Sad, but WONDERFUL POEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva

Hey Dave,

Your words have brought the suffering, sadness, and horrific plight of the many (original Australians) who occupied this beautiful, vast land to the fore. Captured by the white man of(yesterday)to search for their place in a new society, which they used to know as home.

I am (like so many of us) are in awe of your brilliant poetic voice, sending out messages which make us think.

Your mate in Melbourne/Australia, Stuart

Oh this is awesome Dave, brings home the "Drovers Boy" so intensely!
Watched the Rabbit Proof fence, and that had me in tears..Thought the Movie with Hugh Jackman and Nicole wasn't bad, and Loved the Grandfather in that..also shades of the same. The white domination over the indigenous ppls, has been nothing shy of shameful, as I know from what went on over the ditch too. Our family was hit with a full on frontal assult that way, but in reverse gear coz of a supposed utu!! Story goes that a Maori Boy, was taken for the governors son, his family brutally murdered, grew up as a white boy...some years later, My GGrandfather lost his 13th Child, taken..some say for payback, never saw her again, but weve found her and her children and their childrens children..Lots of them :):)
I hate it, always have, we are all human, no matter the colour race or creed and it stinks like a dead rat, that some ppl think that white is superior..to that I say "Cobblers"
Feigned apology by our Gov here, pffft what bollocks..they still have them penned up in the Alice region, and the Territory whats left of it that is our land anyway!!
OOOH I better quit while I'm ahead. It's amazing how a write such as this, envokes such thoughts and feelings, MATE you achieved such with this.
So hows the weather up there eh...We got RAIN!!
Great write good to catch up, I reckon you would be a Johnny Williamson Fan too!
Hugzzz Ch'erie

Such sadness and remorse in this poem David. Yes much of those traditions have "gone", but there is time to rekindle what was sacred, never give up hope, always strive for the best way of life. I would love to go back to those simple days when the Earth was healthy and it took care of it's people.

Much peace, love, and light and Namaste,
Amber "V"

"Gone is the lifestyle..." when marriage was sacred, between man and woman, and women don't "bed with a white man never called a wife" - moral degeneration expands into the environment as man looses his
forefather's values. You put it so eloquently and excellently, I reread this several times for study and relish, a full poetic meal.

Cynthia