- My “Tibetan Prayer Flags” Images - My “Tibetan Prayer Flags”
Text by Jiashu Xu
(part 1)
Last year I went to some Tibetan places where I have not been before. One of the most impressive places was a small town named Dari which is about 600km south west from Lanzhou....Read all
Catg: Photography Submitted By: Jiashu Xu
- Shear No More -
There's an old Aussie shearing shed, rippling iron, and wire gate
walls of rough hewn timber, and fencing wire, number eight
full of life and standing tall?—no, that was yesterday
no children swinging from its gate, just rhomboid, old, and grey.
No clicking of the shears, no chattering of combs
just the whistling of the wind, dry kero tins, and bones
gone the blood, gone the sweat, and gone are all the tears
they're all gone forever, and have been for thirty years....Read all
Catg: Poetry / Literature Submitted By: Rob Gray
- Benjo Paterson's The Riders in the Stand - The Riders in the Stand
Written by Benjo Paterson.
There's some that ride the Robbo style, and bump at every stride;
While others sit a long way back, to get a longer ride....Read all
Catg: Poetry / Literature Submitted By: Robert Wong
- Benjo Paterson's A Singer of the Bush - A Singer of the Bush
Written by: Benjo Paterson
There is waving of grass in the breeze
And a song in the air,
And a murmur of myriad bees
That toil everywhere.
There is scent in the blossom and bough,
And the breath of the Spring
Is as soft as a kiss on a brow --
And Spring-time I sing....Read all
Catg: Poetry / Literature Submitted By: Robert Wong
- Henry Lawson's In Possum Land - In Possum Land
Written by Henry Lawson.
In Possum Land the nights are fair,
The streams are fresh and clear;
No dust is in the moonlit air,
No traffic jars the ear....Read all
Catg: Poetry / Literature Submitted By: Robert Wong
- Henry Lawson's When the Ladies Come to the Shearing Shed - When the Ladies Come to the Shearing Shed
Written by Henry Lawson.
‘THE LADIES are coming,’ the super says
To the shearers sweltering there,
And ‘the ladies’ means in the shearing shed:
‘Don’t cut ’em too bad....Read all
Catg: Poetry / Literature Submitted By: Robert Wong
- Henry Lawson's A May Night on the Mountains - A May Night on the Mountains
Written by Henry Lawson.
’TIS a wonderful time when these hours begin,
These long ‘small hours’ of night,
When grass is crisp, and the air is thin,
And the stars come close and bright....Read all
Catg: Poetry / Literature Submitted By: Robert Wong
- Henry Lawson's The Cattle-Dog’s Death - The Cattle-Dog’s Death
Written by Henry Lawson.
THE PLAINS lay bare on the homeward route,
And the march was heavy on man and brute;
For the Spirit of Drouth was on all the land,
And the white heat danced on the glowing sand....Read all
Catg: Poetry / Literature Submitted By: Robert Wong
- Henry Lawson's The Song of the Darling River - The Song of the Darling River
Written by Henry Lawson.
THE SKIES are brass and the plains are bare,
Death and ruin are everywhere—
And all that is left of the last year’s flood
Is a sickly stream on the grey-black mud;
The salt-springs bubble and the quagmires quiver,
And—this is the dirge of the Darling River:
‘I rise in the drought from the Queensland rain,
‘I fill my branches again and again;
‘I hold my billabongs back in vain,
‘For my life and my peoples the South Seas drain;
‘And the land grows old and the people never
‘Will see the worth of the Darling River....Read all
Catg: Poetry / Literature Submitted By: Robert Wong
- Benjo Paterson's Old Man Platypus - Old Man Platypus
Written by Benjo Paterson.
Far from the trouble and toil of town,
Where the reed beds sweep and shiver,
Look at a fragment of velvet brown --
Old Man Platypus drifting down,
Drifting along the river....Read all
Catg: Poetry / Literature Submitted By: Robert Wong
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