ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Turon Gold

The dry brown gullied hills are as old
As the age that blazed their heart of gold.
Wild dreams are ghosts while the cold wind blows
Where the Turon River flows.

Sofala's glory days are dust
And Hill End diggers all gone bust.
Now platypus in the gravel goes
Where the Turon River flows.

Dark Casuarinas sway and sigh
Along the banks where secrets lie.
What precious treasure waits; who knows,
As the Turon River flows.

The dry brown gullied hills grow old
And the Turon River flows.

That is lovely Neville and like the river it flows nicely. A little refining perhaps for that first stanza to conform with the 8 syllable requirement of each line within the Kyrielle Sonnet but that's not a problem to fix I can see.

I really like this Neville - it is beautiful - it would make a great song

This is lovely Neville!

Thanks Catherine.

Thanks for the encouragement Maureen. Oh dear, as I struggled to make something of it, I forgot to keep on with the syllable count. Hopefully I have the stresses worked out suitably.

To be honest Maureen I have some doubt that kyrielle makes a hybrid with the sonnet, they seem to require different moods, I suspect that more consideration has to work than just structure i.e. rhyming and syllables,and I have great difficulty trying to do a sonnet, it's a bit beyond me. It's an interesting experiment like the tigon or the liger.

Love it Neville. Beautifully descriptive.
Wazza

I can picture it Neville. It reminds me of Adelong.

Heather

Thanks Heather. I've never been to Adelong.

They're all the same Neville!

Thanks Wazza.


Sofala is unique Heather.

Oh shock horror Nev a missed Silly Bell

For what it is worth it read ok and sounded ok to me Mate.


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