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The quiet achiever
Far north of here
The old miners of wonthaggi
Stan whose wife left him for a woman
There in the gray of the morning
The nicest person
A pleasant day in gippsland in july
An old dog's dreamings
Toorak
The Cootamundra wattle
Rotorua the thermal city
Aussie Joe
The atheist
Nell
Ricky
Maori greeting
The Poet
Black Caesar
The poor souls of the station
Her dream is to live in Inverloch
Out there on the plains of somalia
The fields of Claraghatlea north
The jogger
A bunch of flowers
Dark skinned boy
Have you ever
The gold coast sugar daddies
Bill the poet and Mandy
Billy of one hand
The Australasian little grebe
There he goes 'the kangaroo'
I could not bring myself
The odd one out
The victim
Mosquitoes
The ring tail possum
The ballad of wandering jack
On reading poems of John Clare
The loves of Rosita
Joseph Louis Barrow
The boy who was dunce
The cardinals are singing
The Willy Wagtails
Old Stan
Makarora
On reading Kipling's 'If'
The timid and the brave
The Koala
Pipit's nest
When the finnow is bank high
A migrant in this land I'll always be
A man for every sleeper
The black face cuckoo shrike
Return of the lapwing
Crimson rosellas
The singing lady
Jack without rosie
A new year song
The stonechats nest
He is that man
Cockatoo twelve years on '1995'
Mick Kelleher will never be an aussie
Agapanthus
Mati Hari
Where once was was beauty
Cindy
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There's more to life
The cape hunting dogs of africa
The spanish aussie
The queen of hearts
Pete the raggy
Flattened nose
Semaphore
Nuffa from Buninyong
Joseph was a carpenter
A product of the society we live in
The Sunflowers
Mike
The dying migrant
The survivor
Gray Fantails
On finding pheasant's tail feather
For Anne
Karma for Montt is still waiting
The christmas party
Spring brook mountain
Rosebank
The anonymous one
On the death of 'Flo Jo'
I saw god in gortavehy
Lake Hawea
I went to see the film michael collins
Death of a baby spotted dove
The pied butcherbird
God bless the salvos
On reading poems of george r sims
A devoted man
When last i saw the redwings
Back home near ballydaly
On hearing bell miners
Up there in horses heaven
The new rural poor
On passing the avenue of honour
Claudia
The pelicans of tooradin
To damian who buried his dog 'miss'
Death of a young girl's pet
The girls of my youth
On reading poems of robert service
A long enough time span
He must know
The boats keep on arriving
The redpoll family
The fruit bats of cascade gardens
Ballad of the sinn feiner's daughter
In the little desert near dimboola
Small bald johnny
Nell morgan
Anne Boleyn
The storyteller
Paradise for me
Grey currawong
I pity them
I'd love to go home to kallista
Lillian
It's days like this
Jean
Anette tells the story of her possum
Brown thornbills
The woman in god's waiting room
The Paps of Shrone
From emerald to beaconsfield
I only want to be a better person
I am the bloke
If you can overlook
An ageist society
William cowper
'Oh' bar tender
The king parrots
Purple crowned lorikeets
Night in the forest
If i had plenty money
When i dream i dream of belgrave
Francis Ledwidge
Paterson's curse or Salvation Jane
The miracles of nature
The voices come to me
On seeing turnstone.
Ayrton Senna
On fox you put the blame
Michael
The band was playing
On a picture of a long tailed tit
The white faced herons
She found her peace beside the sea
Jane's daughter sue
Why do we have to live in fear?
