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In name of god
untitled
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
Untitled
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
Killer's Son
Old Sadie at the corner
Fred
Jack's near death experience
Four Schoolboys and a dog
Fred the poor mouth
What care I
Ned Buckley
Daisy
The Cat still wander free
The Pride of Kilinadrish
Manuel
Sorry such an easy word to say
The hills beyond Rathmore
I love the word hope
We may have great plans for the future
Peterborough
The war children
Sugar Ray
We need more love
For late June remarkable weather
Venus Bay
A Song of Life
My best friend John and I 'for Eoin M'
Phil Ruddock says
Mickey Looney
George from Bordertown
Some People are just ignorant
Nicole
Nancy Blake
My fight for Irish freedom
The spirit of Frank Berry
George Soros
Turlough Carolan
When Pat's Newdown won the cup
Zoo Lion
An Agitator
That wood belong to me
The secret power in music
When Tanyard Heather won the Laurels
Jud Sheehan
When someone call you a Drongo
There must be a god for trees
Tipperary Springs
Harmless Ben
To Erin on the death of her Pony
Jenina
The flame of first love
Bill Brien
Den Jack
Duhallow in mid January
Joe the infidel
On the erection of a new cross
The night the cross smashed in two
A song for the Unsung
Opshopitis
Victim of the Deathman
Kiwi Dave
The strongest always rule
Since the days of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Spiros
Adam
The soul of Betty Trencher
They say
I grew up in a time of many changes
An August night in Sherbrooke
No Point
Oh sing us a song of Wonthaggi
Know all
Cool Tubrid water
On the death of a friend
In the rushy fields of Millstreet
The Poet Liam Ladds
Old Tom the Bushman
Old Joe sad to say 'Sept 97'
Con Dennehy
An interesting possibility
San Remo
Life was n't meant to be easy
The manly man
A stranger in Kilcorney
On reading poems and songs of Burns
Somewhere in life
Timmy the barber
Big Joe the one time millionaire
Our Brother John
Old digger Luke
The beautiful Camellias
A dream of damnation
Rich and Poor
I wish you'd only tell me
Legal crims
Elizabeth Shane
To Dad
On Howard's ten point plan (1997)
This story too small (1998)
Australia Day 1998
Michael Cleary
Cloudy May morning in Coolikerane
New age People and Greenies
When one door closes another opens
Donal Brady
Of late this life
Four seasons in one day
She chose the father figure
The white winged Chough
I love these quiet gum woods
A perfect world
Dan Leary
The man who took on big brother
Woman in the morning
Donald
Respect that other person
The darker side of Sydney
To Laurie Levy
She wrote about our mother.
Hill dweller
A moment of weakness
Something I could claim as mine
On the execution of Timothy McVeigh
The night Sir Denis was suspended
Jack Iversen will never die
Les Darcy
Stranger from a far land
Mick Kissane from Kenmare
Proud Willie
Leave Wilsons Prom to Nature
You who lit the bush fires
Presumption
November in Duhallow
On seeing European birds in N.Z.
The Divorcee
Just a memory
I love a quiet place
My god mother nature
Old Linda
When you and I
To each their own
The last of the Anzacs
So many look up to the wealthy
Where only saltbush grow
I left Duhallow but Duhallow followed
An act of cowardice
Stand up for yourself fellow
The Channel billed Cuckoo
A song of winter
September's come to visit
And she is left to face the end alone
Vasco Da Gama
Minda
Boris from Siberia
You know t'will soon be spring
Maureen Binsol
Berwick's fairest
Dan Connell
Much wants more
Not everyone looks forward to spring
Jane Margo
A farewell to Jedder
Where are the Wonthaggi miners
The sobs of the starving children
Fiona
Love with peace and justice
In the Yarra Ranges
The migrant farmer
There are Gipsies in Australia
The Unsuspecting
You should feel thankful
It has to be coincidence
Edmund Spenser
For to prove a point to daddy
On hearing of the death of John (2000)
A rainy morning in May
The spotted neck dove
Your Mother
The man who loves Wonthaggi
A farewell to Sherbrooke
The man from Kilavullen
On the death of Peter Hayes
Have you ever been to the Artic
My better days may well be gone
A man named Bill
Where love stories began
Winter memories
A victim of workplace bullying
Paul Ladds
Trix
Young Denjoe
Oh take me to the open spaces
As some men grow older
House of murder
We do not own this Planet
Do not judge me by my verses
Life's Journey
If I were a venomous spider
They applaud the evil they create
Big Jerry Shea
Jack O Ray's customers
To Jack do not condemn the rabbit
My love for this great country
You must first know how to lose
Where the Araglen waters flow
Marlena
We thank them for the memories
When we lived in Lang Lang 'for Ed'
Doug and the Possum
In Birdsland in Tecoma
In the high woods of south Belgrave
There's a party in the house nearby
I respect all decent human beings
The suit of clothes
A homeless man
Dick's homecoming
Eric Bogle
Maria of Watt Street
By the antics of the birds
Life through the eyes of Mrs Nash
Lee Emmett
a statistic of the gun
To make this world a better place
We'll stop in Gilgandra
Hell, Heaven and Purgatory
Bob Justice
People come and go
I hope
John from Wonthaggi
By the old screw creek
When you hear one talk of their country
Never believe a government minister
I fancy
Our search is for true happiness
She
Splendid weather for july
Kipling
The night is calm and frosty
Bill Singleton
The great love of the Brownings
Worry give rise to unhappiness
An autumn day
Far from his old home in the desert
On the stalkings of Anne and Madonna
For many life must seem unfair
When most Politicians talk
It's not how much you gain
Men like you are rare
Tarwin lower
Veronica
Robbie Murphy
Napoleon
Have you ever been to Mirboo north
Of what others think of me
But still I miss
In Sandringham
The wandering monk of Sherbrooke
Autumn Tempest
Lines on seeing a Goldfinch
The Ash in Winter
I see myself as a judgemental person
I wish
What a difference a year can make
Eoin
Pee wees
Life goes on without me
Whenever it is raining
On the passing of Dick Kiely
On the Governor General controversy
The pick and shovel man
The parting
For some life it don't seem fair at all
Near Kabul
Linley from Dubbo
Edward Walsh
There is to be a federal election (98)
Katie
My heart bleeds (98)
Mid april in Mushera
On the death of Margaret Kelleher
On the Wayne Carey scandal
The sun is out and shining
Peadar's Prize
Lily
Corinella
Far too many
I do not hate him
A pleasant day in mid february
It is so warm for early in december
Jimmy Mack
Overworked Fred
The memories are fading
The unsung heroes of the Himalayas
From the darkness of my bedroom
Mokoan
A memory
Not fit to be king
He is not a rock of sense
She likes the fellow like her dad
Mick Patsy
A dog named ruby
She was one I'd never seen before
My judges
Three miles east of the town
The watchdogs of the people
The sole survivor
Katie from Rathmore
Wally Lee
We've heard it all before (10-2000)
I am not proud of my country
It was meant to be
In april far away
Johnny in the past
Starlings
It don't seem very long ago
I'll have good memories of you Lew
Olga remembers
If I win tattslotto
Old dog hal
Bessy's klepto son
Kookaburra bird of prey
From a happening at the Bayswater
May god help the poor children
Millstreet my hometown
On an agument about Bill Gates
A good story to tell
Nature's friends
Murdoch and Packer
A boyhood sporting hero
A symbol for peace,freedom and justice
A terrorist is a terrorist
When Matthew Twomey raced hot rod
The grey shrike thrush has sung his final song
Lines on the death of Jer Long
Big Bill
Dick Harnedy
Where the Powlett river flow
The Fishers
The death of lonely Jim
Life it is no path of roses
Shane Warne
Shane Warne
Battler Joe
Wildflowers don't bloom
An ordinary fellow
Mountain fire heroes
A memory from childhood
Nature's secrets
Love and Peace
A man with a closed mind
Your lucky last five dollars
A little piece of history
Don't talk to me of an egalitarian society
On an old wedding photograph
Our span of time
We never have it all
For someone special
Lines on the Australian dock dispute (98)
Old Jack the poet
To George W Bush
An autumn day in Leongatha
Johnny McCarthy
No not everything in life do go to plan
A Jimmy Carter fan
Donal the vet
Life in shamrock glen
Far from the land I was raised in
Their blood flow red like ours
One man's hero
The old bush poets of Gippsland
Faded beauty
Jomo
When people ask me where I come from
Nature's first lessons
A regular know it all
To Carol McCoy
Social reject
On hearing a song for Christy Ring
To a homesick Canadian
Goodbye to cloudy skies and wind and rain
Sean Radley is to Millstreet
Home in Belgrave
Way up in the high Artic
My friends back in my prime years
Government for the wealthy
A childless man
On Maura Sullivan's illness
A memory to remember
Of Semaphore
Brian Boru
At Inverloch
Others will speak good of you
Is it right
Dermie Keeffe
The first day of summer
So much for 'T g w s b w'
The weak kneed little fellow
There's far more to Nature
To the one who found a four leaved clover
On hearing a goldfinch singing
Aliba
The Cripple
The voice of Nature
A night in late Autumn
The Refugee
Big Con
Jack and Tom
Far from
Three years on in East Timor
A windy day in early September
A song for the new year
I'm not one of importance
No they don't want McDonald's
Old Pierre
Ben from Foster
Mrs Hartnett
Song of an ageing fellow
My lovely rose of Clare
I still have visions of a place I've been
Hen pecked man
I feel life is like a battle
On seeing Pelicans at Inverloch
On the Bali bombings (October 02)
Garden Island
On Stella Cashman's bronze medal
The poor man's christmas
Bill Twomey
Charles Haughey
The punter's lucky day
On this the third day of winter
Written after a moment of nostalgia
Pauline the Poetess
The C.F.A.
