremely overused and overrated term) One day I saw this, `Ask the Experts`, section in a magazine,Solving all your problems, including getting your clothes clean.Now their advice was...
View ArticleMoola Bulla (Part Two)
Moola Bulla part 2You took frightened immature boys and turned them into men,You showed no fear or favour as you welcomed us to the den.Not all were frightened, some were brash that much I...
View ArticleChristmas Day at Parron Place or Anywhere else in the Bush
This was my first attempt at writing a Christmas poem. Christmas Day at Parron Place I would always do the water run first thing Christmas morning I believed as the manager it was my...
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Wandoo Reserve
WANDOO RESERVEJust over the road from my place is a reserve called Wandoo,Many people want to camp there as the district they pass on through.It’s always chockers on long week-ends, some even stay for...
View ArticleThe Bloody Piker
The Bloody Piker (Rewrite)There's days you gotta throw the coachers, just to get a mob,Tailing mickeys and tying up pikers, is just part of the job.When you've thrown your coachers and the whips...
View ArticleThe Office Johnny
The OFFICE JOHNNY“Don’t look down at us mate, ‘cos we’re as good as you,We’re the ones who make your wages, me an’ the rest of the crew.Don’t think you’re better than us, ‘cos you sit in an office...
View ArticleWandoo Reserve
WANDOO RESERVEJust over the road from my place is a reserve called Wandoo,Many people want to camp there as the district they pass on through.It’s always chockers on long week-ends, some even stay for...
View ArticleThe Spirit of Australia
My contribution to Australia Day January 24thSPIRIT OF AUSTRALIAIt went droving with Clancy out there on the Overflow.Out in the desert with Lasseter where white men seldom go.It opened up the...
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A Stairway to Heaven or A Highway to Hell
A Stairway to Heaven or a Highway to HellThere is a stairway to Heaven or at least that’s what they say,But if you are going to Hell you can take a well-used Highway.There are multi lanes and...
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Get Stuffed Entertainment Now my niece is getting married, so a hen’s night was planned, For a bit of entertainment the girls booked a giant bucking gland. A huge pink male member that worked...
View ArticleHow the Fire Queen Crossed the Swamp
Will Ogilvie was a Scotsman who spent some time in Australia during the late 1800's early 1900's working at many of the things he wrote poetry about. One of the best if not the best bush poet to write...
View ArticleThe Bushman's Book
Poem: The Bushman's Book by Will OgilvieAll roughly bound together, The red-brown pages lieIn red sirocco leather, With scored lines to the sky: The Western suns have burned them, The desert winds...
View ArticleThe Man Who Steadies the Lead
THE MAN WHO STEADIES THE LEADWill H OgilvieHe was born in the light of red oaths and nursed by the drought and the flood,And swaddled in sweat lined saddle-cloths and christened in spur drawn blood;He...
View ArticleThe Coach of Death
The COACH of DEATHThere’s a phantom-coach runs nightly along the Western Creeks;Her four black steeds step lightly, her driver never speaks;The horses keep there places across flood-worn plains,Yet no...
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The Great Australian Freedom
The GREAT AUSTRALIAN FREEDOMOur forebears came to this country many in convict ships and chains,And backs showed the scars where the cat-o-nine tails had reined.Australian culture has developed since...
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Charity Should Begin at Home
CHARITY SHOULD BEGIN AT HOMEClearly Charity and Drought are two words that don’t seem to fit together,Especially here, where the government doesn’t seem to care about the weather.But Typhoon...
View ArticleThe Black Dog Returns
The Black Dog ReturnsThere is a black dog hanging round and scratching at my gate,For some unknown reason he seems to think he’s still my mate.I tried to hunt the mongrel cos I don’t need a...
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A Celebrity in Prison sic `Rolf`
A Celebrity in JailI wonder how it is for a celebrity in jail, for Rolf was popular once,Now he’s doing time in an English prison, guilty of being a nonce.Most of us thought him talented and clever...
View ArticleSave Our Sons
Save Our SonsThe front page headline of The Sunday Times newspaper August 14th 2016 screamed at us with the headline `Save Our Sons` it contained some frightening figures of service people that were...
View ArticleThe Battle of Long Tan
The Battle of Long Tan The Battle of Long TanFifty years ago in a rubber plantation in the Asian country of Vietnam,D company of the 6th RAR were forced to take a stand.Engaged by small arms...
View ArticlePolitical Correctness Gone Mad
Political Correctness Gone MadThis Political Correctness crap, well I think most Aussies have had enough,Of the things that are really important the PC brigade couldn’t give a stuff.They...
View ArticleMore on the Flag an older poem
OUR FLAG-(Rewrite)I saw on the news one Australia Day, some bloke burn our flag,I tell you when he spit upon it; I just about lost me rag.Our flag is something that once would cause the whole country...
View ArticleThe Great Australian Freedom
I recited this poem at the markets in Jurien one day and a woman came up to me and said she felt sorry for me :) so when I got home I wrote a poem called `Don't Feel Sorry for Me`If this poem upsets...
View Article`Don't Feel Sorry For Me'
DON’T FEEL SORRY FOR ME!I was reciting a bit of poetry from under the shade of a tree,When a woman asked me name, then said she felt sorry for me.It seems to me she had the bull by the horns instead of...
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