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===== Poets Corner ===== | ===== Poets Corner ===== | ||
- | As Club Laureate, I hereby publish the results of the Poetry Competition. Entries were varied as you can see, but only the best have been included here; all poems are initialled (I have the Proper Names in my Safe Deposit. Wouldn' | + | As Club Laureate, I hereby publish the results of the Poetry Competition. Entries were varied as you can see, but only the best have been included here; all poems are initialled (I have the Proper Names in my Safe Deposit. Wouldn' |
- | Boronia is a smelly bush | + | |
- | I pick alone and never with push | + | Boronia is a smelly bush\\ |
- | Then to my puppy I say ilmoosh | + | I pick alone and never with push\\ |
- | And he breaks the shrub with a mighty " | + | Then to my puppy I say " |
+ | And he breaks the shrub with a mighty " | ||
+ | D.I. | ||
There is something wrong with your grammar, and obviously you are not conservation minded. | There is something wrong with your grammar, and obviously you are not conservation minded. | ||
- | I'm not a hairy Aryan Or a noble Hungarian Not even a Barbarian I'm a nonvegetarian | ||
- | centenarian. D. B. | ||
- | Your verse is terse and your rhythm worse. 4i lines foul it up too. Haven' | ||
- | Beware of Christine Austin, folks | ||
- | She has a strange idea of jokes | ||
- | Five ton boulders she pries and pokes | ||
- | And rolls them onto girls and blokes. F.R. | ||
- | Interesting in its historical value. Incidentally, | ||
- | . .: | ||
- | Never walk with a giggling gertie Never walk with anyone shertie Never walk with anyone dirty | ||
- | I wish I was young and not over 30. | ||
- | I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments. That touch of up the rhythm and has lateral thinking all through it. The cry. Also, Webster' | ||
- | nostalgia breaks last line-made me line, therefore, | ||
- | Across that river where Charon' | ||
- | Or the Garden of Eden,, or the Land of the Lotis. | ||
- | Wherever you're sent; by popular vote is | ||
- | Bushwalkers are King Pins. Jim Vatiliotis | ||
- | This entry is yery. good. -The ONLY one to include a signature. I particularly like the way you have spread Heaven, dell and Purgatory over 3 different cultures, and religions, AND woven them amongst the different millennia. Jim, please check your spelling of Lotus. | ||
+ | I'm not a hairy Aryan\\ | ||
+ | Or a noble Hungarian\\ | ||
+ | Not even a Barbarian\\ | ||
+ | I'm a nonvegetarian\\ | ||
+ | centenarian.\\ | ||
+ | D.B. | ||
- | Walking makes me healthy and thin. Out Canberra way (let mystory begin) | + | Your verse is terse and your rhythm worse. 4½ lines foul it up too. Haven' |
- | I fell and damaged my hip, shoulder and shin. A perfect place to go for a spin. | + | |
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+ | Beware of Christine Austin, folks\\ | ||
+ | She has a strange idea of jokes\\ | ||
+ | Five ton boulders she pries and pokes\\ | ||
+ | And rolls them onto girls and blokes.\\ | ||
+ | F.R. | ||
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+ | Interesting in its historical value. Incidentally, | ||
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+ | Never walk with a giggling gertie\\ | ||
+ | Never walk with anyone shertie\\ | ||
+ | Never walk with anyone dirty\\ | ||
+ | I wish I was young and not over 30.\\ | ||
+ | G.W | ||
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+ | I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments. That touch of nostalgia breaks up the rhythm and has lateral thinking all through it. The last line made me cry. Also, Webster' | ||
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+ | Across that river where Charon' | ||
+ | Or the Garden of Eden,, or the Land of the Lotis.\\ | ||
+ | Wherever you're sent; by popular vote is\\ | ||
+ | Bushwalkers are King Pins.\\ | ||
+ | Jim Vatiliotis | ||
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+ | This entry is very good. The ONLY one to include a signature. I particularly like the way you have spread Heaven, Hell and Purgatory over 3 different cultures, and religions, AND woven them amongst the different millennia. Jim, please check your spelling of Lotus. | ||
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+ | Walking makes me healthy and thin.\\ | ||
