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Question: Will you accept this different format!? "Waiting for the big wet"!.!?
Five years the drought has lasted now,
two thousand sheep and as many a cow
are as bones scattered about the red dust!.
If it don’t rain soon, strewth, I’ll go flamin’
bust!.
Sunk a dozen or more bores but no water
yet!. My dams are near dry waiting for the
big wet!.Two of my youngest aint never seen
any rain, we show them pictures of big wets
again and again!.
Wer'e at the back O' beyond; six hundred
miles from the coast!. It's been seven years,
since we could honestly boast that our
spread could send a thousand cattle all
well bred, way over to Muckadilla where
runs the nearest railhead!.
My oath if it don’t rain soon I’m flamein’ givin'
it back to Him, and heading for the coast!.
Strewth He wouldn't want a spread that’s all
but done in!. A century and a half my family
have battled with this land, now what have I
to leave my kids, a useless fifty thousand
acres of blasted red sand!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
It's wonderful that you are a writer and may as well be a rancher!. That would mean you are busy both when it's wet and when it's dry!. Most people look for the sun after the rain, but the poet here is looking for the rain after the sun!. I've learned from other poets to wait to pour out sympathy!. It's possibly this is one of your methods of writing!. I enjoyed the uniqueness of thought!.EDIT!. Reconsidering your question, I bet you are not a rancher at all!. I like the format!. lol!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
The poets here love story/dialogue poems!. We have posted many, like this, in the vernacular!. Your poem graphically illustrates the farmer's/cattle owner's dilemma in times of drought!. (The longer line can easily be divided in an edit)!. Your work is always a pleasure to read!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
When next the red sands blow again
my sail will be set, and I will be gone
no more to cuss and fight this land
God created and God can have it back!
A nice read, the wording is especially interesting to pronounce!. Hopefully the big wet is soon! Maybe there is oil!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Fifty thousand acres! wow! and all dry, yet sounds like a sea
of red sand!. A very interesting read, yet tragic sad of yearly
struggle, ranchers/ farmers share, dependence on natures
moods, is there survival no matter where!.
Blessings!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi ! Bonza turn mate!
Henry L et al would be proud of ya cobber! Well done!Www@QuestionHome@Com