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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ABORIGINES, AUSTRALIAN Matches Found: 177 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MAN PROSPECTING, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man prospecting for the gold Last Line: He weakened, raved, and soon he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Gold Mines & Miners; Insanity; Pain; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery ABORIGINAL ACHIEVEMENT, by ERNIE DINGO Poem Source Last Line: Is like the dark side of the moon, %for it is there %but so little is known Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA, by JACK DAVIS Poem Source First Line: You once smilied a friendly smile Last Line: But I think of a people crucified -- %the real australian story Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian ABORIGINAL RESERVE, by JACK DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The long low sweeping ground, %the horizon black in starlight Last Line: Afraid of the heights of sorrow %and to fathom the depths of fears Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian ABORIGINE, by HUGO WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: He is only beautiful Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Travel AN ABORIGINAL MOTHER'S LAMENT, by CHARLES HARPUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still farther would I fly, my child Last Line: Of water now for thee. Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian AND NOW WE WATCH YOU CRAWL, YOU CRAWL, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: To name you from your mother's totem %for now, child, you are a woman Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian ARE WE THE SAME, by CHARMAINE PAPERTALK-GREEN Poem Source First Line: Have you starved? %seen your mother flogged? Last Line: You may try to understand %but never will Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian BLACK CHILD, by MAUREEN WATSON Poem Source First Line: Black child's soft mouth atremble, %angry tears in innocent eyes Last Line: To a people too cruel, %too blind to see, %the tears in a black child's eyes Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian BLACK PEOPLE CRY, by STEVE BARNEY Poem Source First Line: Black people cry %and the white people wonder why Last Line: Justice, equality and land, no longer, will the black people cry Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian BLACK RAT, by IRIS CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: He lived in a tin hut with a hard dirt floor Last Line: This once tall man came from a proud black tribe, %died all alone -- noone at his side Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian BOOM TIME, by STEPHEN CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: Calculated figures, estimated lives Last Line: Men are omly digits on little blue screen games %when the button is pushed, no one remains Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian BUDDEGLIN BEY, by REX MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: Dark clouds are gathering a way up in the sky Last Line: With a final shout of beddgelin bey %the wild storm is blown away Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian BURREL BULLAI, by REX MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: Burrel bullai!' our old poeple believed Last Line: Burrel bullai!' no matter where we may roam, %we will always call bellbrook our home Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian CELEBRATORS '88, by KEVIN GILBERT Poem Source First Line: The bluse-green greyish gum leaves Last Line: And cloak the murders in hilarity %and sing above the rumble of the hearse Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian CHILD, LEAVE THE TAPE RECORDER, by JENNIE HARGRAVES NAMPIJINPA Poem Source Last Line: Come, so that you can know your %own culture Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian CHILDHOOD REVISITED, by GERRY BOSTOCK Poem Source First Line: Oh, to be a child again Last Line: On human weaknesses and frailties. %oh, to be a child again Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian CHILDREN PLAY LIKE YUKANA, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: Like waves they crash upon the shore. %here then gone. Boys then men Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian COLOUR BAR, by OODGEROO NOONUCCAL Poem Source First Line: When vile men jeer because by skin is brown Last Line: Justice a cant of hypocrites, content %with precedent Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian CROWTHER -- OURS, by DYAN NEWSON Poem Source First Line: They're only bones the whiteman say, %so why all the fuss Last Line: They'll be thanking us in dreamtime, %for being glad we had our say Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian CYCLE, by BOBBI SYKES Poem Source First Line: The revolution is conceived %as a babe in the womb Last Line: We msut make haste preparing %while biding our time Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian DEVELOPERS', by W. LES RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Like a spear thrust deep within my heart Last Line: But I'll proudly share with all my might %and call you my own