+ | Out Canberra way (let mystory begin)\\ | ||
+ | I fell and damaged my hip, shoulder and shin.\\ | ||
+ | A perfect place to go for a spin.\\ | ||
R. P. | R. P. | ||
- | Anybody who litres | + | |
- | * * * * * * | + | Anybody who lives in' |
- | On a walk, don't think of sex (If I do, I take a Bex) | + | |
- | On my system it makes checks, So other muscles I do flex. | + | |
+ | On a walk, don't think of sex\\ | ||
+ | (If I do, I take a Bex)\\ | ||
+ | On my system it makes checks,\\ | ||
+ | So other muscles I do flex.\\ | ||
+ | S.H | ||
Quite clever, but not in keeping with the tone of this magazine. SHAME. | Quite clever, but not in keeping with the tone of this magazine. SHAME. | ||
- | ,* * -X- * * | + | |
- | Eat no mush, never rush | + | |
- | And you will find that life is lush. P. B. | + | Eat no mush, never rush\\ |
+ | And you will find that life is lush.\\ | ||
+ | P. B. | ||
This is woeful. Puerile. The rules stated 4 lines. Your I.Q. must be nihil. | This is woeful. Puerile. The rules stated 4 lines. Your I.Q. must be nihil. | ||
- | * * * * * * | + | |
- | On a walk I never talk. | + | |
- | As. 7. Diff cliffs I never balk. | + | On a walk I never talk.\\ |
- | All I ever eat is pork, | + | A Diff cliffs I never balk.\\ |
- | And as for drink pop goes the cork. 0.M. | + | All I ever eat is pork,\\ |
- | What an admission: You deserve to be thrown out of the Club., Or thrOwn | + | And as for drink pop goes the cork.\\ |
- | Just past Kanangra, Aboriginals I saw. | + | 0.M. |
- | Explorers followed with their axe and saw. | + | |
- | Buihwilkers | + | What an admission! You deserve to be thrown out of the Club. Or thrown |
- | I gave a flMopoke And continued to soar. P.C. | + | |
- | A touch of genius. I like this whole idea the composition and your style. You have kept it simple and yet have taken us on a flight, down the centuries. Full mar ks: | + | |
- | Page 12 THE SYDNEY BUSH1ALKER APRIL, 1979 | + | Just past Kanangra, Aboriginals I saw.\\ |
- | The Prospec4ives? I try to wean 'em | + | Explorers followed with their axe and saw.\\ |
- | Away from cleanliness. Why, I've seen 'em | + | Bushwalkers |
- | Scrub outside their Billies when trying to clean tem. Obviously, they' | + | I gave a " |
- | A:so full marks for being topical, but terribly inaccurate. Quite a nice first attempt. You should go far. Preferably to the Himalayas. | + | P.C. |
- | * * * * -X- | + | |
- | ON TAKING TAKING COMPASS BEARINGS | + | A touch of genius. I like this whole idea the composition and your style. You have kept it simple and yet have taken us on a flight, down the centuries. Full marks! |
- | If you have a hacking cOUGH | + | |
- | Steady your compass on a bOUGH | + | The Prospectives? I try to wean 'em\\ |
- | And even though the country' | + | Away from cleanliness. Why, I've seen 'em\\ |
- | You'll all be led quite safely thrOUGH V.L | + | Scrub outside their Billies when trying to clean them.\\ |
+ | Obviously, they' | ||
+ | G.L. | ||
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+ | Also full marks for being topical, but terribly inaccurate. Quite a nice first attempt. You should go far. Preferably to the Himalayas. | ||
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+ | ON TAKING TAKING COMPASS BEARINGS\\ | ||
+ | If you have a hacking cOUGH\\ | ||
+ | Steady your compass on a bOUGH\\ | ||
+ | And even though the country' | ||
+ | You'll all be led quite safely thrOUGH\\ | ||
+ | V.L | ||
This is very good. It never ceases to amaze, the variety and quality of the S.B.W. members' | This is very good. It never ceases to amaze, the variety and quality of the S.B.W. members' | ||
- | If they couldn' | + | |
- | In the helicopter | + | |
- | After the stone copped her, | + | If they couldn' |
- | Down a cliff they should have dropped her. R. H. | + | In the helicopter\\ |
+ | After the stone copped her,\\ | ||
+ | Down a cliff they should have dropped her. \\ | ||
+ | R. H. | ||
I don't get the meaning of this one. Clever in its rhyming, though. You sound quite callous and unloved. | I don't get the meaning of this one. Clever in its rhyming, though. You sound quite callous and unloved. | ||
- | -X-- * * * * | + | |
- | TITHER SLITHER HITHER | + | |
- | THITHER J.B. | + | TITHER\\ |
- | a Perfect word | + | SLITHER\\ |
- | pictuRe | + | HITHER\\ |
