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    Forest, Stream, and Open Spaces
    Forest, Stream, and Open Spaces
    Forest, Stream, and Open Spaces
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    Forest, Stream, and Open Spaces

    By Lindsay Laurie

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    observing and capturing scenes is something that we who love the environment believe in is simply a must so we can revisit at our leisure. some prefer photography, and some may prefer to paint the landscapes. the thirty poems in this selection is my way of providing a picture of some of my experiences throughout south-eastern australia as poetry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLindsay Laurie
    Release dateDec 5, 2012
    ISBN9781301113118
    Forest, Stream, and Open Spaces
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    Lindsay Laurie

    Born in the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne in 1946 and as a child I lived at Deer Park before my family moved to Longwarry in West Gippsland. I have one brother who was born at the Warragul Hospital in 1948. For forty-five years I lived at Longwarry, being educated at the Longwarry State School and the Drouin High School. I left school at sixteen and for thirty years worked in the dairy industry at Longwarry Milk Factory, employed by four company’s working as a butter maker, dryer operator and at times either a cream room or milk room operator. I never moved but the companies did. For four tomato seasons I worked for White Crow as an evaporator operator. Ill health with a muscle wasting disease forced me to retire eventually. My sporting interests have always been Australian Rules football, Cricket and playing Basketball. I played all my football and cricket for Longwarry, but played basketball for a number of clubs. My hobbies over the years have ranged from keeping aviary birds, especially finches, growing native fruit plants as well as attempting to grow everything I could from either seed or cuttings. I am one of the founding members of the modern and very successful Longwarry fishing club that in it’s first three years won a number of state trophies. My preference was river fishing for either blackfish or the Gippsland freshwater crayfish. I have been married twice. My first marriage failed after seven years and from that marriage I have three children, Karen, Janet and Brad. My second marriage with Joy has seen a long and happy period of thirty-two years. We have three children, Teresa, Glenn and Megan, plus nine grand children, and a tenth grand child due. I also keep in constant touch with my brother Ron, who lives in Melbourne. He is a constant source of information toward my writing. From 1993 until 2010 I lived in Irymple Victoria, and today, I am back in my home town Longwarry in Gippsland and because of my disability, I spend most of my time writing about the people in my life, and of course as you will read, fictional people who I do not wish to have in my life through this Creek family. November 1 2012 Lindsay Laurie.

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      Forest, Stream, and Open Spaces - Lindsay Laurie

      FOREST, STREAM AND OPEN SPACES

      A SELECTION OF AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE POETRY

      by

      LINDSAY LAURIE

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Lindsay Laurie on Smashwords

      Forest, Stream and Open Spaces

      © Lindsay Laurie November 2012

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Observed penned images of Australia’s West Gippsland and Mallee landscapes with the deep contrast between lush forests, parched landscape, and the differing flora and fauna.

      CONTENTS

      Sunrise

      Captured by the Creek

      Dawn Rises on the River Bend

      A Time Honoured Stretch of a River

      Bushwalker

      Birds along the Bunyip

      Bunyip Forest Revisited

      Untouched

      Bear Creek Valley

      Mount Cannibal Rainbow

      Where Red Hill Creek winds ‘round the Mountain

      One Square Mile

      Cutting down Trees

      The Course of Harold’s Creek

      Old Telegraph Road... Jindivick

      Billycan Creek

      East of the Pier --- then West

      Stalker

      We Cannot Fight Nature... and Win

      Outback Seed

      Sunrise on the Living Desert

      After the Wind Storm

      Outback Shearing Shed

      Colour of the Countryside

      Mallee Rain

      The Colour of Sunraysia

      Sunraysia Welcomes Spring

      Heatwave

      Cymbric Vale

      Carpet of Colour

      Songs of the Evening

      Sunset

      ~~~~~~

      Sunrise

      Darkness pales to shadows,

      with the ever lightening skies,

      mingling is the combination,

      of light rebirth and sunrise.

      ~~~~~~

      CAPTURED BY THE CREEK

      Like a drug of dependence, this will keep me coming back

      out along the Sardine Creek, walking on a wombat track.

      I should know every cranny and hurdle in the way,

      But secrets of the bush keep arising every day.

      I am captured by a log with its copper coloured skink,

      a family of firetail finches flying down to take a drink,

      the scent of wild boronia drifting down a mountainside,

      a wallaby amongst some wiregrass, believing it can hide.

      I am no more important than a leaf upon the ground,

      and no more influential than a feather that I found.

      I do not have the power of the Admiral butterflies,

      and feel I’m way too over sympathetic where death lies.

      I am captured by the orange fungi, hiding from the light,

      a flock of screeching mountain lories overhead in flight.

      Maidenhair cascading, mingling with the waters flow,

      and showers in the pollen where clematis creepers grow.

      I am not to be the master, just one link that’s in the chain,

      like the sand upon the creek bed, I merely am one grain.

      Yes I am one single figure that will come and go with time,

      where strength does mean survival; weakness the lethal crime.

      I am captured by the creek and the

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