Bora Ring Poem by Judith Wright

Bora Ring

Rating: 2.3


The song is gone; the dance
is secret with the dancers in the earth,
the ritual useless, and the tribal story
lost in an alien tale.

Only the grass stands up
to mark the dancing-ring; the apple-gums
posture and mime a past corroboree,
murmur a broken chant.

The hunter is gone; the spear
is splintered underground; the painted bodies
a dream the world breathed sleeping and forgot.
The nomad feet are still.

Only the rider's heart
halts at a sightless shadow, an unsaid word
that fastens in the blood of the ancient curse,
the fear as old as Cain.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Hugh Mungus 26 October 2016

This poem is a very very very I want to neck my self poem This shows no skill of rhythms at all I would prefer to watch the intro of dora which at least makes some sense. I recommend taking it down and re-thinking a life profession.

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Blake Kang 03 April 2017

you are gay and fat

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Hugh Mungus 26 October 2016

hahaahahhahahhaah this makes me laugh! hahahahahahahahahaahhaaha! ! ! This is the worst poem i have ever read ahahahahahahahaahahhaah

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Blake Kang 03 April 2017

probs the only thing you've ever read you illiterate fuq

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Jesus 27 April 2022

He *said to them, "Let us go somewhere else to the towns nearby, so that I may preach the poems of judith."

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vedy good 21 February 2022

vedy good

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trevor mcgregor 31 March 2021

wow

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el foxo 10 December 2020

wow dis is so good rito pls fix austrelia hehe fug

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rito-kun 09 August 2022

teemo buff?

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please stop 28 July 2020

please stop being rude

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Judith Wright

Judith Wright

New South Wales / Australia
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