brother Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian DIRGE FOR A HIDDEN ART, by MARY DUROUX Poem Source First Line: The legendary life of a long-ago tribe Last Line: I weep silent tears as I trace each line %for these pictures were painted by me Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian DISTRESS UPON THE FARM, by LAURY WELLS Poem Source First Line: Don't try and make that home made brew' Last Line: He wnet as she first advised %and bought a jug in town Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, by DEBBY BARBEN Poem Source First Line: Do you know what you're saying %have you heard yourself Last Line: That's when you will %learn something Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian DUST STORM, by BERYL PHILIP-CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: Old man kicking up dust -- Last Line: Old man wait in comfort -- %cliff blocks out the sun Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian ECOLOGY, by LIONEL FOGARTY Poem Source First Line: I am a frill necked lizard %roaming providing Last Line: We are just trying to picture %this life without frustration Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian EIGHT BEDS, EIGHT LOCKERS, by DEBBY BARBEN Poem Source First Line: Eight beds, eight lockers %eight cupboards, eight people Last Line: Yet no real communication, %no trust, just nothing %but objects Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian FALLIN', by BOBBI SYKES Poem Source First Line: The sister has been raped, they said Last Line: Must learn again to recognize the mad-dog disease %which is again the white man's legacy Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian FEMALE OF THE SPECIES, by MAUREEN WATSON Poem Source First Line: Whoever said I can't fly? %why, sisters, I can -- can't I? Last Line: So you can throw out the book on your sexist theses, %'causeme, why, I'm the female of the species Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian FINAL COUNT, by BOBBI SYKES Poem Source First Line: The children are dying / %in terrible numbers of Last Line: We must count them / %for if we do not %they will have died in vain Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian FIRST-BORN, by JACK DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Where are my first-born, said the brown land sighing Last Line: The answer is there when I look at the dying, %at the death and neglect of my dark proud race Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian FOUR WHITE WALLS, by DEBBY BARBEN Poem Source First Line: Four white walls %three bed boards Last Line: My four hours is done %and yet they have won Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian FROM THE BOTTOMLESS WATERHOLE, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: How happy we were then; %how happy we are now, %spirit-daughter of mine Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian GOD GAVE US TREES TO CUT DOWN, by W. LES RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: My goodness; %it I was to have a say in the way things should be done in Last Line: My goodness, you should know %god gave us those rainforests to cut down... Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian GOOBOORA, THE SILENT POOL, by OODGEROO NOONUCCAL Poem Source First Line: Gooboora, gooboora, the water of fear Last Line: Gooboora, gooboora, it makes the heart sore %that you should be here but my people no more! Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian GOOD OLD DAYS, by STEPHEN CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: Back in 55, when I was just a lad Last Line: He'd been working in the noon day sun %on land %his ancestors once owned Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian GOT NO SHAME, by SELWYN HUGHES Poem Source First Line: Bludging off the old man Last Line: Why come back to the old man %to see your kin without Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian GOULBURN ISLAND CYCLE: SONG 12, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They seize the young girls of the western tribes Last Line: Pushed on to their backs, lying down among the cabbage palm foliage Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian GOULBURN ISLAND CYCLE: SONG 13, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ejaculating into their vaginas - young girls of the western tribes Last Line: For they move their buttocks, those people from goulburn islands Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Erotic Love GOULBURN ISLAND CYCLE: SONG 14, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Blood is running down from the men's penes, men from goulburn islands Last Line: Blood, flowing like water Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Blood GULARWUNDUL'S WISH, by KEVIN GILBERT Poem Source First Line: The listless dingo whelps -- lolled by the door Last Line: There's one last thing to do... %ain't it? Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian HALF-CASTE GIRL, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little josie buried under the bright moon Last Line: With a wallaby skin, and left her alone in the night? Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Women HO! BROTHER, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: Lonely rugged mountains %rule the land Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian HOME ON PALM, by SELWYN HUGHES Poem Source First Line: All my people who are still at home Last Line: Come on let's shoot this old image down %let's push away our pain Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian HORSE, by VALERIE PATTERSON NAPANANGKA Poem Source First Line: A horse is running, %running scared Last Line: Day by day, it just goes on, %poor horse, it makes me feel sad Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Animals; Horses I AM WAETCH, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: And my mother's soft voice whispers %from the peace of the camp lagoon Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian I DRINK YOUR LOVE, by LUKE ROMA Poem Source Last Line: Now I pray %that the spring %does not run dry Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian I FEEL THE TEXTURE OF HER COMPLEXION WITH BOTH HAND AND..., by ERROL WEST Poem Source Last Line: Nothing for myself, I wish to nourish and nurture--see %she grows in strength Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian I NEED APPRECIATION, by JIM CARLSON Poem Source Last Line: We'll fight you, we'll beat you, %we'll do it -- %one day! Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian I PICTURE YOUR FACE, by LUKE ROMA Poem Source Last Line: Except, a sun kissed rose %in the early morning mist Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian JACKY DEMONSTRATES FOR LAND RIGHTS, by MUDROOROO NAROGIN Poem Source First Line: The last land rights' demonstration is over Last Line: All gone, have gone from the dreaming site %along with jacky and his kind Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian JACKY HEARS THE CENTURY CRY, by MUDROOROO NAROGIN Poem Source First Line: In 1914 I was young and creative: %then I made my first attempt Last Line: Planning the final solution to myself. %jacky runs from such a terrible death Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian JACKY SINGS HIS SONG, by MUDROOROO NAROGIN Poem Source First Line: I know that I am -- %no jargon, please -- Last Line: If you want me, try your grassless parks, %in solitude, old men drinking life away Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian KANGAROO, by PANSY ROSE NAPALJARRI Poem Source First Line: Water beneath the hills, %running slowly from the creek Last Line: He smells the red flowers %so tired, he goes to sleep Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Kangaroos KIACATOO, by KEVIN GILBERT Poem Source First Line: On the banks of the lachlan they caught us Last Line: To cover the land thefts the murder %but can't silence the dreams of the proud Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian KIDNAPPERS, by IRIS CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: There were nine little blackfellas %having fun and running free Last Line: And they all keep the whiteman out %when he knocks up on their doors Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian KINIGAR, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: But the ships are white on the sea %and cruel kinigar has returned Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian LAMENT FOR A DIALECT, by MARY DUROUX Poem Source First Line: Dyirringan is lost to the tribes of the yuin Last Line: If we're to be civilised whom can we blame, %to have lost you, my language, is my greatest shame Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian LAST FULLBLOOD, by FRANK DOOLAN Poem Source First Line: The old man's almost gone %when he goes the culture dies Last Line: Cause the only land he'll ever own %is six cold feet of dirt Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian LAST LINK, by IRIS CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: The walls were the colour %of dark burnt brown Last Line: Again in the morn %but when I got there %his soul it had gone Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian LETTER TO MY MOTHER, by EVA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I not see you long time now, I not see you long time now Last Line: When I hear you my mother give me my name %I not see you long time now, I not see you long time now Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian LEX TALIONIS, by FRANCIS MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy crept out of the old box log Last Line: "and his hate kept hot, as it ought to have done." Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Boys; Family Life; Murder; Revenge; Relatives LIFE IS LIFE, by ROBERT WALKER Poem Source First Line: The rose among thorns %may not feel the sun's kiss each mornin' Last Line: Stored in the branches by those who cast shadows, %it is a rose and it lives Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian LITTLE BROWN JACKS NYIMBUNG, by REX MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: Late in the evening when the children ae at play Last Line: Nyimbung are a part of our aboriginal lore, %and are little people we really adore Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian MAC'S HALF-CASTE, by E. S. EMERSON Poem Text First Line: Mac's half-caste wife was all the talk Last Line: And back to her old wild haunts go. Alternate Author Name(s): White, Milky Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Betrayal; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARY'S