When predator became prey
How sad can be this life
Helen
Miss Rosemary Quin
Wrens
The wood by mushera mountain
Family secret
I still recall the news from dallas
Written after a visualization
Oh you
Pudsy
The gray gums at kallista
The evil things men do
I feel like a leaf in autumn
The man who punched his cow
On meeting young people in benalla
An august morning at upper gully
She was a champion dancer
The new holland honeyeater
George the greek
The boy gets drunk on one drink
The newcomers
An act of man
But past glories can be forgot
The old town of port adelaide
The gippsland hills are greener
There's one greater than you
Pension town
Wild things
You cannot change the past
The Goldcrests
The wandering dispossessed
Johnny o and Jim
The australian wood duck
A tale of eoghan rua
The last great bard of mushera
Linda's perfect boring ex husband
Suppose we should feel happy
The word loser
If your god is as judgemental as you
Nowhere town
The aussie magpie
Big Annie
The glaciers near franz josef
She played upon her zither
A january morning in knocknagree
last line
Kippagh mountain lake
An evening in birds paddock
The last one of his race
The cattle egrets
War mistake
On seeing white ibis
The spotted pardalote
Violet town
She got it from american indian
The legends of the incas
The woman who loved roses
Kate ewenson
Memories of the allow
The gum tree is australian
How come it always has to be this way
I've not seen many cormorants today
A perfect ending to a perfect day
Pied wagtails
A memory ofn first love
By burning the flag of their country
I see my reflection in other faces
Nancy Blane
Ivy
The young fellow next door
What do a bunyip loook like
Pied currawong
Django Reinhardt
The old roads of Sliabh Luachra
The jingles in my brain
You made the right decision
Hope
Goodbye to you french island
Canungra at foot of mt tamborine
Thelma
What right have you to judge the man
Peace little birds
The pigeon woman
A memory of St Davids
Darren
Alone with nature
A showery October afternoon
The wake of 'Jack Will Bill'
On seeing a Willy wagtail's nest
We only read about the wealthy few
Miss Revair the Bellydancer
On Premier Bracks
On reading poems of W.W.Gibson
Joy and Sorrow
On hearing a Boobook Owl
She went for old Willie instead
By the cover you can't judge the book
It was Padraig Cronin told me
To Doris
Dick Spence
I see them every morning
A holy war
The life of Charlie
Don't worry mate
Somewhere
No use
Sally Trench
In the Village of Rathmore
George Crabbe
The wandering Albatross
The Corncrake heard no more
To love, to honour and obey
On seeing a flock of Starlings
On talking to an old Italian man
He told me Jesus loves you
I'd love to see the gorse in bloom
The murmuring cails
Don't talk to me
I'd love to be a wealthy sugar daddy
The Waterhen's wild cry
Olinda east of Melbourne
The sensitive one
The hunks of Broadbeach town
The shadow chaser
Young looking Pru
William Allingham
Forgotten People
The Dingo
The burnt out wood
Grey thrush's final song
Mistletoe birds
Stoneyford Victoria
An egalitarian society
Sam Langford
John still thinks of Australia
Grainne Mhaol
Anu's breasts
Every human life is priceless
How come
The Wombat
A relative thing
On reading poems of Goldsmith
The Skylark sing above the mountain
July in Sherbrooke
There is'nt any doggerel there
In Ballarat where history don't fade
Anzac Day
Damn all you
The bored Princess
Anne from Mallow
Selby's Woodland Creek
Who spoke
Raymond
A Song Of Sliabh Luachra
Willie remembers
The Tall Poppies
Nowadays he would be outlawed
He deserved to be treated better
Nick Rackard
Old Jedder
There must be more to us
Aaron
I still recall a memory
On reading poems of Sara Teasdale
Leonardo
To a Homesick Canadian
Bessy
The coming of Spring
The word farewell
Lady luck tonight could smile on me
Callanan
The Captive Hare
The Golden whistler
The death of Bill the basher
The Kiwi
She is from up north
On reading poems of R. L. Stevenson
A true Redneck
He Boasts
And why the poor grow poorer
Aoghan o Rathaille
In Kelly Country
Henry Kendall
Doggerelitis
Aussie Mick
In Jells Parkland
Memories of a visit to Cladoch valley
An Imaginary letter to James Stephens
It's one of those days
Suburban bound commuter
The drug baron
The newspaper headlines
Memories
Point Smythe
A Pleasant Autumn Day
Michael Davitt
Writer's Block
On reading poems of John Betjeman
On seeing Southern Figbirds
Picton
The old school house at Ruby
We gave her a bouquet of roses
Rahul
I long to go to where no one's been
There is no wrong in sowing the seeds
Mt Worth in May
Muriel's Grave
Just one of the many
A Misunderstanding
How can you leave your past behind
The ghost of Morty Cronin
It's nice to think
Cape Paterson
Major's Creek N.S.W.
