Carry me back to the bush when I die. Its there that I always could rest. Bury me deep in the deserts red earth On a dry riverbank in the west. Take me back home to the stock camp Out on the endless red plain Let my soul know the peace and the quiet Of […]
Ode to the Nurses by Smiler Hales
29/05/2021 By Leave a Comment
Coolgardie Miner – 9 June 1898, page 4 The wretched typhoid microbe Is feasting in my chest; I’m doomed beyond redemption, By the cursed goldfields pest. It’s ‘elp me, nurse, ‘nd soothe me, nurse, Put ice upon me ‘ead; Take a message to me mother, nurse, As soon as I am dead. I’ve broke me […]
Camooweal Billabong – a verse
22/05/2021 By Leave a Comment
Camooweal Billabong – by Ray Jackson:- A hot dry wind came from the south so constant and so strong I had to stop so looked and found a shaded billabong I knew at once this special place had a story it would tell so there I camped to sit awhile and give myself a […]
The Deserted Camp by Jules Raeside
15/05/2021 By Leave a Comment
The Deserted Camp by Jules Raeside 1929 Deserted now- no more you stir’d By those in quest of gold Now you’re but a memory blurr’d Of what you were of old Yet though the camp of silence sleeps Except for songs of birds There’s language in your silent heaps More eloquent than words. You speak […]
The Meekatharra Hero by A E Wallace
08/05/2021 By Leave a Comment
The Meekatharra Hero Rise up you noble warriors Australia’s boldest sons; And stand at ease a moment Behind Australia’s guns. For we’ve just unearthed a hero Who should commandeer the cake, Who, alone and unassisted Killed a deadly twelve-inch snake. Talks of Roosevelt in the jungle And his tales of blood and gore. How he […]
