keith brown Poems

Words jump around the page
Like an alphabetic kangaroo!
They push my pen, invade my mind
They tell me what to do.
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Like Bookends
Without books
they lay
aside
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We came with our daughters, We came with our sons
We carried Our pistols
Our cannons
Our rum
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Where the wild brumbies roam acrosshigh mountain track, the rain softly falls on an old tin roof shack

Where the wild brumbies roam across high mountain tracks
rain softly falls on an old tin roof shack
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The yarralumla diamond

On an outback station in Queensland
A diamond as big as your hand was
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If you can stand head bowed at Anzac cove
And ask the question why?
Or walk along the Dardanelles
Where our Anzac heroes died
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Beneath a rugose ocean, the submariner
Ply’s his trade
Seeking in sensuous darkness
The rampant serpent He gave
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Theirs a view from the bridge
in the moon light
a river flowing below
small houses
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In 1869, beside
the Morses brook
trudged a weary looking chinaman
A man they called Ah Fook
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I'm empty now!
water driven from a cup
Dry as a copra husk.
I'm sinking now!
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