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    Australia...My Heart
    Australia...My Heart
    Australia...My Heart
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    Australia...My Heart

    By Rosa Christian

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    About this ebook

    This anthology of poems is inspired, for the main part, by my seven month road trip around Australia in 2009. While most definitely have their feet firmly planted on Australian soil, many can easily translate across international boundaries.
    I hope you enjoy the poems and that they inspire you to get on the road and have a look for yourself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRosa Christian
    Release dateMar 25, 2011
    ISBN9781465929730
    Australia...My Heart
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    Rosa Christian

    Rosa Christian came to the writing of poetry rather late in life, after her children struck out on their own journeys. She has regularly won or placed in poetry competitions since that time. She has self-published, “My Fish Loves Me”, a collection of her early works and “Australia...my heart”, inspired by a recent solo, driving holiday around Australia. She has her Master of Arts (Writing) from James Cook University, Townsville. She continues to write - poetry, short stories and currently 2 Psychological Crime novels and 2 Fantasy/Scifi novels.

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      Book preview

      Australia...My Heart - Rosa Christian

      Peter Watt - International best-selling Australian author of

      Cry of the Curlew, Shadow of the Osprey, Flight of the Eagle,

      The Final Frontier, Papua, Eden, The Stone Dragon and many more.

      "Sometimes funny, sometimes sad but always reflective, Rosa Christian has the knack

      of making us think about the world around us through her truly wonderful poetry."

      Australia My Heart

      by Rosa Christian

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Rosa Christian

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold

      or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person,

      please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did

      not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to

      Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work

      of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Australian Morning Song

      Summer Street

      Lively Lorikeets

      The Cockatoos

      Until Death us do…

      Lucky Me

      Plain Lament

      Ode to a fence

      Rest and Recuperation

      Country Livin'

      In the 'Burbs

      Ode to Melbourne Cup Day

      Monsoon

      Sunset

      The River Ran

      Passing Through

      Snapshots of a Blue Mountain Holiday

      It's Raining

      What I Missed the Most

      Freedom Falls

      Night Shift in a Quiet Country Town

      Thanks Dad

      Homesick

      Journey to Freedom

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      Kookaburra

      Morning Meditation

      Heart of my Heart

      Isolated

      He Waits

      My Spiritual Home

      Roast Chook

      The Pilgrimage

      Impressions of Port Arthur

      Glimpses of Saunders Beach

      Partners

      Stripped Bare

      Alzheimer's

      An Ode for Mavis

      Reality Theatre

      An Old Hippies's Lament

      Absurd Birds

      Building Bridges

      Followed by a Rainbow

      Reality Check

      A Taste of Heaven

      A Cracker of a Night

      As I Walk the Quiet Waters By

      A Christmas Prayer

      My Garden

      Whale Watching

      An Asian Theme

      My First White Christmas

      Boys at Play

      The Footprint

      Paluma

      Sundays are

      Curlew

      That Sky

      The Desert Speaks

      Step Back

      I Belong

      Australian Morning-Song

      This morning, for the first time in a long time,

      woke and lay listening to the morning-song,

      not during the quiet echoes of its closing refrain,

      rather, at its beginning, as the first bird sang,

      joined by a myriad voices, a mighty ‘allelujah song.

      There was no lilting, musical harp notes of thrush song,

      no gentle, controlled harmony of dulcet worshiping

      this was the crash of cymbals on the flow of a drum-roll,

      loud in the quiet, soft on hard, sad sighs held in laughter,

      eager, energized, individual voices blending in the one song.

      A song, not of a puerile and meek acceptance of life's lot,

      but a shout of defiance, a rise to the challenge of the day,

      not so much a, ‘’Thank you, Lord.’, as a ‘Thank the Lord!’

      Not a mild gratitude for blessings as yet unbestowed,

      but a laughing, exultant, expectant call to, ‘Bring it on!’

      On a background of twittering and chirping of smaller birds,

      ring out deeper bass tones, high and eerie countermeasures,

      sweet magpie song that storm-bird answers with a haunted call,

      Pee-wee, lorikeet, honeyeater, dove, cockatoo, finch, currawong,

      each vying for her place in the scheme of this morning song.

      Wave on wave of voices, rising and falling, filling my ear,

      beating time with a wild, free-spirited call; deeply spiritual,

      blending brown earth, dusty bush, unfathomable blue heaven.

      An uneasy start to the day for those timorous souls unattuned,

      to the joyous cacophony that is an Australian morning-song.

      Summer Street

      Staccato notes rise lazily in the leaden air,

      falling unheard on ears deafened with life,

      the hub-dub of myriad voices lift and crash,

      waves on a lonely shore.

      Movement surrounds, abounds, confounds,

      so many people going nowhere so quickly,

      others stroll lost in their selfish oblivion,

      searching for a destination.

      Trumpet notes trip and slide unnoted,

      over heads stuffed full of self absorption,

      its sound surfs the sultry air waves,

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