Poetry pack number 13

Here are two longer narrative poems in the style of mythical Australian bush ballads.

Intimations of inebriety is mentioned as a poem written by Banjo Reilly, the local town poet in Will Christie’s “Under Mulga Wood”.

Written as an homage to Dylan Thomas’s “Under Milk Wood”, it is set in a dying country town in central NSW some time in the sixties.

I was one of a cast of seven that performed the play several times during 2004. We covered about 54 characters between us. One of mine was Banjo, and one night on tour I decided to see if I could write the poem mentioned in Banjo’s style.

Here it is, after drawing from adventures and misdemeanours from my past.

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Trident blue is an attempt to write a poem in the traditional bush poetry style. Black Caviar, the racehorse, was very much in the news at the time.

I let my mind have a bit of a wonder and a wander, and this is what I came up with.

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