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    Aussie poem

    Aussie Poem

    The sun was hot already - it was only 8 o'clock
    The cocky took off in his Ute, to go and check his stock.
    He drove around the paddocks checking wethers, ewes and lambs,
    The float valves in the water troughs, the windmills on the dams

    He stopped and turned a windmill on to fill a water tank
    And saw a ewe down in the dam, a few yards from the bank.
    "Typical bloody sheep," he thought, "they've got no common sense,
    "They won't go through a gateway but they'll jump a bloody fence."

    The ewe was stuck down in the mud, he knew without a doubt
    She'd stay there 'til she carked it if he didn't get her out.
    But when he reached the water's edge, the startled ewe broke free
    And in her haste to get away, began a swimming spree.


    He reckoned once her fleece was wet, the weight would drag her down
    If he didn't rescue her, the stupid sod would drown..
    Her style was unimpressive, her survival chances slim
    He saw no other option, he would have to take a swim.

    He peeled his shirt and singlet off, his trousers, boots and socks
    And as he couldn't stand wet clothes, he also shed his jocks.
    He jumped into the water and away that cocky swam
    He caught up with her, somewhere near the middle of the dam

    The ewe was quite evasive, she kept giving him the slip
    He tried to grab her sodden fleece but couldn't get a grip.
    At last he got her to the bank and stopped to catch his breath
    She showed him little gratitude for saving her from death.

    She took off like a Bondi tram around the other side
    He swore next time he caught that ewe he'd hang her bloody hide.
    Then round and round the dam they ran, although he felt quite puffed
    He still thought he could run her down, she must be nearly stuffed.

    The local stock rep came along, to pay a call that day.
    He knew this bloke was on his own, his wife had gone away,
    He didn't really think he'd get fresh scones for morning tea
    But neither was he ready for what he was soon to see.

    He rubbed his eyes in disbelief at what came into view
    For running down the catchment came this frantic-looking ewe.
    And on her heels in hot pursuit and wearing not a stitch
    The farmer yelling wildly "Come back here, you lousy bitch!"

    The stock rep didn't hang around, he took off in his car
    The cocky's reputation has been damaged near and far
    So bear in mind the Work Safe rule when next you check your flocks
    Spot the hazard, assess the risk, and always wear your jocks!
    Only a Rat can win a Rat Race!

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    Very good.
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    i was waiting for a croc to become involved

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    The Geebung Polo Club

    It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub,
    That they formed an institution called the Geebung Polo Club.
    They were long and wiry natives from the rugged mountain side,
    And the horse was never saddled that the Geebungs couldn't ride;
    But their style of playing polo was irregular and rash --
    They had mighty little science, but a mighty lot of dash:
    And they played on mountain ponies that were muscular and strong,
    Though their coats were quite unpolished,
    and their manes and tails were long.
    And they used to train those ponies wheeling cattle in the scrub:
    They were demons, were the members of the Geebung Polo Club.

    It was somewhere down the country, in a city's smoke and steam,
    That a polo club existed, called `The Cuff and Collar Team'.
    As a social institution 'twas a marvellous success,
    For the members were distinguished by exclusiveness and dress.
    They had natty little ponies that were nice, and smooth, and sleek,
    For their cultivated owners only rode 'em once a week.
    So they started up the country in pursuit of sport and fame,
    For they meant to show the Geebungs how they ought to play the game;
    And they took their valets with them -- just to give their boots a rub
    Ere they started operations on the Geebung Polo Club.

    Now my readers can imagine how the contest ebbed and flowed,
    When the Geebung boys got going it was time to clear the road;
    And the game was so terrific that ere half the time was gone
    A spectator's leg was broken -- just from merely looking on.
    For they waddied one another till the plain was strewn with dead,
    While the score was kept so even that they neither got ahead.
    And the Cuff and Collar Captain, when he tumbled off to die,
    Was the last surviving player -- so the game was called a tie.

    Then the Captain of the Geebungs raised him slowly from the ground,
    Though his wounds were mostly mortal, yet he fiercely gazed around;
    There was no one to oppose him -- all the rest were in a trance,
    So he scrambled on his pony for his last expiring chance,
    For he meant to make an effort to get victory to his side;
    So he struck at goal -- and missed it -- then he tumbled off and died.

    By the old Campaspe River, where the breezes shake the grass,
    There's a row of little gravestones that the stockmen never pass,
    For they bear a crude inscription saying, `Stranger, drop a tear,
    For the Cuff and Collar players and the Geebung boys lie here.'
    And on misty moonlit evenings, while the dingoes howl around,
    You can see their shadows flitting down that phantom polo ground;
    You can hear the loud collisions as the flying players meet,
    And the rattle of the mallets, and the rush of ponies' feet,
    Till the terrified spectator rides like blazes to the pub --
    He's been haunted by the spectres of the Geebung Polo Club.

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    Nice one BD. Did you write that?
    Only a Rat can win a Rat Race!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Laava View Post
    Nice one BD. Did you write that?
    oops didn't copy and paste the last line. - AB (Banjo) Patterson.
    Waltzing Matilda, Man from Snowy River and my personal favourite:

    Clancy Of The Overflow

    I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
    Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,
    He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
    Just `on spec', addressed as follows, `Clancy, of The Overflow'.

    And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,
    (And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar)
    'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:
    `Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.'

    In my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy
    Gone a-droving `down the Cooper' where the Western drovers go;
    As the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing,
    For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.

    And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him
    In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,
    And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,
    And at night the wond'rous glory of the everlasting stars.

    I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy
    Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,
    And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city
    Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all

    And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle
    Of the tramways and the 'buses making hurry down the street,
    And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting,
    Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.

    And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me
    As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,
    With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy,
    For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.

    And I somehow rather fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy,
    Like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go,
    While he faced the round eternal of the cash-book and the journal --
    But I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy, of `The Overflow'.

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    This one can also get you laid:


    As Long As Your Eyes Are Blue

    Wilt thou love me, sweet, when my hair is grey
    And my cheeks shall have lost their hue?
    When the charms of youth shall have passed away,
    Will your love as of old prove true?

    For the looks may change, and the heart may range,
    And the love be no longer fond;
    Wilt thou love with truth in the years of youth
    And away to the years beyond?

    Oh, I love you, sweet, for your locks of brown
    And the blush on your cheek that lies --
    But I love you most for the kindly heart
    That I see in your sweet blue eyes.

    For the eyes are signs of the soul within,
    Of the heart that is leal and true,
    And mine own sweetheart, I shall love you still,
    Just as long as your eyes are blue.

    For the locks may bleach, and the cheeks of peach
    May be reft of their golden hue;
    But mine own sweetheart, I shall love you still,
    Just as long as your eyes are blue.

    'As Long As Your Eyes Are Blue' first published in The Bulletin, 1891.

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