PLEA, by DAISY UTEMORRAH Poem Source First Line: Where am I %you, my people Last Line: Is it really you my people, %the voices, %the soft voices that I hear Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian MASSACRE SANDHILL, by GRANDFATHER KOORI Poem Source First Line: The rain the rain the rain Last Line: The rain the rain cried %until there was only the drought Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Human Rights MEMO TO J.C., by MAUREEN WATSON Poem Source First Line: When you were down here jc and walked this earth Last Line: I wonder, it it all died with you, that day on the cross, %and if it just never got raised from the Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS, by JOY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: It's 4 pm the day before christmas asn I think of you Last Line: It's christmas night, %I am exausted, %I am loved Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian MICK DOOLEY'S PANTS, by GEORGE ESSEX EVANS Poem Text First Line: They brought a boy from tallaran to run mick dooley's tracks Last Line: "next time you want-um tracker, boss—don't get mick dooley's gin!" Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Betrayal; Hunting; Hunters MIDGIEGOOROO, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source First Line: Midgiegooroo %with your hair as wild Last Line: Just as you %hunted %possums %when a boy %so long %ago Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian MISTY MOUNTAINSS TELL ME THE SECRETS YOU HOLD, OF MEN, by ERROL WEST Poem Source Last Line: Droplets of water -- can I convince myself they are not your%tears Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian MONEENEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This is the tale of one who lived and suffered years ago Last Line: And a native boy who gave his life when safety was in sight Subject(s): "aborigines, Australian;death;heroism;horse Racing;" "dead, The;heroes;heroines; MOTHER, by BERYL PHILIP-CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: To have you at home when all have gone Last Line: Do not forsake her -- this lady of old, %as she is the mother we must uphold Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian MR AND MRS MARTIN, by H. HEAD Poem Text First Line: Some time in the month of october Last Line: "maybe they will think it his son." Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Crime & Criminals; Family Life; Relatives MUM, by KEVIN GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Fifteen dogs prowled %baying tense Last Line: And we'd do better dead %my mum she's blind' %he said Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian MUNICIPAL GUM, by OODGEROO NOONUCCAL Poem Source First Line: Gumtree in the city street Last Line: O fellow citizen, %what have they done to us? Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian MY BROTHER, MY SISTER, by JACK DAVIS Poem Source First Line: There's a gleam of the moon on the man on the rim-rock Last Line: The kangaroo comes from the shop on the corner. %my brother,my sister, you are dying too soon Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian MY DAD, by BERYL PHILIP-CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: When we were in trouble -- Last Line: Is among the great gifts %of all mankind Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian NEVER BLOOD SO RED, by GRANDFATHER KOORI Poem Source First Line: Never blood %so red so red Last Line: Whose cries for justice %bled %whose cries for justice %bled Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian NEW EARTH MOTHER, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: From the whiteman's drunken lies, %into the new dreamtime Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian NEW TRUE ANTHEM, by KEVIN GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Despite ehat dorothea has said Last Line: We weep in bitter anguish %at your hate and tyranny Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian NGARNBARNDTAR, by W. LES RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Who is that %sitting this side of my fire? Last Line: Is encroaching within the land of which %I am a part: coveting, stealing Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian NIGHT MARAUDERS, by GERRY BOSTOCK Poem Source First Line: A campfire emits an embered glow Last Line: Their men are bound helpless %as the village is slowly dying Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian NO ONE TO GUIDE US, by CHARMAINE PAPERTALK-GREEN Poem Source First Line: Feeling down %depressed %wondering why Last Line: Of our ancestors? %of our people? %to guide us Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian NOMADS, by LAURY WELLS Poem Source First Line: The night draws in with the setting sun Last Line: By the fire's and moonbeams' rays %the nomads settle down Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Nature NUCLEAR WINTER, by W. LES RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Lying in a cold hell, %it's dark, but she's blind Last Line: It she your grandchild dear? %there on her own Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian ODE TO SALTED MUTTON BIRDS, by JIM EVERETT Poem Source First Line: Mudtton birds! I like 'em I'll eat 'em any way Last Line: It's the best way known to man or beast. %to eat mutton birds and have a feast Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian OH, DOMJUM!, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: And your brown hands white %with the dust of stolen flour Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian OKAY, LET'S BE HONEST, by ROBERT WALKER Poem Source First Line: Okay, let's be honest: %I ain't no saint Last Line: But then again, %I sure wasn't born in heaven! Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian OLD CO'ES, by JIM EVERETT Poem Source First Line: He had been there all his life, at the corner Last Line: And this we give 'm, their rights and the big job %to keep our people goin', as leaders: as old co'e Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian ON THE ARROW TRACK, by J. H. G. Poem Text First Line: Coming from the arrow, I / with my empty dray Last Line: "ta-ra-ra boom-dee-ay!" Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Family Life; Language; Singing & Singers; Relatives; Words; Vocabulary; Songs ONCE, WHEN WALKING DOWN THE WET GREY STREETS, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: And sing loud the songs of their father's fathers %as brown hands made stories from the river's clay Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian ONE DAY, by BOBBI SYKES Poem Source First Line: Moving along main st. / %whitesville / Last Line: And I was no longer moving along / %but / my brother / %moving up! Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian PASSAGE, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: See there, that tree is a digging stick Last Line: Through the singing we keep everything alive; %through the songs ... The spirit s keep us alive Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian PAST, by OODGEROO NOONUCCAL Poem Source First Line: Let no one say the past is dead Last Line: Now is so small a part of time, so small a part %of all the race years that have moulded me Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian PEACE AND THE DESERT, by KEVIN GILBERT Poem Source First Line: As campfire embers gleam %I hear the call Last Line: Their tall flags fly defiantly and bless %their squadrons in their grim green battle-dress Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian PEMULWY -- A VISITATION, by BERYL PHILIP-CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: Poor pemulwy %we never met? Last Line: Across oceans of despair %through the magic fires of our hearts Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian PENSION DAY, by CHARMAINE PAPERTALK-GREEN Poem Source First Line: They sit under the gumtrees Last Line: Laughing, drinking and fighting %it's pension day Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian PINJARRA WARRIOR, WHERE WERE YOU THAT DAY, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: I cry for my dead son %killed by the men as white as the soft summer clouds Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian PLEASE MISTA DO'N TAKE ME CHILEN, PLEASE MISTA DO'N', by ERROL WEST Poem Source Last Line: White man's vision, koories' nightmare, %whta do you know %you're not there! Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian POWELL'S REVENGE, by F. C. URQUHART Poem Text First Line: Swiftly the messenger had sped Last Line: That here was ... Powell's revenge. Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Betrayal; Murder; Revenge PRAYER TO THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW YEAR, by BOBBI SYKES Poem Source First Line: Dear spirit, %here we are--at the end of a long year of struggle Last Line: For legend tells us, dear spirit, %the in the beginning... Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian PRELUDE, by LAURY WELLS Poem Source First Line: The track is my companion Last Line: And I'll remain a pilgrim %until the day I die Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian RACHEL, by BOBBI SYKES Poem Source First Line: Named from the bible %that good and holy book Last Line: Need to take a closer look... %suffer the little children... Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RACHEL, by JOY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I think of all the treasures of the earth Last Line: Loving you was the easiest emotion I felt, %hating you because you were a child came as easy Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian RAIN, by VALERIE PATTERSON NAPANANGKA Poem Source First Line: It's raining, %what does it rain for? For everything Last Line: Oh', it's so good when it rains Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Rain RAIN COMES OVER THE HILLS, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: I stand in my brother's tears %happy as the running stream Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian RED, by W. LES RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Red is the colour of %of my blood; %of the earth Last Line: For all things are a part of me, %and I am a part of them Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian REDFERN AT NIGHT, by STEPHEN CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: 7 pm in redfern, apprehension showing Last Line: Streets empty once more, uneasy silence, %not even blacks venture out Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian REINCARNATION, by MUDROOROO NAROGIN Poem Source First Line: You rise like the phoenix %from the ashes of your drunkenness Last Line: Of our souls gone astray in the loneliness %of maybe next year or the one thereafter Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Reincarnation REMEMBER?, by EVA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Born by river %gently rested on a lily pad Last Line: Women telling stories, new stories, new names %new language... Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian REQUIEM, by BOBBI SYKES Poem Source First Line: Neatly pressed / dressed / crowds / Last Line: But proud warriors / %whose time has almost come Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian REST OUR SPIRITUAL DEAD, by JIM EVERETT Poem Source First Line: Red, black and yellow are the %colours of our band Last Line: And red is for our people's blood so onward we survive Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian RIGHT TO BE, by EVA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Don't sterotype an image of what you want me to be Last Line: I'm a woman and I'm black and I need to be free %being upfront and powerful is the only way to be Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian RIVER BIDGEE, by IRIS CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: No one knows how long he's been there Last Line: Old river bidgee need never be %another lost legend of the warrajarree Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SAME OLD PROBLEM, by KEVIN GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Remember the hate %the mortality rate Last Line: Another on dead take his name off the list %these days they just kark it like flies.' Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SEASON'S FINISHED, by HYLLUS MARIS Poem Source First Line: Outside the rain is falling down; Last Line: The night comes down. %he blows out the candle and goes to bed Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SHADOW OF LIFE, by VICKI DAVEY Poem Source First Line: I meet you, but once %like a stranger, I question your coming Last Line: Like the helpless cry of sheep awaiting slaughter. %we, too,must accept your coming Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SHADOWS, by JOY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: They pass by in trains Last Line: They live... %they die... %they don't give a damn! Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SITTING, WONDERING, DO I HAVE A PLACE HERE?, by ERROL WEST Poem Source Last Line: Beauty I ache for her embrace Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SLUM DWELLING, by JACK DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Big brown eyes, little dark australian boy Last Line: Like the half-dead eyes of a dying race... %a sad but strange, compelling place Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, by ROBERT WALKER Poem Source First Line: Have you ever been ordered to strip Last Line: For it's a strange thing indeed -- %this rehabilitation system! Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SOMETIMES I LOOK AT THE NEEDLE, by JOY WILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: Perhaps we could say how much we are hurting %we don't have much choice, do we, my love? Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SONG CIRCLE OF JACKY, by MUDROOROO NAROGIN Poem Source First Line: Jacky him been sit listening ot the wind Last Line: Jacky him been walk listening to the wind Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SONG IN THE SYMBOL, by GRANDFATHER KOORI Poem Source First Line: Look look! %look at the back Last Line: Keep coming keep hopping up keep coming %there's work for you to do!!!' Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SORCERER', by LAURY WELLS Poem Source First Line: He broods of pleasant days gone by Last Line: Feeling a weariness through his bones %in his cherished native land Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SORRY, by JULIE WATSON NUNGARRAYI Poem Source First Line: I crawled in. %it was low and dark Last Line: All that is left of a people now %tiny painted animals. %sorry! Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SOUL MUSIC, by STEPHEN CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: Dancing to vibrations of unheard melodies Last Line: How it feels to hear the music %real music %the music of your soul!' Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SPILT BLOOD AND TEARS LIKE RIVERS FLOW, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: Of the people gorged on cattle meat %that triumphant hunters had brought back home Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SPIRITUAL LAND, by ELIZABETH BROWN (AUSTRALIAN) Poem Source First Line: A distant rock, a far off land Last Line: Peace, strength, remakes a home %a land once more %free to roam Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SPIRITUAL SONG OF THE ABORIGINE, by HYLLUS MARIS Poem Source First Line: I am a child of the dreamtime people Last Line: No other man of a different hue %I am this land %and this land is me %I am australia Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian STATE OF THE UNION: 17. ONE