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 |**EDITOR**| Helen Gray, 209 Malton Road, Epping, 2121, Telephone 86-6263|
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 ===== 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't want them stolenl) The comments are done in a flippant manner so the authors and authoresses shouldn't take offence. Lastly, the prize is not being awarded, because friends dropped in and: we drank,it.
+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't want them stolen!) The comments are done in a flippant manner so the authors and authoresses shouldn't take offence. Lastly, the prize is not being awarded, because friends dropped in and we drank it.
-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 "whoosh". D.I.
+Then to my puppy I say "moosh"\\
+And he breaks the shrub with a mighty "whoosh".\\
+D.I.
 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't you any literary friends to help you?
-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, it was the only poem' - received with a name in it. Quite an honour. I gave this to a psychiatrist and he advises the writer to take lots of Valium.
-. .:
-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's doesn't have the last word in the 2nd you have not read the rules closely.
-nostalgia breaks last line-made me line, therefore,
-Across that river where Charon's boat it,
-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.
+Your verse is terse and your rhythm worse. 4½ lines foul it up too. Haven't you any literary friends to help you?
+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, it was the only poem received with a name in it. Quite an honour. I gave this to a psychiatrist and he advises the writer to take lots of Valium.
+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
+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's doesn't have the last word in the 2nd line, therefore, you have not read the rules closely.
+Across that river where Charon's boat it,\\
+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 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.
+Walking makes me healthy and thin.\\
+Out Canberra way (let mystery begin)\\
+I fell and damaged my hip, shoulder and shin.\\
+A perfect place to go for a spin.\\
+R.P.
+Anybody who lives in Canberra deserves whatever he gets.
+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
-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.
-Anybody who litres in'Canberra deserves whatever he gets.
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-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.
 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.
-* * * * * *
-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,
+And 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 to the lions for that matter.
+And as for drink- pop goes the cork.\\
-Just past Kanangra, Aboriginals I saw.
+O.M.
-Explorers followed with their axe and saw.
-Buihwilkers scurrying with feet all sore.
+What an admission! You deserve to be thrown out of the Club. Or thrown to the lions for that matter.
-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 scurrying with feet all sore.\\
-Scrub outside their Billies when trying to clean tem. Obviously, they're lower than, a snakes duodenum. G.L.
+I gave a "Mopoke" and continued to soar.\\
- 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.
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-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's rOUGH
+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're lower than, a snakes duodenum.\\
+G.L.
+Also full marks for being topical, but terribly inaccurate. Quite a nice first attempt. You should go far. Preferably to the Himalayas.
+ON TAKING TAKING COMPASS BEARINGS\\
+If you have a hacking cOUGH\\
+Steady your compass on a bOUGH\\
+And even though the country's rOUGH\\
+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' contributions. By your choice of subject, clearly you must never be lost or delayed; doubtless you would never have an accident.
-If they couldn't have popped her
-In the helicopter
-After the stone copped her,
+If they couldn't have popped her\\
-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.
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-TITHER SLITHER HITHER
-THITHER J.B.
+TITHER\\
-a Perfect word
+SLITHER\\
-pictuRe and
+HITHER\\
-nOt
+THITHER\\
-aT all
+J.B.
-cluttEred.
-fUll
+A Perfect word
-markS.
+picture
-Addendum: If you wish your poem to be printed, just send
+and
-it in to the Club Laureate. Conform to the rules
+not
- . though.
+at all
+cluttered.
+Full
+marks.
+Addendum: If you wish your poem to be printed, just send it in to the Club Laureate. Conform to the rules though.
 ===== The Annual General Meeting =====
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 Then it was just a matter of the announcements and the meeting closed at about 2228 hours.
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