One can only live in hope
The gentleman Joe Kelly
She miss her old home by the woodland
Ron
Stand aside John Howard
A journey on the South Gippsland freeway
Why do I dream of places far away
The Young woman from Mullumbimby
Collateral damage
Fanciful dream
Rabbit's nest
Wealthy but unhappy
Oh Ill bee back hopefully in spring.
If only for Sean Fay
Rhyme of a rustic fellow
I love this land Australia
Someday
The spinster's cat
David Smith
Rhyme of a Stateless fellow
One day nearer spring
Why should I miss what I still have
On a down and out on meeting the love of his life
A Contradiction
Modern poets and modern poetry
Wealthy man don't hoard your money
City man you'd best go back to town
A ballad of wasted years
To Noel who has George Bush senior as his hero
Old Ned
Murray Bridge
South Australian heat wave
My so called buddy
To Yvonne on her fiftieth
John Rankine
Not many trees in Grantville
In life they really never had a chance
It takes one to know one
The successful man
The last threshers
The champion from Mushera
Summer morning
Life isn't that bad
I'm not saying you are a racist
Chris
As we grow older
I will take you home to Millstreet
Had I the power
The betrayal of Dan McKay
He was hero of my Childhood
Mystery man
Bill Clinton's shame (1998)
A pleasant autumn morning
To a Silvereye
He is fresh in from the country
You take the road to heaven
June
Lines written on Heather's illness
Farewell my rebel Latvian (for Erica)
The butcher boy
Putin and Sharon
Dan from Ballinagree
Con and Kate
Thomas Davis bard of Mallow
Just an incident I've witnessed
Our Mr expert
To Debby on the death of her dad
Sean Moylan from Kiskeam
Old Jude
On the Olympic games
On Gertrude street
A victim of the knockers
In June in old Liscreagh
Elva Burke
Beautiful Broulee
The dying seal
Cheney and Rumsfeld
The ballad of Dan Magee
Guard Cassidy
May has come to the Cork and Kerry border
Scottish Charlie
Song of an old fashioned bloke
My past I seem to cling to
Dedicated to the memory of Irene McCormack
For Betty on her 90th birthday
Mary from Boherbue
Why
On hearing a white backed magpie singing in the rain
To a caged Greenfinch
Written after seein and hearing Bellbirds at Cardinia park
A dream of a Hanson Government (1997)
The time has come
Bull Holloway gone from Buninyong
A vision of a future life
To a caged little Corella
If only in my dreams
What right have you to judge the man 'to one with a speech impediment'
The question if
Den Joe
An evening in July
Go and have a good time Jean
By mistakes one learn
By the waters of Finnow
I have never met you Megan
Denny Murray
A song for Jimmy Cotter
Have common sense
Sorry too late
Kylie from Bayswater
Joe Zinco
Lucinda
In Nature's garden far away
Miliza
Brendan Moynihan
A Smokescreen
Finbar O
When one talks of County Armagh
The Coalminer's widow
Every good woman deserves a good man Christine
A June day in Duhallow
A winter's day in the hills south east of Melbourne
To Karen
Rhyme of an ordinary man
Goodbye Peter Reith and good riddance
Accept me as I am
Thank you Annabelle for the good memories
On hearing Irish music
The duck shooter
Gladys Aylward
Some may feel I am negative
John Howard's unofficial address to the people of Australia
why did the child in me from me go away
On the last time I see old Claramore
Ben Heeran
Memories of Connie Tarrant's wedding
Love gone sour
Vic and Vo
Peg Looney
Man and bottle
Perhaps his mind is cluttered
I've never
One asked me what I thought of Matt
Michelle's happiest day
A man's world after all
St Patrick's day upon us and the Irishman is broke
It's raining in Maleny
Sometimes love do not last a lifetime
The famed old shire of Sherbrooke
Mary O
Give me Spring
They stand on Nature's side
I once had greyhounds
On hearing that Seamus Heaney had won the Nobel Prize for literature
Old man with a strange story
Craig Harding
I've broken a promise I've made to myself
From the Gold Coast mountains across northern New South Wales
Byron
Man with an attitude problem
Old Banteer
Saffron Blue
Rupert
Denis Corcoran
I've heard you Pauline Hanson
Fifteen years out here how quick the time has gone
It was Neilly Flynn who told me
Back there between Millstreet and Ballydaly
A dangerous man
On hearing of Lal's illness
Boss's orders
A hungry belly game
Katie in her seventies
On Adrian's illness
On hearing of Genevieve's thirtieth birthday
Be thankful
The death of a hero
The martyr
Zac
Some say
My hero lives much nearer
Mushera dawn
Her Grandmother came from Cullen
Puffing Billy
One of life's noble battlers
Spring in Gippsland
Christmas day 98
Workshop poets
Bill's darkest day
From Victoria to south Queensland by car
It's raining in Wonthaggi
Mary from Newmarket
An ageing Poetess
A descendant of Edward Walsh
Anthony Price
Rob and Paul the builders
A mother remembers
The fellow from Namibia
Not all
Summer image
Spring verses
From this high paddock in Belgrave south
Alan and Kate
Lisa Trencher
Greg Trencher
My dearest friends
The brown haired one
I must be getting older
A woman from Knocknagree
On the Federal Election of 2001
Jack the miner
The frog chorus
Den Joe of Lisnaboy
My Jenny of Sunshine (To big Mark)
Mid november morning in Cowes
I wonder what the people do see in him
Thoughts of a dying man
Cormac Dinneen
Song of a rhymer
Rozara
We are only mortal
Scousy and Eugene
I will remain true to Mother Nature
Free Hallisey
Old Annie from east Kerry
In a fair world
Jim his next door neighbour
Humphrey Kelleher
A pleasant evening in October
He will never be Australia's P.M. now (2000)
Goodbye Patricia
Betty Marsden
Compared to him
Money speaks all languages
Sean Duggan
Not a thing to honour
Real men
Rani and Shadow
Malcolm Brodie
Propaganda
Old Jimmy
A splendid start to summer
On Nicholas and Margaret's sixtieth
If I should live in this country town
Broken Dreams
For their heroes they do not look too far
Yearning for Powlett
On John Howard congragulating Steve Waugh
A non stop bragger
Not one country ought to have nuclear weapons
Mr Upstart
Billy Connor from Newmarket
In Inverloch
Empathy in their world is a stranger
One worthy of a toast
John Joe Daly
It's cold for May
My sympathies are with the people of Iraq
A good person
The old man's saddest story
On talking to Christine Gillespie
Homesick Cullen man
A Coomlogane Christmas
The world is full of bullies
Camille
Pat O Connor
This man who uses the poor as his scapegoats
John don't know of the easy life
Andrew's big day
Without losers there wouldn't be winners
A spring night in Duhallow
A strange place Phillip Island to meet woman from Kiskeam
Gunfight at the County Jail
Spring Image
Ben the Drainer
The Conways Tom and Joe
Love at first glance
The signs of God
Mirko from Slovenia
Denny Owen
Maud Baily
Travel stained man
The deceitful man
The silver haired old fellow said to me
I'm a stranger in Australia
Oh I must go home to Millstreet
Johnny's erstwhile love
Wriiten at Olympic Park Melbourne
Richard Mitchell
Afternoon session
Old Jim from Derrinagree
A place that rekindles a sad memory
When children lose their innocence
Ian Milne
Like a beautiful pink camellia
In those old hills
Religious deceiver