COUNTRY, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They draw waters upcountry from the rivers Last Line: To turn waste regions into garden cities Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; State Rights STEPPING OUT, by MAUREEN WATSON Poem Source First Line: I'm stepping out, don't mess about Last Line: No ifs or buts. %I don't walk, I strut, %'cause now, I'm liberated Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian STREETS, by MUDROOROO NAROGIN Poem Source First Line: In the swirling waters, %a brown face appears Last Line: Which will make me %a wave swelling along %with a sudden %quiescent ocean Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian SUNSHINE PRISONER '470', by STEPHEN CLAYTON Poem Source First Line: Through bars he looks, longing for freedom Last Line: Mummy, is this daddy's land rights, is it too much to pay?' Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian TAIPAN, by KEVIN GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Have you heard how the taipan %crouches and waits Last Line: With his sibilant breath %and a flick of his tongue %for the test Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian TALI KARNG: TWILIGHT SNAKE, by W. LES RUSSELL Poem Source Last Line: Hunts near the waters of the lake Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian TALKING AUTHOR, by COLIN JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Sounds, rough gruffness where woman enter slightly tittery Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian THE COROBBOREE (MIDNIGHT), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the forest-depths the tribe Last Line: The silent stars above the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Australia; Death; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Bedtime THE GRAVE OF A NIGGER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'yes, it's true that's the grave of a nigger" Last Line: Where foam-waters gurgled their way.' Subject(s): "aborigines, Australian;death;family Life;heroism;horse Racing;" "dead, The;relatives;heroes;heroines; THE LAST ABORIGINAL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see him sit, wild-eyed alone Last Line: Then sinks back on his unknown bier. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Australia; Death; Fear; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime THE RING OF DEATH, by C. G. A. COLLES Poem Text First Line: Where the bourke comes down to the level plains and junctions with the wills Last Line: When the ancient coorabulkas fought their last great fight of all. Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Animals; Curses; Death; Drought; Magic; Snakes; Water; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THERE IS NO ONE TO TEACH ME THE SONGS THAT BRING THE MOON, by ERROL WEST Poem Source Last Line: Moon bird, the fish or any other thing that makes me %what I am Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian THESE COLOURED LIGHTS, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: That give whieman shaky joy. %yet I am the king of the coloured-light people Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian THEY GIVE JACKY RIGHTS, by MUDROOROO NAROGIN Poem Source First Line: They give jacky rights %liek the tiger snake gives rights to its prey Last Line: What can jacky do, but struggle on and on: %the spirits of his dreaming keep him strong! Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian THOUSAND YEARS AGO I LOVED YOU, by JOY WILLIAMS Poem Source Last Line: A thousand years ago I loved you, %a thousand more, I'll still be with you Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian TIME IS RUNNING OUT, by OODGEROO NOONUCCAL Poem Source First Line: The miner rapes %the heart of earth Last Line: Make the violent miner feel %your violent %love of land Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian TO LOOK YET NOT FIND, by DEBBY BARBEN Poem Source First Line: To look yet not find %I feel a heavy weight Last Line: One day there's going to be a clue %and each other we shall see Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian TO THE MOORE RIVER SETTLEMENT WE NOW GO, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: Dressed in rags we go, and with whiteman blankets %as grey as my soul inside Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian TORN APART, by PAM TJANARA-WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Is this what you've done to us %took us away Last Line: Rocking me to sleep %at night %when darkness %sometimes left me frightened Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian TRACKS AND THE TRACES, by ERNIE DINGO Poem Source Last Line: Are all that's behind, %yet I still see the people %in the back of my mind Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian TREE, by KEVIN GILBERT Poem Source First Line: I am the tree %the lean hard hungry land Last Line: And every sacred part aware %alive in true affinity Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian TURNABOUTS, by DYAN NEWSON Poem Source First Line: There is a group of black about, %who are not black at heart Last Line: We should all be proud of what we are, %and keep the black within Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian TWO MOTHERS, by RHONDA SAMUEL NAPURRURLA Poem Source First Line: The two mothers both sit down near the fire at evening Last Line: You listen to the radio so aloud, you will go deaf. 