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Monthly Archives: April 2013

Twilight to Night to Dawn

30 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by Dennis N. O'Brien in Bush Poetry, Nature

≈ 8 Comments

Tags

Australian bush poetry, australian formal poetry, Australian traditional poetry, bush poet, poem, poetry

Bush_Twilight

The shades of night are falling
As westward sinks the sun,
And soft the curlews calling
As day is almost done.
Clouds cloak the far horizons like shrouds spread o’er the dead,
As swirling flocks of parrots fly swiftly over head.

The moon it faintly shimmers
With soft and silver light,
And blinking starlight glimmers
Like pin pricks in the night.
The kangaroo feeds quietly, the emu seeks its nest,
As those who slept by daylight, are rising from their rest.

The possum climbs and scurries
Where the koala sleeps,
While over fallen branches
The carpet python creeps,
And dingoes sniff the breezes, and search the bush for prey,
Until the darkness passes, and breaks, another day.

© Dennis N. O’Brien, 2013

The Breaker

24 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by Dennis N. O'Brien in Bush Poetry, Historical, War

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Australian bush poetry, australian formal poetry, Australian traditional poetry, Boer War, Breaker Morant, bush poet, Harry Morant, poem, poetry

Breaker_Morant

If you encounter any Boers
You really must not loot ’em!
And if you wish to leave these shores,
For pity’s sake, DON’T SHOOT ‘EM!!

Harry “The Breaker” Morant, February 1902

The Breaker

Were your mates butchered by other men
In a wild and foreign war;
Were you to fight in a devil’s den
Where the gun was the only law;

Were you to witness the murder there
That no rules of war decreed,
Would you have then thought it right and fair
That the murderers be freed?

Would you have taken the fatal blame
As the victor’s cup turned sour,
As a sacrifice to the Empire’s shame,
And be shot in the final hour?

The orders whispered, to this end led,
And the bullets would end dispute,
For the cowed were silent, the others dead,
And straight would the bastards shoot.

© Dennis N. O’Brien, 2013

Passive War

03 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by Dennis N. O'Brien in Observation

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Tags

Passive Aggression, poem, poetry

The foe who’s weak but wiley knows
The damage wrought by subtle blows.
Words seemingly benign, inert,
But so designed to wound and hurt.
For words can stab deep like a knife
To bleed and tire the stronger life.

The passive enemy is sly
And never looks you in the eye,
But by obstruction seeks to goad,
By stealth and cunning to corrode
And wear defenses day by day
By waging war the passive way.

Prometheus

01 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by Dennis N. O'Brien in Observation

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Tags

australian formal poetry, poem, poetry, Prometheus

Gustave_Moreau_006

Prometheus to man gave fire,
No more the need to shiver.
Zeus, by an eagle, sent his ire,
To eat each day his liver.

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