Cairns Poems - Poems about Cairns

...What lies beneath the nuptial necropolis? Sun-glints of memory, warm rays of kinder days, tranquil as the soil-sleepers before they broke the coffin confines and howled free. What lies beneath ......Read the rest...

...The thirst to tell stories To understand what came before And how, stumbling stupidly with bloodshot and laughing eyes we cobble together little piles of rocks which from afar tower to a some......Read the rest...

...Old Persian expedition of eight ships Eight hundred soldiers on board with whips Traveled and obliterated Aksumites of good gesture People of worship, peace and humane nature Aksum of ivory and......Read the rest...

...The Bichon Frise The Bichon in chiffon looks so frou That the crowd duly wowed has to coo ‘Til the dog starts to droop And its owner to scoop Some acutely embarrassing doo The ......Read the rest...

...I took a stroll through Boot Hill Cemetery the other day, To take a look at where outlaws and other rabble lay. Some graves were marked by stones, others by weathered board; Many covered with cair......Read the rest...

...Walls too high, above the grasses I see Walls above my eye, below the world of me Fencing my eye, lions of grey roaring Reaching the sky, birds of prey soaring. Walls of lamentation are memorie......Read the rest...

...Liberty Bell, cracked and muted after the war Apostrophe after every catastrophe under par Homerun in the Long March of Second War Coins on cairns of foes and heroes in jar An exclamation point i......Read the rest...

...I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the dingo’s call? It couldn’t be as all Round me were the sounds of London go......Read the rest...

...Some enact outstanding feats of altruism in the world, some pray, administer and comfort; both create shrines of hope. Yet there are others tasked to reveal waymarks on invisible pathways, ca......Read the rest...

...Christmas Past and Present Bring Me Tears My legs of yesterday's walked into a Christmas storybook, a glorious past, pages filled with good tidings. And as young kid, once with open eyes, w......Read the rest...

...The beach gathers its dead. Thousands of horseshoe crabs come home on the full moon’s tide. Their courting dances, scrawled with claw and carapace in the wet sand, leave with the ghost hands of n......Read the rest...

...Sugar Cane Blues By Kevin L Fairbrother Sugar, Sugar it’s everywhere From Proserpine to Cairns The green fields of cane Are in your face all the time On the road I’m driving The cane sway......Read the rest...

...On the deaths of Major John Cairns Bartholomew, of Wadworthshire, and a much loved Devizes tree... Beneath a grey and monumental sky In wild confetti clouds that dance in air The blossom falls;......Read the rest...

...Drugs like anger and toxin like pills Flashing from the side of the ditch. Holding out the rain, trying so hard to rot whatever it touches. Curses to the sun that drying *****, flooding t......Read the rest...

... She exits the shower As I towel her down Her long blond hair Skin so brown With her back to me In masterly strokes Every part I caress Her wanting stokes She takes my hands T......Read the rest...