- Last seen on Nov 3 7:06 PM. Member since February 4, 2008.
- I am a 76 year old person (Australia)
- I have 129 comments, 176 poems, 39 stories, 4 journals
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it's September 2009, and the state of New South Wales in Australia is covered in dust, literally. The experts say it is the worst dust storm in nearly seventy years.1 - Petrol Heads at storywrite
As a young and impressionable male I had the motor racing fever just the same as all my friends but where i lived there was no circuit so the aim of every petrol head was to go to Mount Panorama Racing circuit at Bathurst, N - Tiga at storywrite
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on Th’ Owd Family Bible by William Baron, on November 3I prefer the original form of the poem to the modernised one. It speaks of love going back a generation and is full of memories from other times. The modern version lacks that voice from the past. maybe I'm a bit picky but our modern language is more suited to shopkeepers and businessmen than to reminiscing about another time.
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on The Call by Edgar Albert Guest, on October 20This poem is magical to me, who sat patiently watching a magpie feed its young for over an hour this morning.
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on The Ballad Of William Sycamore [1790-1871] by Stephen Vincent Benet, on October 1This poem epitomises the spirit of freedom and adventure. I love it as it expresses feelings from the heart, and the ultimate pleasure to rejoin all that was wild and free after death has claimed the body.

Poetry written during WW1 in the 'vernacular' always came directly from the heart of the writer. Wonderful stuff, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious, but always with the ring of reality written into it.