ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

a bit of a tribute to the oldest member of the Singleton Bush Poets.


OUR BILL


Our Bill was a horseman,
a bush drover too,
far away from his boyhood
at Woolloomooloo.
He learnt at the campfires
from hand-written sheets
and committed to memory
line upon line;
the old rhyming ballads
he still loved and knew.
Now, at eighty five years,
sadly, Bill's gone to answer
to that mystic presence,
the great higher-power.
Yes it's true folks, it is,
as sure as I speak,
Bill went out and guess what,
he got married last week.

Funny Neville!

Is there a pattern to this rhyme, Neville, or are you just following your nose?

True story Heather, Bill hailed me down town this morning and proudly introduced me to his new wife.

G'day Stephen. Who knows, it's the the nose, I suppose.

Good luck to him Neville. How "new" is the wife Neville?

They got married last Friday. A very nice lady in his age group I think, other than that, I don't wish to know.

Good luck to them I say. Not everyone can take a girls breath away ???? We can but try.

Got the message but the poem ????? Poem ????

Nah




Bob

Yes, funny poem Neville. I didn't see it coming!

Thanks for the replies Heather, Stephen. Bob.

I gather you find fault with my piece Bob, what exactly is the fault that you see?

I revised the metre a bit since your comment.