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Poems - Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
| | Old Telegraph Road...Jindivickby liarbird
Between the shoulders of, Old Telegraph Road
that one time was gravel to carry the load
of day to day traffic that swirls up a gust
and covered the foliage with a layer of dust.
Old Telegraph Road is a servicing source
for homesteads and dairies on the length of its course,
there’s a working stone quarry that’s made quite a scar
and there’s much more to see as you travel by car.
This rolling hill country with scenery so grand
is a blending of nature and dairying land,
and so there is one thing that is sure to please
when you stop for a visit and try Jindi cheese.
Wattle Creek flows under, Old Telegraph Road
where a shy platypus has made its abode
in slow drifting water beneath paper-barks
with a background of song by Eurasian skylarks.
The skylarks are noted in fields from up high
as their song warbles out from a dot in the sky
where cattle are grazing on clovers and rye
without taking notice of cars driving by.
Beyond the shoulders of, Old Telegraph Road
between new tar and fodder or crops that are sowed
barbed wire and gates split what farms are here for,
and scrub that’s retained as a bird corridor.
You’ll find if you park and go strolling between
roadside vegetation that is varied in green
the twining fringe lily that is fragile and blue
and hidden by grass are the sun orchids too.
It pays to be wary where you put your foot down
in tiger snake country veiled yellow and brown
amongst the leaf debris and thick bracken fern
where quick fleeing rabbits will always return.
And a Fairy Wren family of Jennies and Jack,
(who is given away by the blue on his back)
is leading his family through a hakea shrub,
and then lost in a thicket of acacia scrub.
And bush rats have tunneled a perfect escape
in blown grass and bracken that they did reshape
where flax lilies clump with their flowering done;
now bright purple berries do shine in the sun.
Near a stringybark stand that is bare underneath
grows scattered in clumps; the common pink heath
and spinebills are feeding from flower to flower
and sprinkle the leaves with a light pollen shower.
In the stringybark canopy blocking the sun
there’s a chorus of tweets and a warbling run
from a magpie that rests after searching the ground;
and king parrots screeching does also resound.
On a high rise I stand and I gaze to the East
where haze from the eucalypts sharply increased
and a cypress windbreak grows along a fence line
with Mount Baw Baw back dropped in the sunshine.
Now progress is rife, no more pot holes galore
for the surface is tarred and the dust is no more
but Old Telegraph Road still carries the load
between Jackson’s Track and Main Jindivick Road.
Old Telegraph Road is a servicing source
for homesteads and dairies on the length of its course,
now a quiet Sunday drive is so pleasant on tar,
and there’s so much to see as you travel by car.
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by Phoebe on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 (04:49:08) |
This is brilliant story telling Lindsay...you have a great gift my friend...  Phoebe
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by liarbird on Friday, May 11, 2012 (22:13:29) |
G'day Phoebe...
Thanks Phoebe, but I must say I enjoy all of the poets who write about their surroundings. You have taught me some things about NZ that sent me to google and I thank you for that.
Lindsay
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by rondo on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 (07:48:19) |
a botanical/zoologic treat here lindsay....love your descriptives...the details give us foreigners mini tours of your wonderful country and its colorful people.....great poetry
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by liarbird on Friday, May 11, 2012 (22:17:44) |
G'day Ronald...
Like I wrote to Phoebe, I learn a heck of a lot of many parts of the world through poets on this site because your poems lead me to google.
Thanks Ronald
Lindsay
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by wolfinwindow on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 (09:14:31) |
Lindsey, you have to be one of the nest poets on the sight. Your poetry is so easy to read and so enjoyable...I wish I could take a Sunday ride on old telegraph road!!!
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by liarbird on Friday, May 11, 2012 (22:21:52) |
G'day Linda...
Thank you Linda. Do you have any poems posted about the area you live in? If you have can you post the titles. i'd love to read them.
Lindsay
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by Essex68 on Thursday, May 10, 2012 (04:34:55) |
It's always a pleasure to read you work Lindsay, I know I'm always in for a ryhme fest. Brilliant mate.
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by liarbird on Friday, May 11, 2012 (22:25:57) |
G'day Wayne...
Thanks for dropping in again Wayne with a comment. It's the only genre I seem to be comfortable with.
Catch you later Wayne
Lindsay
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by omegapaf on Thursday, May 10, 2012 (12:06:04) |
i'm so glad you put this in the cowboy poetry section lindsay. the outback is the last vestige of the true cowboy......or possibly sheepboy in australia ha ha - birdboy and wild hound.
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by liarbird on Friday, May 11, 2012 (22:31:20) |
G'day Paul...
It's sheep country in the drier part; beef cattle up north; and where I am, it's dairy country. Sheep tend to suffer foot rot here. There isn't a section that is for story telling or ballads so I guess a cowboy section comes close.
Thanks Paul (tell Jessica happy mothers day)
Lindsay
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by MoZark on Thursday, May 10, 2012 (12:09:26) |
You’re a story telling dude with no equal. This was a wonderful road trip; it was like I was riding down Old Telegraph Road. Have a grand tomorrow…Jack
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by liarbird on Friday, May 11, 2012 (22:34:46) |
Thank you Jack...
I think if we are rural dwellers we all have these sights and sounds, but many people take them for granted.
Catch you soon Jack
Lindsay
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by maryanns on Thursday, May 10, 2012 (12:26:05) |
Oh what a beautiful and relaxing drive through the countryside this morning, replete with local knowledge to fully comprehend everything we're seeing. Who could not totally enjoy the beauty and variety along Old Telegraph Road? Wow, I surely did! Thanks for sharing this bit of Australia with us. Cheers and smiles, Mary Ann
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by liarbird on Friday, May 11, 2012 (22:38:56) |
G'day maryann...
I guess I am bit like you maryann. Through your poems it is easy to tell that you absorb the beauty and see beauty where others see nothing.
Thank you maryann
Lindsay
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by ossy on Thursday, May 10, 2012 (13:52:02) |
This was done with real clever wits and careful poetic construction and I enjoying bit of painting artistically done with good words and rhymes.
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by liarbird on Friday, May 11, 2012 (22:42:12) |
G'day there ossy...
Thank you mate. I appreciate your comment and yes, I do like to try and paint a picture with words.
Catch you later ossy
Lindsay
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by floatingpoet on Thursday, May 10, 2012 (18:53:08) |
An amazing ride,
Threw the country side,
Buddy how have you been? I'm in exile in the keys. I was run out of my own town by the cops taking me to the loonie bin after they destroyed my boat without a warrent. The story is to long to tell but it all started after I posted a poem on here called I'm a sea captain don't need a micrphone. I attached the poem on every facebook wall in Beaufort SC. It didn't work out good for me. So I'm living on fish and food stamps now. I did publish a book. Google ""true adventures of the floating poet" anywho missed yaz buddy!
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Re: Old Telegraph Road...Jindivick
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by liarbird on Friday, May 11, 2012 (22:48:07) |
G'day there Capt'n Mike...
I assumed that you were trolling the ocean for fish. Oh yes, I knew you have a book out. Have the coppers read it yet? Surely they'll get a laugh out of your work as we all have. I will google and send a pm.
catch you shortly mike.
Lindsay
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