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Australia...My Heart
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Commencer à lire- Éditeur:
- Rosa Christian
- Sortie:
- Mar 25, 2011
- ISBN:
- 9781465929730
- Format:
- Livre
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This anthology of poems is inspired, for the main part, by my seven month road trip around Australia in 2009. While most definitely have their feet firmly planted on Australian soil, many can easily translate across international boundaries.
I hope you enjoy the poems and that they inspire you to get on the road and have a look for yourself.
Informations sur le livre
Australia...My Heart
Description
This anthology of poems is inspired, for the main part, by my seven month road trip around Australia in 2009. While most definitely have their feet firmly planted on Australian soil, many can easily translate across international boundaries.
I hope you enjoy the poems and that they inspire you to get on the road and have a look for yourself.
- Éditeur:
- Rosa Christian
- Sortie:
- Mar 25, 2011
- ISBN:
- 9781465929730
- Format:
- Livre
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Australia...My Heart - Rosa Christian
Peter Watt - International best-selling Australian author of
Cry of the Curlew, Shadow of the Osprey, Flight of the Eagle,
The Final Frontier, Papua, Eden, The Stone Dragon and many more.
"Sometimes funny, sometimes sad but always reflective, Rosa Christian has the knack
of making us think about the world around us through her truly wonderful poetry."
Australia My Heart
by Rosa Christian
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Copyright 2011 Rosa Christian
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Table of Contents
Australian Morning Song
Summer Street
Lively Lorikeets
The Cockatoos
Until Death us do…
Lucky Me
Plain Lament
Ode to a fence
Rest and Recuperation
Country Livin'
In the 'Burbs
Ode to Melbourne Cup Day
Monsoon
Sunset
The River Ran
Passing Through
Snapshots of a Blue Mountain Holiday
It's Raining
What I Missed the Most
Freedom Falls
Night Shift in a Quiet Country Town
Thanks Dad
Homesick
Journey to Freedom
I
II
III
IV
V
Kookaburra
Morning Meditation
Heart of my Heart
Isolated
He Waits
My Spiritual Home
Roast Chook
The Pilgrimage
Impressions of Port Arthur
Glimpses of Saunders Beach
Partners
Stripped Bare
Alzheimer's
An Ode for Mavis
Reality Theatre
An Old Hippies's Lament
Absurd Birds
Building Bridges
Followed by a Rainbow
Reality Check
A Taste of Heaven
A Cracker of a Night
As I Walk the Quiet Waters By
A Christmas Prayer
My Garden
Whale Watching
An Asian Theme
My First White Christmas
Boys at Play
The Footprint
Paluma
Sundays are
Curlew
That Sky
The Desert Speaks
Step Back
I Belong
Australian Morning-Song
This morning, for the first time in a long time,
woke and lay listening to the morning-song,
not during the quiet echoes of its closing refrain,
rather, at its beginning, as the first bird sang,
joined by a myriad voices, a mighty ‘allelujah song.
There was no lilting, musical harp notes of thrush song,
no gentle, controlled harmony of dulcet worshiping
this was the crash of cymbals on the flow of a drum-roll,
loud in the quiet, soft on hard, sad sighs held in laughter,
eager, energized, individual voices blending in the one song.
A song, not of a puerile and meek acceptance of life's lot,
but a shout of defiance, a rise to the challenge of the day,
not so much a, ‘’Thank you, Lord.’, as a ‘Thank the Lord!’
Not a mild gratitude for blessings as yet unbestowed,
but a laughing, exultant, expectant call to, ‘Bring it on!’
On a background of twittering and chirping of smaller birds,
ring out deeper bass tones, high and eerie countermeasures,
sweet magpie song that storm-bird answers with a haunted call,
Pee-wee, lorikeet, honeyeater, dove, cockatoo, finch, currawong,
each vying for her place in the scheme of this morning song.
Wave on wave of voices, rising and falling, filling my ear,
beating time with a wild, free-spirited call; deeply spiritual,
blending brown earth, dusty bush, unfathomable blue heaven.
An uneasy start to the day for those timorous souls unattuned,
to the joyous cacophony that is an Australian morning-song.
Summer Street
Staccato notes rise lazily in the leaden air,
falling unheard on ears deafened with life,
the hub-dub of myriad voices lift and crash,
waves on a lonely shore.
Movement surrounds, abounds, confounds,
so many people going nowhere so quickly,
others stroll lost in their selfish oblivion,
searching for a destination.
Trumpet notes trip and slide unnoted,
over heads stuffed full of self absorption,
its sound surfs the sultry air waves,
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