I have never been to County Clare
On meeting Pat Evans
Oh to be out in the country
Four seasons in one day
I like the English
Victoria's weather
Irene
Liam's Birthday wish
Paddy Byrne
Young Stuart the plumber
It's not how much you gain it's how you live
There is more to life than hard work
Punch up at 'Dart man's aim'
Paddy Houlihan
A little bunch of shamrock
As we drove down through Gippsland
You wrote how Dublin made you
The story of his life to me he told
The coming of May
Pat O Shea
On hearing that Matt Duggan's son Chris had died
Eily Buckley
Oh Ireland Mother Ireland
Ned Kelly
So live long as you can
The past returns to me in my dreams
The caged Cheetah
Stray Dog Story
The ballad of Thomas Hall
She's the darling girl of Nutview
Mother Nature she will survive
From Melbourne to Adelaide
Johnny's Irish Grandmother
Oh I do recall Felicity
Don't tell me to where my heart should belong
You may imitate my accent
Maori Joe
Roy
The Travelling Entertainers
A woman with a sad story
Why should I waste my future on regret
Kathleen Looney
Jeff Kennett has this great plan for the Nobbies
Old Annie
Densy
He has got humility
A possessive man
An October Day in Millstreet
Charlie Callaghan
It should not be
The man from Ballinspittle
Song of a woe begotten man
Working man
To Mr Rundy who wrote an angry letter to the newspaper
To Denise on her fiftieth
Big Mark
Hands of stone
One of the great mysteries of Nature
For Matilda
A song of joy and sorrow
A day in May
The forsaken Man
Perhaps he's not been well of late
Dan Connor's barbed wire gate
Pat Corkery
The most important thing of all
Don't ask Jack Iversen for his opinion on Wonthaggi
My life hereafter
For one his age he's not learnt much
Song of a Hillman
Mid autumn on the Cork and Kerry border
Underpaid worker
Those who laugh last
We have not learned that much from the past
Harmers Haven
Back in Semaphore
Worrying
A summer's day in south west Victoria
The Greek people across the street
The Coorong
We do not want to hear you say
Small things bother me
I long for a place
Fear mongering
Jack and Joe
The morning is bright and sunny
Joyce
On over hearing two arguing about poverty
John
Us prisoners of fear
In the wide brown country
Casterton
Hamilton
Homesick in Geelong
On receiving a letter from Connie Taylor
Billy the humble champion
I, Myself and Me
The future's all that matter
Old Tony
Pakie Coffey
Through the eyes of Erica
Us and they
I know, I know
The pitiable
The Badger dig
A dream of Buninyong and the Crown hotel
Lines on seeing a Lyrebird
Riverside walk
Sea side greed
To Murray on his birthday
Bernette
Just an ageing battler
Those marvellous Morris dancers
No they won't go to Iraq
Jose the pride of Winter street
Something lost forever
The madness of John Clare
Eddy McGrath from Tipperary
Eileen Regan, Eileen Regan
Joe Dinneen
To Lisa on her birthday
Written after a visit to Ballinspittle
Lines written after a difference of opinion
Lowitga for head of State
Poet of the sea
Written for two young children
To Francis Ledwidge
The ballad of Rose O Shea
On seeing a documentary on the Kodiak Island bears
By the Blackwater
Johnny from Macroom
If you support a political party
Memories of Buninyong and the Crown hotel
To a Bullfinch
Glen Forbes
Good on you Susan Davies
On Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party
Peter Barling's dream
Happy birthday Nuala Taylor
Goldfish
On hearing of the death of Mary Kiely
On hearing a grey shrike thrush singing in the rain
March horse fair day
To Christina Rossetti (1830-1896)
A long time ago
Made in China
A dying country town
Paul Satchell
When first I saw you Kitty
An unpleasant memory
Beautiful and brave
Bob's Story
James Clarence Mangan
I can only live in hope
My point of view
John Mahony and Mick Loughlin
On talking to Jerry Moynihan on the phone
I love the birds
Dandenong
The Lake Poets
Dearest heart of Chestnut lane
Song of a remorseful man
To Sarah on her twenty second birthday
My life to me alone
Regrets of a love lorn man
Wanderer's lament in Shrone
Song of a mountain man
Lines on overhearing two young boys arguing about their fathers
A story as told by Dan
The woman five doors down
Christmas morning here in Melbourne
Lines on seeing a one legged silver gull
Fair day in Knocknagree
Song of a migrant fellow
The flower of peace will bloom again
The man who shattered Millstreet's dream
Australian by birth and Irish by choice
On reading of the World's 100 wealthiest people
So little time
Writen on hearing of the death of Maurice O Connor
Love lorn man
One sided love
Jim
I've heard it said that Trix who lives next door
To Rosie
To big Dave
On hearing of the passing of Bina
Countryman living in city
On talking to one who had been retrenched
Isolated by the bosses
Howard's Battlers
Joe and Ann
I just write songs about people
Robin the Poodle
The fields of Aghabulloge
To a Kangaroo dead by the Highway
Young Albie
Doug and Jodie's daughter Lilli
On hearing of the death of Catherine Owen O Sulivan
He brought me back to earth
Must we believe everything they tell us
I've not been in Buninyong for some while
Ballad of a Plebeian
Frank Riordan
The death of Rhyme
The narrow minded few
Boolara
Farewell to high tree travel towers
Aubane's jilted flower
Rhyme of an addictive rhymer
Tinker-man
Those who start war
You tell me
On hearing of the death of 'Denny the Master'
To a Chaffinch
We cannot be too selfish
The second calendar day of spring
The fellow from Macroom
The ancient hills of Toora
Yearning for Clare (To John O Mahony)
Humanity has to lose out to greed
The Dunnocks Nest
The Lake of Gortavehy
The woman from Mexico city
The moorhen chirp where rank grass grow
The last rose of Autumn
Who knows
Nicholas and Steve
It takes a certain type of person
In Castlemaine
It may be cool back there by Clara mountain
Lines on meeting the Hickey sisters
Lonely Case
One too many
Just a group I've been a part of
This story too small
The elders of my childhood years
Ray Mow from the Yarra Ranges
Matty McCarthy
The rose of Gneeveguilla village
Song for a balladeer
Earth Haven
My God
To a grey Crow
The living game
The Gossipers
Scottish Annie
Little Sean
To big Jess big Newfoundland next door
To the male Mute Swan at Melbourne Zoo
Memories of a Childhood Christmas
A view from the other side
Believe half
Serena
The Selby creek
Anthony's day out
They did not have the chance
War will be a memory of the past
The faces of God
June day dream
The Rose of Cornwall
A song for Mary Long
Pat Connors and Johnny Murphy
Nola
Where are they now
The yearn for home
Rainbow Lorikeets
I found welcome at Moloneys
So many Poets
Josie Fay
Eastern Rosellas
Duhallow Rover
Danny
On hearing of the death of Bill Keeffe
Lines written on meeting three ladies
Life goes on
Old Les
He never will become the new Napoleon
The man from Colorado
I left familiar places
Song of an outsider
She asked me why Wonthaggi
Zephyr Hart
Out of work and from Kanturk
Song of mid March
Some famous poets
Ricardo
Ivor Gurney
On reading Andrew Marvell's ode on Cromwell's return from Ireland
Christmas coming thoughts of spring
The case of the gipsy's son.