The dog's name I remember
Cobargo of the snowy
Mystery bird
Wang from Leongatha
Paul Robeson
You give a coward a firearm (Sept 99)
She'd love to live in Africa
The last rhyme man of Ringwood
Shades of Autumn time
Death of a mouse
To a cow in mourning
On hearing a Whipbird
On receiving a blue Wren feather
To a Butterfly
Song of a Nature loving man
I like to think
Joe from Pakenham
The world's one hudred wealthiest
Will I return to Ballarat
The Gang gang Cockatoo
William Henry Davies
On reading Turnbull's 'Forest People'
I know a man
Sing a song of Stephen Foster's
It's a cause for much concern
Emily Dickinson
My Enemy
Adam Lindsay Gordon
They called this place Killarney
Mt Tamborine
If you choose to judge me
Faces from the past
Dolly the Sheep
Spring in Victoria
Lachlan Murdoch
The Aussie redneck say
Nelly Fay
Julian the agnostic
Lily Palmer
Memories of a lost love
I don't want to be a hero
A spring night near Cullen
The past that once was very near
The truth in Thomas Gray
She see the fairies
Those hills of Caherbarnagh
We'll all meet in Cullen
Jimmy from Kallista
Remember Catherine Oddie
This wondrous land Australia
All alone with Mother Nature
Bereaved mountain mother
Pat O Callaghan
Old Joe in the house at the corner
Some People thrive on discord
When Abba sang
On seeing a black shouldered Kite
Love don't know age boundaries
A farewell to summer
Luibin na Rince
The toughie boys fight for leadership
Old Gabby
And will we see their likes again
Were I a Poet
Castlemaine
When last I heard the Dipper sing
An autumn day near Belgrave
The Butcherbird
Arthritic Johnny
We ought to learn from life and nature
Oscar Wilde
And what is man
Act of an unthinker
Old Dorothy the cat
I have sung
And I still miss the fields of Aunagloor
The Blue Tit's Nest
The Moggie Woman
Millie
A train journey
Bill Mendy
Those green fields of Kilmeedy
Linda
Oh Mr Yeats
Have you ever watched the Maoris?
East of Wonthaggi on a night in May
Morning to remember
An April Day
Inspired by a radio story
Private Property
The Stickleback
Old Jenny
The grey Heron
Jeff
What happened to his village
On reading poems of Mangan
May the loveliest month
Aussie Brigitte Muir
By the mouth of Powlett river
Leah the beautiful
Barraduff's finest
Susie Maroney
Mattie Grumpy
Myxomatosis victim
The Caged Java Sparrow
Each time I hear a Skylark
The Knockers
Jenny's husband
The Sanderlings
Lines on the death of a favourite dog
All alone in the big city
She say
Drifter's lament for his dog
To a stream
September's brought the Spring
It's been said
A warm city with a cold cold heart
When last I saw old Selby
Death of a Dove
Memories of Pad the Master
Maud Van Heer
Lovesick Johnny
I went in search of Rednecks
On visiting Neilson's Cottage
Now don't you knock the greenies
Quietness is nearer than some realize
Jack Johnson
Our fair go for all
Where suburbia the woodland meet
The blackbird young
Hanora Moynihan
The power of money
The Queen's thank you to P.M. John
Millennium Party
Felicia Hemans
The mark of a man
Fergie
To the Blackwater river.
