The Sliprails and the Spur (just like a girl)
Acknowledgements to Henry Lawson 1899 for his original piece of the “The Sliprails and the Spur” It is an evocative piece with a steady cadence to suit the time.
Truck Lights
His rig was a trail of lights, turboed in the night. The length of a city block, blazing through bush byways. Over country causeways, down sweeping highways, through sleepy towns i
Put some lead in your pencil
A gender neutral story The HB pencil watched the red pencil roll by and said “Hello you are looking sharp” The red pencil grunted “I am meeting all of the derwents to put
Beacons on a Map
If you want to make a bluestone axe, Go to Undarra, Uridalla or Ulladulla, Where the flint stones fly. Sit nice and dry In a pleasant basalt cave, Near Bundoora and Bundara To d
A Faint Heart and a Fair Maiden
A Faint Heart and a Fair Maiden These words were inspired by Henry Lawson’s lament of a love that did not get a start. Due largely to social restraints, that have not changed in