On meeting John and Eileen Tarrant
The Tawny Frogmouth
Denis Kadman
Since I've learnt to visualize
Those men of 48
The things I loved I still can hear and see
The Children of Duhallow
Jeff and Jane
McLoughlins Beach in Gippsland
She won't return for to live in the high country
Small boy grown tall
Jack Iversen
Song of a jilted man
A day to remember
He lives in the wrong side of the town
Back home in old Wonthaggi
I often think
Albert Thomason
On the passing of Lizzie Hickey
Joe Ray from Bunyip
On the passing of Dave Sheehan
Every dog has his day
He had his chance to save a condemned woman
A letter home
Joan
Fear of the unknown
For to feed their dogs a thing of such great beauty has to die
Patrick next door
On hearing a magpie singing before dawn
Serena is on the Gold Coast
Richard Kentwell
Melinda
The bloke a few doors down
It seems like only yesterday
Who says Independents don't count
I am going home to Sherbrooke (For Vin)
If you can
Mohammed
In the Local Football Oval
Attica
Birds of a feather
Robert Buchanan
Jude Jordan
She married him for his money
Oh sing us of Central Victoria
She will be home for Christmas
So Many
Beauty goes with her
Padraig O Keeffe
If I should die tomorrow
John Keegan Casey
Far far away in Australia
Drifter's lament
No two are the same
Suppose some have to lose
Unrequited Love
A walk in Nature
It's the conquerors who write the history
Visions of home
You the reaper won't ignore
The billionaire's daughter
Ann M
Edward Thomas
Thomas Hood
Jim from Greece
On the Powerlines on the Roadside
Kilcunda
In that country far away
My Critic
Memories of Rotorua
The truth can be hurtful
There's a mystery about it
Do they have a life of their own
I may as well have been a fly on the wall
One day I'll return to Boolara
Nugget
Mossvale Park
On Dr Pell's advice
Con the Lake
Ballydaly's Gaelic Football glory days
Honest John Clare
On meeting Mick Kelleher
Of God's goodness I'm not so sure
True heroes
My first introduction to Burns
No welcome for boat refugees
On hearing one reciting verses of Callanan
Will H Ogilvie
My mother would not be proud of me
He's a regular Jekyll and Hyde
Silvereyes
Sweet lass of Millstreet Town
On hearing a grey Shrike Thrush
I don't talk to others
Winifred Letts
The Plovers in the Paddock
A new and a better world
These People
Return to Nature
The most important people
Joyce Kilmer
Timmy
On learning of the news of the death of Julia Sullivan
Rob
The high and narrow road to Cullen
Knocknagree
Without a laugh a day
Old Casey
The imprisoned one
Ferny Creek six years on
Pam Ayres
Peggy O Deere
Another dead Wombat
Where the Tarwin waters flow
Bernard O Donoghue
Janine Amanda is turning forty
I'll always be a migrant from Duhallow
Maitri is Forty
Doongalla
Joan Hickey
On seeing Sanderlings at Powlett River
Laleh and Ladan
On receiving a letter from Marie
On hearing of the death of Denis Healy
Camperdown John
Coolikerane
He said and She said
Big Matt
Amazing Doris
Young Jim
On the gum tree on the road side
Alfred Housman
The boys I went to school with
Alfred Housman
Old Teddy
One Tree Hill
On James Hewitt
Those marvellous people from Brazil
Kooweerup his old Hometown
Shifty Eyes
The by roads of Duhallow
Austin Clarke
Uday and Qusay
A big nose she only can see
A Day in July
He do seem away with the fairies
Under the one roof
My Nightmare
If only women had a bigger say
Was Yeats for real
The Mother
The old dear
Is there any stopping this woman
On seeing a picture of Bullfinches
The lust of the wander was in me
Birdsland
His side of the story
The duped woman
A war damaged man
Misplaced love
Fond and happy memories
I was a young man of the sixties
Port Albert
Cruel eyes
The bells of old St Davids
He sang a song of Christy Ring
One child's hero
An anti war song
I envy our human ancestors
I did not tell my bar room mates
Amrozi the smiling assassin
Windbags
Do it have to be us and they
I just feel like bursting out laughing
Don't give him the death that he craves for
Young Annie
I feel I am a non achiever
Trentham
Old Mac
The barriers of class distinction
The Poet of poor people
Don't envy the working class man
The Poetasters Club
Echuca
Karma will be kind to you one day
A soldier and a man of rhyme
Each time I receive an email from Joan Moynihan
A song for Eileen O Connor
The Moorhen pond
Dan and Nora Sullivan
The past is gone forever
The one who talks to wombats
Young and pretty girl of Baghdad
No nothing last forever
The one
Those old hills of Toora
The reputation destroyer
A happy migrant
Mrs x
The last time I saw Clara
Michel
Chuck Feeney
The old fields of Inchileigh
Artic waders
In a world where money matters
Where the Tarwin flows down to the sea
A rat's lament
To a weanling calf
We read of the glorious battles
To a leafless tree
Oh to be back home in Ireland (To Jo)
Bess and Joan
To a Songthrush
When last I saw old Skinny
The Peoples Choice
On meeting a man on hunger strike outside the children's court
Young Jimmy the Poet
To Annette on her birthday
The Dipper
Back there in Ballydaly
Salt pan country
Masefield's Tree
Farewell
Miss conceit
One decent old fellow
Poet, Patriot and Martyr
To Paul one I knew who died young
A victim of her own sensitivity
The potato picker
Wendouree
Monday morning in Benalla
Rhyme of a working fellow
In Baxters land in September
To Janice from her Dog
The labourer's prayer
Good karma will reward you
And so this is spring
Wise up Tom Fool
When I hear you talk of losers
I am not the only poetaster
The game of life
Ambrose O Donovan
The children of the lesser gods
To Michael Collins
A down and out on meeting the love of his life
I Never
The poor getting more poor
The thing called love
The sequel of Tureengarriffe
To Bruce Ruxton
The Itinerants
Germaine Greer
Some of the so called highest of achievers
A familiar voice
Glenrowan in December
Jimmy McLarnin
Self promises come cheap
Not much to report from Wonthaggi
A Victim
The pink camellia petals
Beauty is all around me
I do not know
Kara
Written after a visit to Birds Paddock
Still the past forever is the past
The Upwey girls
The spur winged plover
Lida's Birthday
The dying boy
Spring time in Emerald
I've seen
To Joel
Jaffa
What we do not need
There is no place like home
Verbal domestic
Those ancient hills of Archies Creek
To the truck driver who was involved in a tragic accident
Spring has come to Ireland
Yellow Robin
The road to Barna bog
Angled onion
Gay Pigs
He likes to see old Clara every day
I'll always be a Millstreet man
He is a follower of God
The best road is the road out
The semi pro punter
The Wattlebirds kept busy all the day
The view from Glen park drive
The fight goes on the fight must never end
Snowy Joe
In a country church
If I had a million in money
A ballad of Clifton Hill
In the old fields of Ballydaly
There must be an easier way
I owe the man
Boys will behave like boys
May's come to Ireland
I dreamt I was in Africa
C J
Where are the children of Ireland
On having been woken from sleep by a laughing kookaburra
The man from Warrenheip street
A winter morning in Gippsland
The last bard of South Gippsland
The happy one
I'd surely give my pen away
Kongwak
I love
Old Ruby
A wintery autumn day in Ireland
I'd been back home if only in a dream
Freddie Mills
The birds sing in the wood by Clara mountain
The eastern yellow Robin
Christmas Day
The lost boy
The war on terror
The eastern Curlews
And it is so cold so very cold in Daylesford town today.