Flame Robins
The call of the sea
Nibbles and tea
Pray for the wanderer
Fun and games
The Great Tits nest
I must seem quite old fashioned
The fellow who does n't fit in
Where the rivers meet
A Song of Aunagloor
Not much in Koonwarra
The middle class snob
Where the Blackwater flow
Loneliness
The things that we tend to ignore
On the arrest of Milosevic (2001)
It's the winners who write history
Maureen
Beauty has many faces
Marcel Cerdan
Young Zed next door
An old Soldier
I wonder if Shakespeare
Threshing days
The rolling hills of Adelaide
Such is life to John Francis Hickey
Had I the gifts of a true bard
Plastic Face
It can be true
To him do I have to explain
Thosen ever pleasant memories
A cynical point of view
Your horrid day
We create our reality
Paddy Casey
Death the leveller lives on
Australia
Mr Silent
Life on Earth goes on as usual
I love a walk in a quiet place
Wild Bunnies
To them the strangest one of all is me
On hearing of the death of Laurence
Lost Nostalgia
On reading poems of Chesterton
On this Australia day
Stress
I will make the most of every day
Lucy Hope
William Ricketts
Old Jack the Poet
Anna
The man from Ballydesmond
That little town by the sea
To Fedelinas
Lines on a rural loving man
Doing their own thing
To a caged Cheetah
I love the Spiny cheeked honeyeater
The shlaun man
Sliabh Luachra's narrow roads
Outback boy
How great my love for these old hills
Mary my favourite aunt in Lisnaboy
Eddy sad sack
On Genevieve's thirtieth birthday
On hearing a grey shrike thrush
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Of Semaphore
The high and narrow Loch road
It's not like christmas
One hundred years from now
Eoin still talks of his father
Did you ever
Young Fred
Vanessa Veal
An April day near Mushera
The old bloke from Colo Valley
Dave would not live in Sherbrooke
Johnny rags of Melbourne Town
What makes for a good person
Luke's Clients
Mother Earth
Big Denis from Rockchapel
John Masefield
The word called Destiny
The Platypus and Echidna
I left my heart
Vasco Da Gama
Francis Thompson
On the sunlit beaches at Bondi
To Lyn
The Fir Bolg
Just a lonely old lady
So much for human rights and liberty
St Patrick's Day
In fields near Ballydaly
Kate the spinster
Neilly Joe
Young David
John Ackland says
From the experiences she's had
The ex Government minister.
Yesterday's man
Your stories mate
And he is now a wiser boy
On days like today
In all of our lives
Porth Cele
May
Gabhairin Reo
A victim of human cruelty
Feathering his own nest
It's only money
Patrick Looney
Lew Germaine's Lookalike
When will I see old Clara's face again
Between Dimboola and St Arnaud
You blond haired woman
Rodani
On the Finnow bridge at Drishane
Simon
there's one greater than you
A February day in Archies Creek
On meeting a friendly person
The high bog road to Gneeves
Elvie
The Solicitor.
To Alan O Connor a young K.R.R. fan
On seeing an injured Silver Gull
The Gippsland hills
I love these cool evenings
When I am gone.
In the fields of Carriganimma
My Heroes
Davy Mac
Briany
White fronted chats
Suburban Woman
To a new millionaire
On the death of Mother Teresa (9-97)
In Shoreham
David Dean
The Indian Mynas
Your life story ought be told
City Man Goes Back To Country Boy
I am not nostalgic person.
Woodland woman
To the Yarra river
You laugh the world laugh with you
Richard
Bush Peter
A fellow from the Cork and Kerry border
Sara Hobbs Connor
Gippsland Drought.
The Yobbo
I fancy I can see you old Duhallow
The Miners of Lightning Ridge
On seeing a pair of Powerful Owls
A winter day in Sherbrooke
The eastern Swamphen
Message in a bottle
Empty moments
Pete
They will only see decay
An Inspirational Woman.