- | nOt | + | THITHER\\ |
- | aT all | + | J.B. |
- | cluttEred. | + | |
- | fUll | + | A Perfect word picture |
- | markS. | + | |
- | Addendum: If you wish your poem to be printed, just send | + | Addendum: If you wish your poem to be printed, just send it in to the Club Laureate. Conform to the rules though. |
- | it in to the Club Laureate. Conform to the rules | + | |
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===== The Annual General Meeting ===== | ===== The Annual General Meeting ===== | ||
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===== "AND APART FROM THAT ..." ===== | ===== "AND APART FROM THAT ..." ===== | ||
- | Fazeley | + | Fazeley Read |
- | "And apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?" | + | |
- | the President Lincoln' | + | "And apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?", the President Lincoln' |
There was a long, wet climb up the steep road from Lagoon Pinch late Friday night and that "why am I doing this?" feeling. The next day was most enjoyable for we rose above the mist and drizzle to the varied scenery of Edwards Plains. There was evidence of wild pigs in the area and one was sighted. Jumping the swamp stream provided considerable entertainments and the campfire in the evening was one I will remember for the discussions, | There was a long, wet climb up the steep road from Lagoon Pinch late Friday night and that "why am I doing this?" feeling. The next day was most enjoyable for we rose above the mist and drizzle to the varied scenery of Edwards Plains. There was evidence of wild pigs in the area and one was sighted. Jumping the swamp stream provided considerable entertainments and the campfire in the evening was one I will remember for the discussions, | ||
- | We set off early on Sunday morning for, as Pat had told us many times, | + | |
- | it was going to be a long day. He was quite right. It was. We were approaching the Allyn River when a rock rolled behind me and broke my leg. A helicopter rescue in the early afternoon proved unsuccessful and I was carried out in a stretcher - an exhaustive business for those in the party, | + | We set off early on Sunday morning for, as Pat had told us many times, it was going to be a long day. He was quite right. It was. We were approaching the Allyn River when a rock rolled behind me and broke my leg. A helicopter rescue in the early afternoon proved unsuccessful and I was carried out in a stretcher - an exhaustive business for those in the party, who eventually arrived back in Sydney at 7 a m. Monday, after what could only be described as "A Long Day's Journey into Night." |
- | who eventually arrived back in Sydney at 7 a m. Monday, after what could | + | |
- | only be described as "A Long Day's Journey into Night." | + | The following ten days I spent in Maitland Hospital. I was pleased to receive flowers and mail from Sydney, and also visitors - a long journey, particularly when the entertainment on arrival was not remarkable. My efforts to be transferred to a Sydney Hospital were met with frustration until I ' |
- | The following ten days I spent in Maitland Hospital. I was pleased | + | |
- | to receive flowers and mail from Sydney, and also visitors - a long journey, particularly when the entertainment on arrival was not remarkable. My efforts to be transferred to a Sydney Hospital were T-t -7.7..th | + | However, I was transferred, |
- | However, I was transferred, | + | |
- | I did not have time to knit coat hanger covers for charity as did my neighbour, for I had many visitors and the days went quickly. I'm sure I was the only one in the hospital who had bananas, plums, apples, | + | |
- | in every drawer of the locker. First steps on crutches were not easy and I | + | |
- | do believe they should be approached in similar manner to the Ten Commandments - no more than six to be attempted at a time. | + | |
If I were to thank people for their assistance from the time of the accident, onward, I would not know where to begin and end. It is comforting to know that help is at hand when you need it. | If I were to thank people for their assistance from the time of the accident, onward, I would not know where to begin and end. It is comforting to know that help is at hand when you need it. | ||
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