The expert
The man from Hugs and Kisses
The Japanese maple
There's snow in Olinda
A dead Magpie Lark
The more I learn about Nature
To make this world a better place
Old Vinny
The weather warming up a bit
The flowers that bloometh in the urban garden
Advice not taken
The Kallista Forest Billabong
on visiting the Arthur Streeton exhibition
Taxi, Trish and Barry G
A member of the IW Club
To Adelaide through the Coorong
Eoin from Dublin
Jim Cairns
Yvonne's sixtieth birthday
I am not a well known person
The case of drug pusher Bob
The Villians
The bard of St Mel's
The Mallee fowl
The children of the slum end
The sun shines brightly on the hills of Emerald
The mountain roads are so steep in New Zealand
The beauty of Nature
In the J C
The world is ruled by the egotistical
In Maling road by Canterbury station
Old Wacko
The best day of the year
A good woman
Oh I love Cloghoula Countryside
Christmas Day in Belgrave
Tubrid near Millstreet
Randolph Turpin
A dream of Gortavehy
The voice within
Felicia Di Stefano
They take self love too far
The lust of the wander
The thirsty old boy
The man from Gortavehy
A ballad of the Bayswater hotel
Anna's memory
My Goddess
Garrettt Vanderhope
The little black girl
Lines on meeting Mick and Patricia O Connor
Written on receiving a letter from Mary Helen
Wonthaggi Rose
On reading of racism in Ireland
Every one is gifted in some way
On meeting Margaret Kelleher
If you feel like singing a song
To David who loves Sydney and it's people
On re-reading a Child's garden of verses
An evening in late Spring in Wonthaggi
Millstreet's most unforgettable character
Do unto others
I must rid myself of clutter
Written in March 99
Many people
Hares
Guts Riley
A multicultural spot
Your relationship with Nature
The ex surf boy from Woonona
Written in November 99
Written in December 99
The man from Fishguard
In centuries from now
Willie Boy
The young people are back again
And it's all thanks to Noel C
Lorraine
A young woman from Bena
Written in February 2000
The Kurds
Edmund Blunden
I only wish to be alone with Nature
To George W
And life goes on
Lines written on hearing that Denis Kelleher had been ill
The book of life
Old Lil
To Ireland
Powlett River
Meeniyan's ex rose
In the grounds of the Monash Uni
Jimmy Cronin (written march 03)
The dancing queen the famous dancer
Song of an old fashioned rhymer
Francis Brett Young
I am not sorry no she said
Memories of Rosemary's fiftieth birthday party
Why cling to the past
Henry Lawson
John Betjeman's Cornwall
In Kongwak
Jack and Rosy
Jer McCarthy
Jill and Joe
So many
The Countryside around Leongatha
The breeding season of the spur winged plovers
To Con Kelleher of Aubane
To Genevieve on her twenty ninth Birthday
November in Rhyll
The combined life spans of three people
Written in September 2000
The gullible one
You may not
They tell you the best things in life are free
The Politician
There's not one person who don't have a dream
Release those imprisoned exiles
I don't really feel that homesick
To Collette on her birthday
On receiving a Christmas card from Nora
If ever I leave Wonthaggi
Horatius Cocles
The hills of Archies Creek
Mr Johnson
Jack of Loch Street
The Workaholic
That blameless little fellow
In our eyes
Heide Park Bulleen
I would only call somebody sir
If I should go back to Millstreet
Salute the workers
It's their government I don't like
To Mick Casey
The sword is mightier than the pen
The morning of St Stephen's day
Kathleen
If we had old Ireland here
Those grand old balladeers
Your new year resolution
She won't be going home for Christmas
A cool morning in December
Sebastian
S O
Far north of here in Duhallow
The booze sick reveller
Written in January 2001
On hearing of the death of Jimmy Ellis
It's the winners who still write the history
On Hearing of Noella Favier's illness
The great survivors
Near where Tarwin waters flow
The Outback
Timmy Connors
Just another memory
The huge surf waves at Kilcunda
The teacher of psychology
The kind hearted quiet achiever
My own self I do not seem to know
What happens to the soul
The so called role model
On the passing of Noella
The dying wish of Joan Bindy
I am one from the shadows of old Clara
Mrs Golga
The battler from Mt Evelyn
Rocky Marciano
The girl from the poverty trap
Written in June 01
Bella's Day
The Scrabble players
The Street Girls of St Kilda
Such a dangerous thing
Written in July 01
Joe from Yarram
Christine
I do not heed my friends advice
The fellow from the land of the long white cloud
On seeing and hearing a Greenfinch in Leongatha
His name not even mentioned
On receiving a phone call from Jimmy Sullivan
People from a different world
Snowball
So many so called love poems
Toots Kelleher from Millstreet
The Gray Butcherbird
The coastal suburban woman
Written in October 2001
What we do to Mother Nature
On seeing the Burns statue in Sydney
Written in October 2001
The birthday man
You may be right of centre
John Ferryman and Madeline
Written in September 2001
The poet who wrote these verses
He was a child of Nature
Written in December 2001
The lessons we should have learnt from history
The Coorong Rose
Those with great power
Con the Master
We'll have a get together for to welcome the new year.