Nicky
Nancy Gray
The ballad of Oscar Romero
Just a small house by the ocean
The Olive Backed Oriole
John if only
Susan
Honest Peter
For to reclaim the night
Jama
Love Song
The Gambler
The Bush Stone Curlew
Rose from Bairnsdale
On hearing a blackbird singing
Ted and Rover
On Australia's Federal Budget (98)
Kilkenny near Adelaide
The beauty of November
A memory from nineteen fifty seven
Gareth from Swansea
Riordan Treylourne
You can't have everything
By the Torrens river
For to build a bigger town
The noisy miners
Body language
Jack from Maryknoll
Sooty Oystercatchers
Poor Jack the ramp
Cry of the Boobook
Sue Dennehy
Rose from Wonthaggi
On seeing a photograpgh of Marilyn
Oh Johnny dear Johnny
The Sparrow's nest
On hearing of the death of Bill Sullivan
George from Northampton
John the odd
Serena the wanderer
Hilda
The Deserter
In the Nobbies
Helen's ghost speaks
How good again to walk in the sunshine
Now don't you fault the toughie boys
And Henry Kendall's verses I remember
My Daddy won't be coming home
Lines written after a dream
The Crescent Honeyeater
Written at Broadbeach Queensland
On reading Blake's 'Little Black Boy'
Guiseppe's dark haired daughter
A migrant in Wonthaggi
The Neighbour's Peacock
I write because
Old Billy
Mavis
And I should know
I once was a Roman Catholic 'to Joe'
Twenty Rooks
Blind Maree
The Blackthorn Hare
The Rosy Bay Hotel
In That old House in Tugun
Old Jim from Mayo
On reading of the mad cow disease
The Grim Reaper
Return of the Redwings
A long long way
Bella mourns for a departed beauty
Galahs
Scottish Kenny
We are here but for a short span
The man who was not there
What use to you
Tennyson's Brook
Rest in peace Jerry Hickey
The Bogland near Rathmore
Mary Sue
The white eared Honeyeater
Old Vasco
Memories of the death of Den Looney
On receiving an invite to Mckelveys
The Fox of Hawthorn Glen
Peter Lalor
The paper boy
Where are my friends
Wish I were born Basil
My wish is for a perfect world
Rich man Poor man
Tony
If I find Poesy
The Magpie Lark
An Evening in October
He needs someone to help him
The Irish still remember
My dreams of fame
A warm day on the Gold Coast
Song of a Rhyming Man
Brian
Written at Lake Condah Mission
Ireland's Unworthy Heroes (1994)
Rose
Graybeard Joe
I've seen some of the world
Song of a sentimental fellow
The Rufous Fantail
Spring cannot be far away
Memories of true love
In the fields of Gneeveguilla
On an April evening in the fall
On seeing Apostle birds
I only want to live and be let live
Earth's enemy
The happy town
Why do he waste his time
They judge you better
Bill feels he's Australian
A multicultural town
The old pair from West Gippsland
A memory of destroyed beauty
Green New Zealand
From high paddocks of Birdsland
I would need five thousand dollars
I have always loved you truly
The Ash in Winter
Between Loch and Wonthaggi
Man the latent predator
Song of a wandering fellow
The fields of Lisnaboy
Soldier's Tree
Tanyard Champion
Abraham Lincoln
The poor give to the wrong type power
In a Brighton Park
The ballad of Willie Pat
On seeing Yellow tailed black Cockies
A thing of joy to keep in memory
Home is where the heart is
On seeing a documentary on black rhino
The great Australian dream
The big let down
Were I a poet
Like father like son
Go out and spend your money friend.
Libby
Peter Carroll
Your Judges
Laughter
The night Philotimo won the Laurels
I've never been to the Antartic
The Jilted one
Sing us songs of Sherbrooke
Dimitri
Lake Bolac
In the Snowy Mountain country
In a world where some have too much
Black July
Now don't you think it quite unfair
Oh pity them
And from you my dear country
You tell me all People are equal
Song of the Brush Wattlebird
Lines on a visit to Port Fairy
On Seeing Little Lorikeets
Lines on meeting Maura Frehill
I called her Rose from England
The good condemned to suffer
In South Gippsland in September
When I want to see beauty
Patrick MacGill
To another land their hearts belong
Jake La Motta
Oh I must go home again
When I was a young fellow
Wonthaggi in Victoria
I only love the quiet and lonely places
Where I came from and here
My first lessons in Nature
Sarah Magee
Fred Hollows
Home in May
Song for a Fringe Dweller
To Gabrielle 'For John'
McKelvey's Daughters
To a Buttercup
We can't always have what we want
Give Port Arthur back it's beauty
Andy the reluctant hero
The Jack I remember
A Confession
Billy Braggart
Late October in Ireland
A wet day on the Gold Coast
That man with dancing feet
The lesson from the horse race
Don't believe them when they tell you
The Pacific black backed Gulls
What we do unto others
Mick Cooley
The Farewell Barby