Paul Warren Poems

Aussie Rules winters
Big Blue Spring skies
Autumns crisp with sunshine
Endless summers
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It seems curious to say
That on the first day
God touched one particle
That became the live article
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I was programmed by my genes
And by my family not to demean
For my Christian teachings agree
To help the oppressed to be free
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I wonder if fate is the hunter for us all
Should we just wait and see what’s the call?
If the fates will control where each of us end
And we all have matters for us to contend
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I am a time traveller who sees fifty years
All the good times and all the tears
I am a baby at my mother's breast
And a toddler with my first steps expressed
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What a funny word where Australian is said
When thinking that the truth may be only half read
And it is not really true but maybe you'll see
So when it is put together it could possibly be
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What would witches need for today
When casting a spell in a brew right away
What modern concoctions would they bring?
Instead of eye of newt perhaps eye of TV screen
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In a country town the word gets around
What is the latest word to be found?
He was a shabby one starting to push past forty
From the bush he wasn’t that smart or hoity-toity
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We were cadets who as part of the training went
To the Adelaide Hills in hiking and compass sent
Dropped from Echunga to find our way back
The groups of four were walking by map a fact
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The truth is what happened for all to see
Then the lawyers get to it and work it to be
The rules made it into the facts to be followed
And see what's admissible for the court to be swallowed
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