ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

To celebrate the annual bush poet's competition in Derby, breakfast presenter Alice Plate invited two of the entrants to share a one minute poem about which place was better to live; the town or the bush.Teacher Peter Crawford from Wangkatjungka School near Fitzroy Crossing represented the bush and renowned poet Ed Mahon from Broome represented the townies.





The road to
Wangkatjungka
(Wonkajonka)
near
Fitzroy Crossing.

Today I heard some Bush Verse read by poets nearabouts
they both were avid rhymers, one a Bushie the other Town.
Their words were flowing rich and fast to capture my attention,
but at the end, I must admit, both earned an honourable mention.

Travelling the Great Northern Road way back 2005
was when I treked way out from Broome to make a camp in Darwin.
I’ve written rhyme about this trip, some which goes ker-plonka.
Oh ! How I wish I’d taken time to visit Wonkajonka.

©. Rimeriter.

Thanks for posting this - I never knew how that was pronounced and now I do...isn't it a fabulous name, it just rolls off the tongue.

Fiddled just in the interest of keeping the rhyming right to uphold your name so to speak

Today I heard some Bush Verse read by poets of renown
they both were avid rhymers, one a Bushie one from town.
Their words were flowing rich and fast to capture my attention,
but at the end, I must admit, both earned an honourable mention.

I travelled in 2005 the Great Northern Road – way back
when I headed out from Broome to Darwin, a dry dust track.
I’ve written rhyme about this trip, some which goes ker-plonka.
Oh ! How I wish I’d taken time to visit Wonkajonka.

That big termite mound reminds me of something I have seen recently - some kids movie character....it will come to me

Cheers

Maureen

"Ta" Maureen,

I might even vary it a bit - a dry 'n dusty track.

Just to keep the rhythm right.

I have a beaut image of 'that' road, but couldn't post it, so stuck in the mound instead.

"ooroo"
Jim.

Some of the termite mounds are surprisingly old, - many go for fifty years or so and there is one recorded instance of a mound that was likely to have been 100 years old (and therefore, so would it's queen have been.)

When the overland telegraph line was being built in 1872, the top of one mound had to be removed because it would have interfered with the wires. Because of its size, it is assumed it was several decades old at this stage. In 1935, it was still active. By 1950 it was found to be abandoned.