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ANIMALS Bird in the classroom, Colin Thiele The bat, Theodore Roethke The donkey, G. K. Chesterton The blind men and the elephant, John Godfrey SaxeTortoise, David Speechley Circus, Margaret Stanley-Wrench The tyger, William Blake The killer, Judith Wright A POET'S LIFE: Judith Wright (1915-2000) CELEBRATIONS Christmas at the orphanage, Bill Knott Santa Claus, A.B. (Banjo) Paterson I celebrate Hanukkah, Anonymous The Great Feast, Reece (aged 10) New Year's watch, Su Shi Chinese New Year, Anonymous Corroboree, Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal The wedding, Mal Foster haiku - malay village wedding, john tiong chunghoo Halloween, Mac Hammond CITY LIFE City jungle, Pie Corbett Outer suburbs, John Manifold Social security, Terence Winch Letter from Lilliput, John Paisley In the new landscape, Bruce Dawe A POET'S LIFE: Bruce Dawe (1930-) COMPUTERS and TECHNOLOGY Abort, retry, ignore? Anonymous Cyber space, Moya Levy and Sue Flaherty Cyber me, Brian Routh COUNTRY LIFE The shearer's wife, Louis Esson Country towns, Kenneth Slessor Elegy written in a country church-yard,Thomas Gray Past carin', Henry Lawson A POET'S LIFE: Henry Lawson (1867-1922) DEATH Do not stand at my grave and weep, Mary Frye Remember, Christina Rossetti Death of a whale, John Blight For Sadako, Ross Clark Because I could not stop for Death, EmilyDickenson The death of a cat, Anthony Thompson O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman Death is a fisherman, Benjamin Franklin Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas A POET'S LIFE: Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) DISABILITY My son (for Donovan), Jim Bouder I asked the little boy who cannot see, Anonymous The afflicted, Robert W. Service The quiet music of the deaf, Maureen Emily Orr Disabled, Wilfred Owen A POET'S LIFE: Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) ENVIRONMENT Homework, Allen Ginsberg Fate's tools, Geoffrey Lungren Prayer to protect water, Claudia L'Amoreaux Prayer for the white man, Traditional Native American Indian Tewa song, Traditional Native American Indian FAITH Holy Dan, Anonymous The weaver, Anonymous Long long ago, Anonymous In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful,Qur'an - 24:35 - Al 'Nuur - the Light Pied beauty, Gerard Manley Hopkins A POET'S LIFE: Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) FANTASY and THE SUPERNATURAL La belle dame sans merci, John Keats The lady of Shalott, Alfred Lord Tennyson The dead, Susan Mitchell Amaze, Adelaide Crapsey November night, Adelaide Crapsey The spider and the ghost of the fly, Vachel Lindsay The raven, Edgar Allan Poe The pied piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning FRIENDSHIP Moving on, A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson My friend, Jeffrey Mattingley She had more friends, Joanne Burns Taking leave of a friend, Li Po My friend must be a bird, Emily Dickinson A POET'S LIFE: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) HEALTH The mother's son, Rudyard Kipling The dilemmas of AIDS, James Sykes Song of the decanter, Anonymous Common cold, Ogden Nash A POET'S LIFE: Ogden Nash (1902-1971) HUMOUR A bush Christening, A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson The young girl in the choir, Anonymous Numbers, Mary Cornish Johnny Sands, Anonymous The walrus and the carpenter, Lewis Carroll A POET'S LIFE: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS Manikurdorrk / Brolga, Jack Riala Terra nullius, Philip Rush Bora ring, Judith Wright Ballad of the totems, Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal A POET'S LIFE: Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal (1920-1993) LIFE Leisure, W.H. Davies Viewing time, E.V. Milner Slow dance, Anonymous Do not seek too much fame, Anonymous Dreams, Langston Hughes Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley If, Rudyard Kipling The world's need, Ella Wheeler Wilcox To put the world right in order, Confucius The seven deadly sins, Mathatma Gandhi LOVE Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.',Elizabeth Barrett Browning Comparisons, Christina Rossetti Remembrance, Emily Bronte Thy heart, Anonymous She walks in beauty, Lord Byron My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun,William Shakespeare A POET'S LIFE: William Shakespeare(1564-1616) MACHINES and WORK Portrait of a machine, Louis Untermeyer Sewing machine, Gwen Dunn Night journey, S.Matthewman Cleaning ladies, Kit Wright MUSIC and DANCE Narnian Suite, C. S. Lewis The bells, Edgar Allen Poe Tarantella, Hilaire Belloc At the beating of a drum, Henry Lawson Much like, John Malone NATURE Nothing gold can stay, Robert Frost Willow, Clive Sansom Sultry night, Robert Gray High water, Apisai Enos Daffodils, William Wordsworth The golden bird, Rex Ingamells A POET'S LIFE: William Wordsworth(1770-1850) PEOPLE Emporium, T.F. Kline The yawn, Paul Blackburn Ambition, Morris Bishop The people upstairs, Ogden Nash Being nobody, Karen Crawford Unknown citizen, W.H. Auden PETS Gilbert, John Malone Biscuit, Jane Kenyon The dog lovers, Spike Milligan The acrocat, Philip Rush POETRY Shallow poem, Gerda Mayer Brevity, Judith Wright Haiku, Roger McGough According to my mood, Benjamin Zephaniah PREJUDICE The emigration game - Winter 1938/39, Gerda Mayer Color-blind, Floyd Hildebrand Children's rhymes