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Poems - after the wind storm
| | after the wind stormby liarbird
The buffer and howling is strong through the night,
loose tin on a roof puts up a good fight,
something goes crashing; something flies past,
the moan at the window is ghostly and fast.
There’s damage at daylight, and still goes the whine,
there is swirl on the wattle, a list on the pine.
The strength of the gum trees are tested, but found
boughs have been splintered and fell to the ground.
Fence lines have gathered the loose and the dead,
there’s a terrible lean on a time-honoured shed,
and crops on the plains are all twisted about,
after the windstorm has finally blown out.
The country looks different and definitely prone
to the strength and the power of natures war zone.
Bittersweet truth lies with heartbreak no doubt
after the windstorm has finally blown out.
The billabongs murky, the river flows brown,
and carries green pruning, snapped and blown down,
chainsaws are cutting what must be thrown out,
after the windstorm has finally blown out.
After the windstorm, has finally blown out,
It’s just one more hurdle to add to the drought,
but farmers resilience will win here no doubt,
now that the windstorm has finally blown out.
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Re: after the wind storm
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by angeroseblue on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (08:27:11) |
i find this poem so beautiful
nice job
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Re: after the wind storm
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by liarbird on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (20:14:31) |
G'day Libby...
Thank you very much for reading and commenting...we've had some shocking wind here recently with the season changing to spring, and this is what enticed to write this poem.
Thanks Libby.
Lindsay
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Re: after the wind storm
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by MoZark on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (08:33:46) |
Enjoyed.
Jack
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Re: after the wind storm
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by liarbird on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (20:18:14) |
G'day Jack...
Thanks for reading this poem Jack...I enjoy writing these nature poems, and I appreciate your comment.
Lindsay
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Re: after the wind storm
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by nerdgirl on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (18:02:56) |
great imagery and flow. I like this
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Re: after the wind storm
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by liarbird on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (20:20:08) |
G'day Jenna...
Thanks again jenna for taking time to read and comment. I think it is visual too, and there has been a lot of wind damage in Sunraysia this past month.
Lindsay
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Re: after the wind storm
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by omegapaf on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (22:24:44) |
when mother nature really gets going, the works of man can seem very fragile in comparison, can't they?- watch out for those storms mate - paul.
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Re: after the wind storm
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by liarbird on Saturday, September 19, 2009 (00:06:56) |
G'day Paul...
It won't be long and we'll be getting sun storms Paul.
Thanks mate.
Lindsay
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Re: after the wind storm
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by plalady on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (22:40:00) |
interesting
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Re: after the wind storm
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by liarbird on Saturday, September 19, 2009 (00:05:56) |
G'day there Paula...
Thanks for taking the read and leave a comment.
Catch you later.
Lindsay
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Re: after the wind storm
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by dav.smith on Thursday, September 17, 2009 (02:36:32) |
You should try eating a sanger in one. Theres a reason they call them sandwhiches. I've seen the results of a ute that was not put away when asked.( I plead innocent your honour.), It stripped the paint of the bonnet and roof, Great read as usual. daVE
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Re: after the wind storm
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by liarbird on Saturday, September 19, 2009 (00:03:47) |
G'day Dave...
Thanks for reading Dave...are you saying that mother nature supplied you with sand paper? Too late to be pleading Dave.
Lindsay
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Re: after the wind storm
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by easyeverett on Thursday, September 17, 2009 (13:14:19) |
Lindsay your poetics sing and they entertain and they teach and they serve as an example of excellence in poetry narrative of the highest order. I am proud to be part of a site that also has your incredible talent partnering with the rest of we mortal scribes who still must till the common soil of rhetorical mediocrity. Wondrous magic you create with thy quill. tom
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Re: after the wind storm
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by liarbird on Friday, September 18, 2009 (23:58:57) |
G'day Tom...
I mirror what you say here Tom, but replace the word 'Lindsay' with Tom. You may not realize it, but I carefully recite your poems to attempt to make story telling to an audience better. I really enjoy your work Tom.
Lindsay
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by maryanns on Saturday, September 19, 2009 (23:33:55) |
Oh boy, Lindsay, we know that feeling here too. I could sure feel the wind rattling windows and breaking the gum trees in your poem. Clean up is a son of a gun.
Well done, Mary Ann
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Re: after the wind storm
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by liarbird on Friday, October 02, 2009 (00:35:24) |
G'day Mary Ann...
We are not used to the wind we have been getting this year, and by the look of the forests, neither are the red gums... branches down everywhere. Even this week it's like four seasons in one...next thing I'll be grizzling about it being too hot I suppose.
Thanks matey.
Lindsay
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by thewholesoul on Sunday, September 20, 2009 (23:40:37) |
just popping in to say G'day. i really enjoyed this poem mate, you painted a vivid picture and that word "billabong" just cant be said enough times! take it easy, conor
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by liarbird on Friday, October 02, 2009 (00:37:42) |
G'day Conor...
I was having a bit of a squiz in a billabong yesterday. I never know what I am going to see in these still backwaters. In fact, you might have given me another title for a poem... the billabong.
Thank you mate.
Lindsay
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Re: after the wind storm
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by Melly on Friday, September 25, 2009 (23:20:14) |
You must have had quite a storm there. Last we talked you were expecting one.. I think you have a song here Lindsay. Want to hum a bar? We have been having rain and storms so have been off line for a few days. Out here in the country it is the first to go . felt the power of yours in your words. Hugs melly
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Re: after the wind storm
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by liarbird on Friday, October 02, 2009 (00:40:19) |
G'day Melly...
The wind caused havoc with the Internet here...also build up of dust on electrical insulators followed by light rain caused a few blackouts. A song Melly...you'll have to sing it.
Thanks Melly.
Lindsay
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