OUR FLAG

[william williams]

now Bob I will not hold them while you skin them mate cause they can scratch

[Rimeriter]

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Lay of a Lonely Bugler
*
A
bugler
stood on a lonely hill
as soldiers do
as buglers will
to sound those notes
of a final post,
for comrades lost
he might be there still.

His silvered bugle
did not sound a note
before upon his flag
a vale he wrote
when he fell full length
and laid his head,
the large white star
took a
splash
of
red
**
©.Rimeriter. 2011.

[Rimeriter]

This is another i found in my storehouse.
I think it was 'penned' following a Commonwealth Games.
Obviously it includes some retrospection along with internal reflection -

“Flag of Stars”

Emotions surely can be stirred when our flag is hoisted high
as a tear begins to trickle from a true-blue ‘Aussie’s’ eye.

Anzacs stormed the beaches under our Australian Flag
at times a tattered piece of cloth, a blood stained, dirty rag.
Symbolic of true courage away from ‘Aussie’ shores
at battle fronts and beaches in others far flung wars.
The Union Jack reminds us of our initial history,
Southern Cross is rampant, signifying our place for all to see,
a large and brightly shining star stands for all Australian States
heraldry important to most ‘Aussies’ and their mates.

Emotions surely can be stirred when our flag is hoisted high,
a tear begins to trickle from every true-blue ‘Aussie’s’ eye.

At Commonwealth and Olympic, sporting battles regularly,
contested from within our shores or far across the sea
our athletes strive to be the best, to hold aloft the ‘Gold’
courage is symbolic for others to behold.
The Union Jack reminds us of our initial history,
the Southern Cross is rampant, our place for all to see,
a large and brightly shining star stands for all Australian States
comradeship important to all ‘Aussies’ and their mates.

Emotions surely can be stirred when our flag is hoisted high
and tears begin to trickle from every true-blue ‘Aussie’s’ eye.

(c). Rimeriter. 23/8/02.
Flag + Colour added 26/11/11