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I knelt to peer at my brother’s face
In the light of the early morn,
The face of the man I’d grown to love
Since the day we both were b..
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I lay a-dream in Byron Bay
And felt a voice to sigh and say:
‘Get up, get up,
There’s much to be done,
And more to be seen, to be work..
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Before the mountains
Quake and fall away,
And rivers dry, or
Turn to scattered clay,
Could I live to see the day
Come Quickly!
Before the hea..
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My mind is musty, overgrown
With weeds and deeds the years have sown
And names untold that never left a face,
I turned to you to find you’..
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To the memory of Gus Brittain.
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Deals with my frustrations with T.S. Eliot's 'Waste land',
and all his other cold, emotionless works.
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An exercise in alliteration
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Based on a headstone in the Raymond Terrace Cemetery
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Out of the nightmare came a dream,
Out of the night, the dawn,
A thousand bombers overhead
The night that I was born…
The world was filled ..
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If all the world were pen and ink
And all the folk were sorrow,
If all the trees were burly breeze
And Wednesdays, come tomorrow,
If all the stars..
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