The woman from Indonesia
The Valley that he came from
Written in January 2002
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
A rhymer from Duhallow
Like many more
To Amanda Vanstone
Glen Iris
The fields of Annagloor
On the passing of Toots February 02
The bloke from Tarwin Lower
On the passing of Jimmy Cronin
Inspired by a story that I heard on the radio
A Doggerel Day
You must know God
On hearing of the passing of Mary Cotter
A farewell to Cliff and Ann
There is no such a thing as complete greatness
Parker Clare
Joe the Dare
Harry Greb
What is your's you never should deny
Between Melbourne and Sydney
Beth
The work resistant man
Scottish Jean
The ex humble one
The suburbs grow and grow
Tyre Kicker
Sachin Tendulkar
John Sing
Jo
In Inverloch in January
On hearing of the death of Mattie Owen
I feel so disappointed
The man from Boherbue
The Rose of Derrinagree
The Pride of Kanturk
It takes every kind
In the old Castle Ballroom in Macroom
Tell them you are from Duhallow
The King in Millstreet Town
On the second week of January
In May in Lisnaboy
To a Clara Skylark
The Bush Bar Girls
He was a boy
The Browns
A memory from 85
By Leongatha Town
At Clarabeg
Old Clara Hill
Auden's time
The roads of life
A shy young woman from Kilcorney
A Wren boy from Rathmore
The country I came from
A wet August day in Millstreet
The Young Aussie
The Blackbird's song
The voices come to me from long ago
The bridge that marks the border
Tony Galvin
The Rose of Korumburra
Mick Punk
A warm August day in old Duhallow
A story by Denise
To Albert on having been late for 's o t c'
Edward Harrington
A rhymer to them is a poetaster
Burns Birthday 'Jan 25th'
We are bloody hard to please
I envy them
The Tatie Hokers of the seventies
Possum
How many have to die
We act as if we are important
He love
There's many worse off than me
The former Rose of Cullen
He has known a better day
The night the Sam Maguire cup came to Millstreet
Homesick for Semaphore
Life it just goes on
Ella Kupper
Jeffter
On Germaine Greer
A tolerant society
You seem so swell there mister
The brave young men of Ireland
Nature's garden far away
Bureaucratic thinking
On hearing a blackbird
John Shaw Neilson
I've said more than I ought to say
Big Lefty
Lines written on meeting two Kerry ladies
Her wish is to live in Wonthaggi
I must go back
I am confused in my thinking
A shy young Gippsland poet
Don't talk to me of Johnny Howard
A man in his seventies
You know who your friends are
The poor unhappy young woman
We are near life's finish line
On the banks of the Yarra
Jude from Koonwarra
The winners write the history
The laws of Nature
I won't be watching the Oscars
Hilaire Belloc
All I ask for
The Clara News
All I ask for
The Clara News
Lines one hearing two boys arguing over their dads
Where the Powlett flows down to the sea
I did feel like giving up on writing
Work weary man
To Fiona on her birthday
I always yearn for what once was
Carol's Dad
Flagstaff Gardens Melbourne
You will hang in there
We are the boys of Wonthaggi
Laments of an ill starred man
Who told the World
On hearing a Blackbird sing
An Alien's lament
They tell you that your life is your choice
Some Mother's Daughter
Labor in name only
You tell that to Robert Mugabe
Home to Kiskeam
Doubting Thomas
Our favourite watering hole
Where the Tarwin creeps on towards the sea
Big Boy
Ken
The less I know I know
The ordinary man
Joe T
Samuel
Inverloch in late February
The best of medicine
I'd love to be in Millstreet Town
Christy Ring
Jealousy
I don't know what
On passing Cromwell Street
His Rose of Tarwin
An old grave without a headstone
Big Joe and Bill
The end of my world
On receiving a letter from Noreen
Blur
You who make nuclear bombs and weapons
That must remain as a dream
Where the Finnow waters flow
For many
Shlaunman
Our past we cannot put behind us
Kit Cronan
On the passing of Rosy
How can one
The descendants of those evicted by Cromwell
The less people you know
If everyone were like him
The Dandenong Market
This week it happened in Spain
Mother Nature
English Jan
A man who knows much about Nature
A Thomas Moore fan
Some great poets
In Baxters land in March
Social Judges
The neglect of Mangan
So many Politicians
War never solves anything
You too will be one day like me
If I should go back to my Hometown.
She spread her gift of happiness
On the last time that I was in Birdsland
Our poetry critics
Birds
The peace women drum on their peace drums
Spring is in the old land
Old Lindy
I love the coastal country
For the decisions of a few powerful people
This is such a very old country
Mummy dear
What sort of idiots are we
He comes from a different culture.
Up there in the wild snowy mountains
Whenever I'm in Swanston street
At late March in old Kongwak
All you
Vincent Van Gogh
Spiritually completely broke
Champions they grow old and gray
Mr. Charmer
The migrant thinks of the old fields
A lucky boy
Poetry to the soul belong
The rill that becomes the big river
We treat them as if they are small gods
Guiseppe
A better man than me
It's the flag of your Nation
Such good memories I feel happy to recall
Red browed firetails
True love's other side
The smiling Brittany Rose
The young man from Venus Bay
The bloke who thinks he knows it all
Why should I care about those
The ghosts of the old mine shaft
Had I a Fairy Godmother
Miss X
Along the war avenue of honour
Not Really heroes at all
San Remo on an April evening
On hearing and seeing an Olive Whistler
Johnny Braggart
A long dry spell
An old song from my distant past
You tell me life on you is hard
Just one of Nature's many feathered minstrels
From Wonthaggi to Korumburra
Who do these people think they are
Old Bess
The Bullfinch he is faithful
Ladybirds
You feel that the world is against you
Suppose that's what makes people so interesting.
To Mango Tree
Mid April in Olinda
A farewell to Woofy
Becks and Posh
Joe's greatest disappointment
What is this life
Were I a horse
On seeing Southern Right Whales
We live in an ageist society
Tip Kelaher
In green old Duhallow
Going Home
The World I'd love to live in
Good luck to you I say
The noble unsung hero
A migrant here and a stranger there
The Koalas of Raymond Island
The lust you had for life
Only one fight
Each to his or to her own
Jobs for the the boys
Dirty Suburban Factory Chimney
Oh devout man as you call yourself
She was the Rose of Yarram
The rain drizzling down in Kallista
Tom Kettle
The only man she ever loved
History repeats itself
A parting
As people we all are so different
We only hear one side of the story
The daughter of a traveller
The Zimbabwe Rose
In this vast and sparsely populated land
If I
Those that I see as heroes
I'm just your average fellow
Just west of Millstreet Town
Big Mal
I've had one or two drinks too many
On reading of the death of Fintan Kiely
An email from Nuala Taylor
Mine is such a banal existence
The old musician
May in Inverloch
The same old Robbie Murphy
Children should not have to be homeless
The non swimming man of the sea
People here from many Nations
Money is all that seems to matter
Bill from Merino
To some he is seen as a hero
The hypocrisy of some
Do not hate your neighbour's cat Mandy
Lost tradition
One apart
He never will go back
In Claraghatlea
The myth of immortality
Some people have a sad story to tell
The egotistical
Old Fred the sugar daddy
Jim's last walk
I fancy I am walking
The future belong to the young
She runs up the street
The more others try to control us
Alluring Goddess of Poesy
The Pride of Canovee
You are not a fountain of knowledge
To a caged Orang Utan
An admirable woman
I did not mourn for Kennedy
Some people like the rose tree
Joan Lynch and Billy Corkery
To John Ryan
He is a wandering fringe dweller
The poet's dream
Because of us
Suppose she cannot live by trust
Good memories will remain with us
The men who built this Town
From the day we are born
In sleepy old Cape Paterson
Big headed Harry
Amazing Goddess of Nature
I have not forgotten
Will we ever learn
Joy Serwylo
On David Hicks
He never will go home again
The soul has wings to fly
If I should go Tomorrow
On hearing and seeing Yellow tailed black Cockatoos
One worse off than you
She did not seem very happy
The Poets long gone
Jean Hickey
Alan Seeger
One lie leads to another lie
Self praise it is no praise
All of those I went to school with
A Winter morning in Glen Iris
So you feel life is tough on you
Out here in the high country
She is that lovely woman
At least you stand for something good
These boring radio chat show
Stand back
Thomas Campbell
You may as well be happy
The Shearer's Widow
What's life about
The potential for goodness
In Claraghatlea by Millstreet Town
A morning in late June
She does not belong to you
The more we know the less we know we know
The pride of Knocknagree
I love time out with Nature
We are the common people
She was in high school in the early eighties
In the heart of every migrant
Our values are so different
Christie the Queen of Song
On hearing of the death of Kevin Hickey
Some Mother's young Daughter
Old Sammy
For there is more to life
Oh you who walked upon the sea
Aldo Moro
Allow him to dream of fame
When you gobble with the Turkeys
I do not want to know
John from Fishguard
Crows are very clever birds
In green old Ballydaly
A wet day in July
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)
Indira
Have you known
I have never
Young Al
Some Women
In Castlemaine
Joe the ex greyhound trainer
Those who are cruel to animals
A beautiful day in Winter
Glasgow Jean
The last rhyme woman of Gippsland
Paul Congues
Child of the lesser Gods
Some dream
Dean
Abu Ghraib
Another Federal Election is looming
Bob says
Jennifer
I did not ask to hear
The former young Rose of the town
Out there
Racism is around me everywhere
The Przewalski horse
Oh ancient hill of Clara
I will oppose the men of war
I long to be away from here
When you talk of winners and losers
She said to me
I had no power to keep you
A secret of Nature
Good memories remain with me
There is hope for the future
The night is rather calm
When last I was in Buninyong
