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Camooweal Billabong – a verse

22/05/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Camooweal Billabong –   by Ray Jackson:- A hot dry wind came from the south so constant and so strong I had to stop so looked and found a shaded billabong I knew at once this special place had a story it would tell so there I camped to sit awhile and give myself a […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Deserted Camp by Jules Raeside

15/05/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Deserted Camp by Jules Raeside 1929 Deserted now- no more you stir’d By those in quest of gold Now you’re but a memory blurr’d Of what you were of old Yet though the camp of silence sleeps Except for songs of birds There’s language in your silent heaps More eloquent than words. You speak […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History

The Meekatharra Hero by A E Wallace

08/05/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Meekatharra Hero Rise up you noble warriors Australia’s boldest sons; And stand at ease a moment Behind Australia’s guns. For we’ve just unearthed a hero Who should commandeer the cake, Who, alone and unassisted Killed a deadly twelve-inch snake. Talks of Roosevelt in the jungle And his tales of blood and gore. How he […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Meekatharra, Western Australia

In Old Paddington Cemetery

17/04/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

In Kalgoorlie’s north, away out in the scrub Where nobody’s shoulders you’re likely to rub On an old winding track one scarcely could see Well hidden by bush is an old cemetery. And those lonely old graves with headstones of white Would appear to be ghosts should you pass by at night. Here graves are […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Gudarra, Paddington, Western Australia

The Gabanintha Beer Strike

20/03/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette  -19 May 1904, page 3 The Gabanintha Beer Strike. I wonder if you chaps as writes the papers ever thinks about the price of beer a up here and other sorts of drinks It seems to me you fancy that the centre of the earth and the end of […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Beer, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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