There's Gold.....

[Maureen K Clifford]

Have been playing around with this one for a while - not sure where I'm going with it. Is anyone familiar with the Gympie pyramid????

Any thoughts on this so far.


There’s Gold

As far as the eye could see old mullock heaps and detritus scattered around.
The once pristine land was battered and torn and no flowery meadows were found.
The winding gear and the ancient rusted sluice, a pannikin battered and bent
were all that was left to tell the tale of the miners who came and then went.

A thorn in the side of the big nobs in town was the mining camps scattered remains
If climbing the steeple of the town’s stone church one could see the result of their pains.
A thorn in the flesh of the well heeled in town was the grim barren site of destruction;
a great gale had even bought the huge gums down. So needed was some reconstruction.

The thought in the town was to make a few bucks and put all this mess on display
To rebuild some slab huts and put in pathways that would wonder along as they may.
Plant bottlebrush, wattle and kangaroo paw alongside banksia and gum,
to dress up in period costume some folks and then wait for the tourists to come.

It worked pretty well out at old Ballarat with their Sovereign Hill they observed
so it seemed to be reasonable so they thought – as only good stories they’d heard.
They would turn the landscape now blighted and worn into a gold town re-creation
of early Gympie as it was, wait and see – for the towns new gold rush adaptation.

Maureen Clifford © 10/12

Gympie was once cited as The town that saved Queensland from Bankruptcy