The heroes of my school going days
Donal Hickey
A cowardly man
I will not criticize you
Billy Murphy
Some of you poets
Above the wide brown country
Snowball is back with his hens
Old Joe from Macroom
You may be great at something
In the land of the blind
What have we learned from history
Happy birthday talented one
Will I be here
A war widow
I am one of the lucky few
Old Bill
Rose of London
From the heaven you are near to
Man go home to your family
An August day in South West Gippsland
Bureaucracies rule the world
In flights of nostalgic fancy
Another Olympic games for the wealthy only
Deirdre's Site
Old hills around Archies Creek
Youth and Age
You love, I love
An unlikely hero
When last I saw young Jo Jo
Do not tell him of your sorrows
Sing us songs of refugees
Others I cannot blame
What am I supposed to do
It will not matter to me
On Brunswick Street
House Sparrows
The Man from Saltbush Country
To glorify war heroes
Fair dues to Willy Chaplin
Sport just a diversion
A dog's a man's best friend
True greatness
The brown Tarwin waters
The Crocodile
I'm in my late fifties
In the wooded hills of Sherbrooke
You sing your Country's Anthem
Oh bury me there
One cannot bring back the past
The Golden Wattle
To this very ancient country
Doesn't life seem hard for many
I am just reminiscing
The Southern Cross
Chantelle Newberry's Hometown
Stay brave young David Hicks
We cannot eat money
Just an ageing Poetaster
In truth you are a winner
Badger Watching
Willie Neenan is still running
Do you really stand for something
Today they buried Guiseppe
The choice is up to you
August the thirtieth
We all need recognition
Joyce Hemsley
The old fields by the Finnow
I've heard much talk of Darfur
He is part of war's collateral damage
I will not call you Mr President
Big Brother
We never ought to fear the great unknown
No such a thing
The untrustworthy Mr Howard
For one to win many must lose
Margorie the Poetess
Oh you the God Almighty
Mr Tony Blair
We are so very different
It takes two to make a fight
The price of rhyme
Bill B
Old Darky
Today a back to Winter day
You may
Two of the long forgotten
The role models of my boyhood years
Red is the blood we bleed
Spotted Pardalote
In this age of propaganda
Go save your own soul mister
'Tis easy to be weak
From the Village of John Clare
Where the Murray flows on towards the sea
Out there in the nearby paddock
Mother Earth will survive
The wander bug still in him
In pleasant flights of fancy
I won't be contemplating suicide
The dog of despair is with you
To the Finnow
A memory of the wood by Mushera Mountain
Jack the Mule
The one I see as a hero
There was a time
Don't talk of war to Ruby
The road that leads down to the sea
I will take you home to Millstreet
I often think
I had my daydreams
Fond memories of the Irish travellers
Enough talk of
What the organiser said to Dino
Carlos Delgado
Howard's battlers are not battlers
The cowardliest of the cowardly
Jim J
A rhyme of innocence
Tomorrow is another day
James Hardie's killer dust
Karma will not ignore you
In Kalorama
What's human life about at all
We are all hypocrites in some way
The miser
Mother and Child
The way for to combat terrorism
Do you ever feel
We are not so dumb after all
The memories remain
In a thousand years from this day
Memories of Jedder
In dykes and drains of Claraghatlea
Maudlin Tears
I am the bloke who write the simple verses
A ballad of wasted years
He came here for a better life
I applaud you for speaking out
Lady luck has been so kind to me
Near where the Tarwin waters flow
Con and Dotie
I still recall a memory from my Childhood
Our destiny is in our own hands
You should not despair
I'm left with the happy memories
One of Johnny Howard's forgotten
A long long way
That feeling of nostalgia
They seem such boring people
don't judge the book by the cover
What happened to the Village of his Childhood
A smile don't cost you anything
My heroes are elsewhere
On Nature I should dwell
Frogs
I was raised on rebel music
The man who talks to God
Thade Hickey
A good friend to me
The wonders of this wondrous land Australia
We leave them to their fate
Trudy
To a conceited poet
Big Andy
Nothing ever last
If you can overlook the flaws in others
A Winter day in Sherbrooke
A train journey
This must be one polluted Waterway
John and Madge
Melanie Mumford
Sages few and far between
Old memories
There's always one better around
Joe H
Difference she do embrace
The lust of the wander still in me
Don't sing us more songs of war heroes
I wish that I could have stayed in my twenties
Louis
But still I miss those bleak days of December
A holy war
Almighty Mother Nature
Louis
Our Seasons are not many
Back there in Ballydaly
All men they once were boys
Kalorama
The more aggressive
Poor John Clare
Of her none can say
Yasser Arafat
Paddy Driscoll
If these vain People had their way
Do not tell me of your sorrows
The truly blessed
The Onion Weed
Old Stu
Four more years
The reason for divorce
John Celes
Why should I respect those
They call this a Democracy
James Bredin and Kaneix
Leave me to Mother Nature
House Sparrows are only chirpers
He should get on with living life
The man from the northern tropics
Big Brother knows more about you now
A new love will come to her
The old fields of Duhallow
She often yearns for the Sherbrooke hills
The need for World Peace is Paramount
I hate the World I live in
Old Garry
On seeing a pair of Turnstone
If we all were alike
Ted
The suit of clothes
A parody 'no racial prejudice intended'
No they don't want MacDonalds in Belgrave
Southlands in the year 3000
Bosses
The eldest son of Liz the Queen
To Janice on her birthday
She was not pleased with my words
Not all Politicians
He is his father's son
John Murphy of Rathduane House
Kay
In Nature's eyes
I cling to the past
Show me
James Clarence Mangan was his name
Like his Mother Nature
Mo Mowlam
We'll drink a toast
Big Joe is on the water waggon
The things you stand for
Stu
Germs
Freedom is a thing
Your past
Aspirational People
Back there in old Duhallow
When I am gone forever
Fox hunting is banned in Britain
Connie Coakley
Old Joe
Hanna Lucey
The boys and girls I went to school with
Brush Tail Possums
We should be more like Davies
Those known as the Fringe Dwellers
I am such a lucky fellow
Mary O Dwyer
His maiden speech
The lure of Venus Bay
My only war is with myself
I thought I had left my past behind
Denny Long of Annagloor
Compassion
You may impress the impressionable
Each thunder shower is welcome
The farwell love song
In distant South Australia
Some of the girls
His old dog
Mick Cashman
I write because
Empty vessel
Penhallow
'Tis coming up to Christmas
Silence in the dread of fear
The so called good economic managers
I apologize
The devotion to patriotism
Her's is not the nine to five job
Fair dues to Joyce Hemsley
An ageing gipsy woman
Jennifer
A chance sighting
James
Our past lives on with us
The most destructive of all
Timmy Duggan
We all need recognition
Sean O Riordan
Return to Semaphore
The Mother will defend her Child
We first learned how to crawl
'Tis not
Mrs Vanstone's New year present to the Bakhtiyaris
The beauty of Nature
Bill's son Joe
Donkeys
The migrant he is never far
I love a quiet place
Tsunamis
'Tis a strange World after all
The returned young migrants
He is that big man of Wonthaggi
Old Marge
Shark attack victim
His child within
On horse back the thief
A white lie
I may seem pessimistic
The eve of New Year's Day
Nature is getting angry
The one from North Queensland
You tell the whole World you're a Poet
A man from Welshpool
Post Tsunami
The man of the fifties
Grey Kangaroos
A morning of sunshine
Remembering Nuffa
I wonder do those of royal blood
That does not mean I'm right in my thinking 'For Joe'
We are born small and naked
If only humans were born with tails
Unrequited love
Those who spread propaganda
He wore dark sun glasses
Tired
My memories of Childhood are fading
If by chance
A forsaken woman
Julie Statkus
Two Conservative Politicians
The final old hero
The conceited materialist
I envy the forgotten hermit
Sometimes in flights of fancy
Beyond our control
The ageing Sugar Daddy
Believe in your god
Sir Windbag
No such a thing
Sonny Liston
Because of me animals suffer
The tiny voice
The tiny plain brown wren
She has convinced herself
A Summer's day in Wonthaggi
Your hero will never be mine
You tell me
Don't surrender your power
Did you ever feel
You walk in the garden of Utopia
Willie Neenan is still running
Some of those
A young woman from old Wonthaggi
Get rid of
Another Young Soldier
The lust for power and money
A brown Butterfly
The man born to fail
One More Tree
Max Schmeling is still living
In Inchaleigh by Millstreet Town
Old Davy O
Rachel's Friend
If others should harm you in some way
On seeing Aussie Magpies
Expect the same boring stuff as last year
Where the Bunurong lived
It will not matter to you
A wise person
You write of
The Only God I Know
Old Jock
A grieving widow
The case of Mr Peter Qasim
A friendly stranger
In the South Western Grampians
They knock on my door
This strange thing called love
Joe Blow
The Old Poetess
Early February in Duhallow
We support the Conservative Government
The free range sow
The Poets live on in their words
The one from The Land of the free
John Coleman
Nostalgic memories of old Clara Mountain
Some people have this thing about
Old Sandy Point
Max Schmeling (28-9-1905 to 4-2-2005)
Two almost forgotten Poets
If this is what freedom is about
I am such a lucky fellow
Too much patriotism
Joseph
The Poet's Grave
The widow in the house across the street
The Ghosts of the Bunurong
Eddy and Delia Murphy of Ballydaly
Old Garry the Poet
The Whisperers
The Pheasant's Nest
Stella has turned sixty
They put labels on others
Have you ever felt so depressed
Mountleader Rolf
Each time
Why did he give his life
The past becomes the present
A Woman from Bombay
The Mountain Ash at Kalorama
From history we've not learned at all
Do not make fun of the poor woman
Congratulations Tony Abbott
Go save your own soul Mister
To a young Poet
Are you one of those people?
