John D. Farley Poems

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1.
Me Old Mate Joe

My old mate Joe, his body has departed. My golfing mate, my Community involved mate, me Theater person mate, and then somewhere, somehow he sticks things in my mind. Knew and have known him. Joe is a real mate.

Some words from Joe.
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2.
Mums And Stuff, Blues

FARLEY’S COMPLETELY OBSCURE.

Oh how do you make a blues song, come out with Brunswick Valley?
Can you listen to the mournful sounds of ANZAC and the sounds of old reveille?
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3.
Mummy Dolphin And The Bub.

For several months, a mother and her baby have come to join the 'ROCKY BOARDWALK', our Village accepts everyone. These new additions ARE the 'GUESTS OF HONOUR'.


THE ROCKY BOARDWALK AND MUMMY DOLPHIN.
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4.
The Gusunder From Downunder

On the corner of Bourke and Burton, just down from Darlo’ Station.
A steamy laundry plied its trade, the best one in the nation.

I’ve never seen so many sheets, and shirts and all the rest.
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5.
Moon Bay, Ngarigo Blokes, My Special Place

Mine, Anybody's Really. Moon Bay is in us all.

What’s that bloke about this time, he must be very odd.
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6.
The Bloke From Mullumbimby

You won’t know this fella, till I get on with me prose.
But I’ll tell ya this my friends, I think he’s one of those.

Now before you howl me down and question my social status.
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7.
The Dunny And The Choko Vine

Inseperable I feels, an enigma if you will, Woolloomooloo the locale half way up the hill.
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112 Palmer Street to be correct, Grand Ma’s place of liven’.
Down the back the dunny graced by choko vine, it was our place of respite, some say by God was given’.
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8.
Pancho Me Dog, Me Dog Pancho

I had bought a milk run 1962, location; Avalon Beach, this story commences in the first weeks;
ME DOG PANCHO, PANCHO ME DOG.
What possessed me, this is midnight and blowin’, I’m all alone in me old ‘J’ van so let the repartee start flowin’.
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9.
Clareville Beach And 'Bloody Torpedos'

BIT MORE FROM ‘GRUMPY OLD BLOGGER’.

Any body remember the NAVEL TORPEDO BASE at TAYLORS POINT, via CLAREVILLE BEACH?
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10.
Mooseface, My School Friend.

Johnfarls.com, AKA; johnfarlsbrunz, AKA; john d Farley. Many schools, many places. Ordinary bloke.

THEY called her Mooseface.
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