Now don’t you knock the greenies man you know not what you say

In the Pub to his mates his verses he reciteAnd they always applaud him much to his delight.His wife Karen has left him with their Primary School going daughter and sonShe lost him to rhyming she tells everyoneFrom work to the pub and then rhyming till lateHow could a man like him become her soul…

For she was a talented woman a wonderful piano playerA very creative musician and people like her are so rare.She too was a poet and a singer songwriter I often heard Noella singHer beautiful voice so distinctive to it had a melodious ringSo well loved in the Yarra Ranges and none there to take her…

I’d buy a working Llama, I’d climb the mountain trackAnd Llama close behind me my luggage on his back.Above the Andean mountains the hunting condor flyFor hours on end on windless day he hover in the skyI’d travel this vast continent four thousand miles or moreThe plains of Argentina the hills of Ecuador.I would boat…

He migrated to Australia from New Zealand as a young man and to his Homeland he never did returnAnd he lived without a home in Nature’s garden and from the life of one like him we do have much to learn.By Max Jones the country detective and author in book form Possum’s story has been…

‘Saying’ see you in Melbourne in two weeks time but how was I to knowThat we were never more to meet no never ever no.Five days went by and I phoned her flat her flat in AdelaideAnd no reply ‘methought’ in Ballarat she’s been delayedAnd then I phoned her aunt who had bad news and…

Just your Mr Average fellow who knows of life’s hard slogThough always fiercely on the side of the poor underdog.I once had poetic aspirations and to poetic greatness did aspireAnd some of the old poets of my younger years I greatly did admireBut I was young and foolish then for that was years agoAnd dreams…