ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Hi All I’m Dave Smith
I am just a retired working man with a bus load of kids, grandkids and great grandkids, I learnt Australian Bush Poetry at my Mothers knee side i.e. Banjo, Henry, John O’Brien and the like, reading poetry and reciting for other folks is what I like to do and am now having a shot at writing some. I have had no formal training in English or writing but with lots of help I just might make it.

My other hobbies include carpentry so with an old cruiser and caravan we head north in the cold months and work as volunteers for the forest dept restoring old homesteads and out buildings on stations now under their care. Some time we are just grey nomads and follow the sun.

TTFN Dave Smith

Hey Dave - you made it back to the new forum! That's very interesting about you voluteering to restore buildings.

Hey that sounds really cool Dave. Can I come too? I'm ready for an adventure.

Heather

Heather you can come I need someone to do the heavy stuff and make me coffee and fetch me beer.

TTFN

How many poets does it take to fix an old homestead?
One to write about the pioneers now long-since dead;
One to write about the many trials they had to face,
recorded on the headstones on the rise behind the place;

One to write about the beauty of the outback scene;
One to write about the smell of lye and kerosene;
One to write about the future bright the home might see;
and one to hunt old bottles, a 'collector'...hey! That's me!

I'm green with envy mate.

Cheers, Will.

Sorry Dave, I think I'm busy that week - shame

Dave, I've got an old historical dunny out the back that needs 'restoring' - preferably into a tool shed with an attached granny-flat ... when can you come over?

Hey Dave, where ya bin? Have you gorn to fix up Manfred's dunny? Quiet here without you.