Droving Poems - Poems about Droving

...I’d been droving for some months now in the harsh drought ridden outback. Through the stations of East South Australia and along Strzlecki’s track. By the time I reached a town (which had th......Read the rest...

...Two weeks we'd been droving; and the end was now in sight In the distance was Dodge City, we'd be there before night I was on the trail with other cowboys from the Double Circle Ranch And we w......Read the rest...

...There are no laws designed by man that mean a thing out where, the drying sun on pastel lands can’t lead all to despair, where frightened eyes can see for miles across the saltbush plain, where de......Read the rest...

...'Whiskers'! That's who we called him and he passed through once a year with his swag and billy; this time with a 'heeler' dog close near. Our 'oldies' always said when 'Whiskers' camped beside the ......Read the rest...

...Wally Brummell, fed em on Crow, ... johnsondon2•261 videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0BmZZhbO-U 444 views Uploaded on Oct 3, 2008 Wally some call him Zip (fed em black duck)......Read the rest...

...Thelma Leeson....... is in a nursing home, dementia will take her, and I will recite this at her funeral. Thelma Jane was a Leeson and she was premmie born Size of a sauce bottle to a te......Read the rest...

...Oh Mick McGrath, man of daring do What will the family make of you? A forgotten ghost from the past, Standing trapped in a die well cast. Oh Mick McGrath, will they hear your name? Born to peasants......Read the rest...

...Yes Andrea Been there behind the herd, in the choking bloody dust, and the cow pats are falling, with just a trace of rust, go to sleep and then i'm falling, drag by the foot i must, but w......Read the rest...

... Russell Sivey Contest Name Good Luck Meal Aussie Drover’s tucker Build your fire upwind of the billy, If you want it to more than shepherd boil, Thick slabs of Corn meat n damper, (cam......Read the rest...

...BERSHEBA BATTLE W.W.1 Horses sensed the coming battle, Heard sabres rattling to be free. Fed a nose bag of oats, and the rattle, Of bayonets on the rifles, old Brumby Off they are now, at ......Read the rest...

...Nelly my mum was 87 on June -7th -11 her Writings at ... http://www.scullywag.com/kokoda1942stoush/ My sweet little momma still lives in her house. independently. ELLEN MAY JOHNSON. (Beau Br......Read the rest...

...Who They’d say “who made you a man, young lad,” It was my hard old father, bad, He stood me up, and made me fight, He taught straight left, knock down right. And I was undefeated. To always ......Read the rest...

...Sky so blue Ah the sky was so blue, we looked an we knew, The rain was never about. We never had rain, For three years again, Perhaps there’s another drought. The ground cracks like a curse......Read the rest...

...Rodger Beadmore While a droving out near Bollon at about the forty mile, (1950s) just a following sheep through the lime bushes dense. Moving down the stock route, a feeding all the while. By an......Read the rest...

...Droving Carolyn, You could always come a droving, on the stock route we'd be roving, sleep neath the stars, an rough it on the track. Where the Dingoes howl at midnight, and the Sand Goannas fi......Read the rest...