'that's %what I said to my daughter nangala.' Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Mothers TWO WOMEN SIT IN THE SHADE AWAY FROM THE HOT SUN, by PANSY ROSE NAPALJARRI Poem Source First Line: Two women sit in the shade away from the hot sun. As they Last Line: I am going home. I will see you tomorrow.' %nampijnpa goes to her own camp Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian UNHAPPY RACE, by OODGEROO NOONUCCAL Poem Source First Line: White fellow, you ae the unhappy race Last Line: We want the old freedom and joy that all things have but you, %poor white man of the unhappy race Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian UNRECEIVED MESSAGES, by ROBERT WALKER Poem Source First Line: Am I dreaming? %there you are. %here I am Last Line: Oblivious to the life outside of my shell %for again but a foetus -- awaiting release Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian URANIUM, by GERRY BOSTOCK Poem Source First Line: Platinum pens and yellow cake Last Line: Do not, a proud people make Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian URBAN ABORIGINAL, by JACK DAVIS Poem Source First Line: She was born with sand in her mouth Last Line: They will remain my children for ever, %the black and the beautiful kind Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian VISION, by STEVE BARNEY Poem Source First Line: My mother came to me %in a vision Last Line: Cultural identity, %I will lay in my mother's arms Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian VOICE FROM THE BUST -- THROUGH ME, by GRAHAM BRADY Poem Source First Line: Beautiful, o so beautiful Last Line: (ho great spirit be with us and never %never leave us) Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian WANNA BE WHITE, by CHARMAINE PAPERTALK-GREEN Poem Source First Line: My man took off yesterday %with a waagin Last Line: Because we are black too %so he left with a waagin Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian WATER, by IRENE JAMES NAPURRURLA Poem Source First Line: Water running past the rocks, small rocks and big rocks Last Line: The men go home without any food and so sad, without %laughter. %poor men! Sorry! Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian WE ARE NOT, by ERNIE DINGO Poem Source Last Line: And it is hard %to be one %when %the law %is the other Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian WEEVILLY PORRIDGE, by EVA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Weevilly porridge I'm going insane Last Line: Weevils in the sago, weevils in the rice %protector he bin lunga saying - mmmm, taste nice Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian WHITE MAN PROBLEM, by JIM EVERETT Poem Source First Line: It's 1982 and 200 years gone by, %aborigines have fought yet continue to lose Last Line: That dog eat dog is white history known. %that the white man problem is not just his skin Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian WHITEMAN IS THE JUDGE, by FRANK DOOLAN Poem Source First Line: You've locked so many blacks away Last Line: And how the whiteman's the oppressor %cause the whiteman is the judge Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian WHO OWNS DARLING STREET?, by FRANK DOOLAN Poem Source First Line: Whiteman dressed in your fancy clothes Last Line: For though we're the blacks you love to ill-treat %let me ask you whiteman, who owns darling street? Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian WILLY-WILLY MAN, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: Beside the quiet billabong %underneath a quadong tree Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Human Rights WON'T YOU DAD?, by KEVIN GILBERT Poem Source First Line: If all the lovely melodies %in all the world were ever sung Last Line: You will stop them dropping the bomb on me %won't you dad?' Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian WORKER WHO, THE HUMAN WHO, THE ABO WHO, by LIONEL FOGARTY Poem Source First Line: Hardware formed relationship from just creating Last Line: The worker who, the human who, the abo who %survived Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian WURARBUTI, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source First Line: Wurarbuti, as aged as his land Last Line: Leaving the old confused and the young abused. %but like the morning's tide they will return Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian YESTERDAY OLD NUNDAH'S ELDEST DAUGHTER'S SON, by ARCHIE WELLER Poem Source Last Line: Splashed on the dancing macedonians %with iron bars as hard as their youthful eyes Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian YOU CAN'T ESCAPE YOUR LIFE RECORD, by MANILA KOORDADA Poem Source First Line: In this dream I walked Last Line: They make you face your life record after you die Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian YOU GOT YOU GOT TO BE TOLD, by ELIZABETH BROWN (AUSTRALIAN) Poem Source First Line: Driving to work, planned day ahead Last Line: People, poverty, capitalists drool %the colours of change %traffic lights rule Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian |
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