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I’ve often thought that all the time
We spent, in spending wasted all,
And lost the chance to spend our dreams
The way our dreams would seem,..
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‘The colour has run from your shirt,’ I said
‘To lie on the churly seat!’
‘Too late, too late,’ said the surly m..
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Australia is a big, empty country, which often makes
you feel rather empty inside....
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'I’ve failed!’ How many times have sons
And fathers’ fathers echoed me?
‘I’ve failed! My life was spent in dreams,&rs..
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As I was driving slowly by
Some Gundagai or other, I
Was heard to sigh, or make remark
‘The Tucker Dog has lost his bark "
His ..
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And so to this then,
The last word on the last word penned.
The tides of life have caught me unaware,
And in the depths and shallows
I have fo..
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Pregnant women positively bloom...
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Whenever I dreamed, I seemed to set
Some faded poem in motion, yet,
I’ve only recalled but one vignette,
But one vignette, repeating;
A sh..
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What thought fear burns
Along long lonely, nightlit turns;
With day’s light fled
And I, the last long spark
Of reason, crackling on
Thr..
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I grew up playing in the rubble
of the Second World war.
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