On hearing a Gray Butcherbird
She hates her husband but she loves her dog
The old dead patriarchs
He does not sleep that well at night
Some call me a boring old fart
Those who want power the most always get it
I was a boy of the fifties
On the Danish Royal Visit
I'm one of those under achievers
You must work to make ends meet
Today is the last day of Summer
The migrant waders are flying northwards.
Please give me one more glass of red wine
Who would wish to be born to poor parents
Words
David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George
The Finnow flows to the Blackwater
Rosy May
Rhyme verse is as dead as the dodo
These so called wonderful positive people
Ageism
Sam's Grave
Greg
I should have
One thing they share in common
So much for the Patriarchal Society
This Sunny Southern Land
Only the good die young
John Joe the Yank
Denny Murphy of Shanaknuck
We hear of
Just reminiscing
You must keep keeping on sir
The man from Nova Scotia
He is into self promotion
Michael Lucey
The People I don't wish to meet
The River that flows upside down
The fear of the unknown
Yearning for Semaphore
I've been called worse things than a rhymer
John Masefield was England's Poet Laureate
Gray haired Dave
In this World
In this World
I only have cause to be happy
Spring is now in the green Northlands
I heard the bells of old St. David's
War must be a terrible thing
Jack Iversen of old Wonthaggi
The Adelaide Hills
No two people are exactly similar
So much to learn of Nature
Only the winners that matter
He is just a troubled poor fellow
All you need is love
An Autumn night
To my own self can I be true
On receiving an email from Margaret Hickey Lochran
Those bare hills of Kilcunda
Every living thing Barring Mother Nature
Words can be so very hurtful
Religious Poets of all Nations
Good and Evil
Memories of the cold Northern Winters
The World is ruled by ageing egotistical Males
How will the World get on without him
April in Mushera
Famed Poets of South West Gippsland
The old high fields of Claramore
Linda the poetess
The Pope is dying in the Vatican
Truth can be stranger than fiction
Oh to be wealthy and famous
Mother Nature she does as she pleases
Powlett
The poor children of Iraq
Jo Mountwinter
By the waters of the Tarwin
life is a thing she enjoy
The Song Thrush
The advice from the Poetess
Forget the past the past
I feel lucky to live in this Country
Some Just
United in Death and divided in Life
Grumbly Grouser
This Whiskey
Some people may choose to dislike you
The same boring faces
How come to him anyone never do pray
Did Christ really die for us on Calvary
Memory of the Robins nest
The man from Caherbarnagh
The Woman of Rhyme
Johnny Keeffe
Phillip Larkin
The song of the Curlew
Did you ever feel
We thank Mother Nature
Enough is enough
Olinda in April
The war winners
Old Sammy
Their football team to them important
The girl from the Bush
Our need for recognition
Nostalgic memories
I believe Darwin
South Gippsland in April
Your word is your honour
Memories of Johnny Hickey
Dora Sigerson
Corporate Crims
Would I be a stranger now in Knocknagree
A Song of Nature
I want to be happy
Your pride in a flag
Some men on growing older
The woman who loves poesy
The War Hero
I do love
In the night air
We give them their power
Some men are untrustworthy
Jim Corbett
The ex Refugee
Arrogant People
Where there is life there is hope
People I knew
We are going to the distant Village
Are you such
The Scottish
Remembering Jedder
We need a World Leader
Good People
Utopia on Earth
I know this poor bloke
Their good deed of the day
AL Grassby
Out There
Get rid of
Walter De La Mare
Where the land meets the sea
Poor Margaret
Seamus Lucey
The Man of Rhyme
May Day
I'm tired of ageing Politicians
The one who did not fight for his Country
Hares
The evil I see in others
Miranda
The young and the old
She must settle for second best
Brid Ui Mhaoluala
I do grow tired of people
The high achiever
I was born by a Northern Mountain
You may be
Young Annie
A Mother Does Not
I sometimes think of Buninyong
It comes and it fades
You have your opinions
Glen Alvie
The Farm Girl
The line between
'Tis The Gray Butcherbird
Were I a horse I'd be put down
Farewell
He represents the Nation
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
The usual old banter
Marlene
A message here for all you Poets
The same
The Sugar Daddy's Woman
For each of us a pigeon hole
Each time I return to old Sherbrooke
For each of us a pigeon hole
Each time I return to old Sherbrooke
Don't talk to me of your life
You may as well go to the Bar-room
If by chance
Just reminiscing
On those old brown hills by Wonthaggi
In the future the World will be different
There are only two forms of terrorism
Robert Burns
You have it in you for to succeed
Treecreepers
Robert Cameron Hazelton
Like man like dog
Vincent Van Gogh
Don't call me a loser
A pretty face but a wrong attitude
You did not come in the winner
An aged veteran of World war 2
In death all are quite equal
A role model he's surely not
What's life about
Old Linda
With words we can be insulting
God on their side
The joy of their laughter
In the high wood by the old hill
Treecreepers
Robert Cameron Hazelton
Like man like dog
Vincent Van Gogh
Don't call me a loser
A pretty face but a wrong attitude
You did not come in the winner
An aged veteran of World war 2
In death all are quite equal
A role model he's surely not
What's life about
Old Linda
With words we can be insulting
God on their side
The joy of their laughter
In the high wood by the old hill
On torture we should not keep our silence
In the Land I was raised in
Of the new cures for ageing
Old Ken
I am not one to be talking
One lie leads to another lie
Mother Nature and her creatures will live on
Us and They
The Nature Poet
Perfection doesn't belong to Human Kind
The Laws of Mother Nature
The Footy Man
The day is cool and rainy
Back there by Clara Mountain
Billy
The old brown Bass waters
The old Doubting Thomas
A good man is hard to find
I'm on the road to nowhere
Rambling Dan
Our Heroes and Heroines
Graham Kennedy
The beauty of the seventies
Bairbre O ' Hogan
The pessimist and the optimist
Where the Blackwater flow
Self praise it is no praise
We live in a material World
Oh look at him
Goodbye to Everybody
Those Marvellous Cossack Dancers
The artist's work
Nereena
For so many
The birth of a new State
They will always be the first Australians
On hearing a bobook owl calling
True Poets write with a voice
Near the mouth of Powlett River