KRACKATINNI'S
Memories of Days Gone By
Poetry and Verse from The Past
By
Rodney John O'Brien
A series of poems I have written to try and capture a part of Australian history before it is lost and gone forever. These poems have been dedicated to
"THOSE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE FROM MY PAST"
Sometimes we forget about the people who made the inroads this great land of ours and we forget those who went without to make this a great country. But most of all, we tend to forget about our own past.
KRACKATINNI PRESS
2007
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Verse Number & Title.
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10.....Numbats
18.....Silence
47.....Dreams of Plenty
53.....Desert Sands
58.....Who Owns It
100.....Lost
112.....Tears
119.....Years Gone By
121.....My Fears
123.....The Past
133.....Fear
154.....The Boxin' Troupe
156.....The Bastard From The Bush
169.....Krackatinni's Kingdom
172.....China
173.....The Death of Gerald Fly
174.....Mate Ship
175.....The Destiny of Man
185.....The Old Bullock Driver
195.....The First Time I meet Lance Brady
196.....Lance Brady! Where is he now?
214.....Billy Tea and Damper
219.....Me Old Black Billy
225.....Me Old Black Fella Friend
255.....A Dogga' of Great Renown
256.....Harold
283.....That Place Past Never-Never
309.....A Mans Best Mate
313.....Nevertire
316.....The Ghosts of Cobb & Co.
321.....A Man On The Tramp
331.....Graveyard of the Past
332.....Green Eyes in the Night
338.....Fettlin'
339.....Bones From Long Ago
340.....If I Were An Irishman
357.....Hats
363.....Our First And Only Kiss
399.....Melancholy Moments
407.....The Man from Never-Never
457.....Old Jack's Bitch
531.....One Tombstone
533....."Rabbit'o"
544.....North of Nowhere
572.....I'll Walk Those Tracks No More
579.....The Ghosts Who Walk This Track
580.....Winter on the Tramp
587.....Come Back, Come Back
615.....Black Velvet
621.....Reflections
662.....He's Slowly Disappearing
674.....A Lost Soul
723.....I'd Met Him on an Outback Track
724.....Out on the Tucker Track
725.....On The Bones of His Arse
741.....The Dingo
742.....A Summers Day in the Pilbara
745.....Fixing Fences
749.....The Days of Yesterday
750.....Birds
755.....The Tucker Track
760.....Sounds of the Outback
762.....Memories
769.....Parrots and Lorikeets
779.....In the Cold