Today the focus was on our tiny bush town
As many gather from miles around
Whellabarraback’s night of nights
Shall outdo all others in every might.
So dust off your finery, your Sunday best
Polish and spit upon your family crest
As our districts finest dress to outdo
Anything those city slickers might do.
So as kookaburra, platypus and kangaroo
They gathered in the School of Arts
Showing oodles of sparkle
A lot of ingenuity of design
Mrs Philips resplendent in purple chiffon
Mr Jones-Thompson colourful as always
Maid of Honour Miss Charley
In her St George flag sarong
Made quite a stir as it was an
Australia Day affair.
Long into the night the party raged
There wasn’t one single blank page
To show the town could sing to every song
More so than the quaint folk of Didjabringabeeralong.
Social standings intact the challenge met
What standard will next years event set?
We congratulate the folk of Wheelabarraback
There was nothing the night did not lack.
My apologies for casting any aspersions upon Bjorn’s artwork.
Written for: http://dversepoets.com/2014/04/24/poetic-journalism-dagsvers/
Morpethroad 
ha. i think we should celebrate the arts and its cool if we get together and celebrate that…i like the thought of leaving one page blank as well to encourage others….
Thanks Brian happy you enjoyed my poem.
That’s a hoot! I think I’ve driven through Didjabringabeeralong many times on my way to somewhere else. Thanks for the laugh. I can just see Mrs Phillips in the purple chiffon. 🙂
You probably did Suzanne it’s on the way to Didjabringyadinaup. Well Mrs Philips is a quite a picture any day.
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That was fun! Hope they all had a good time. As for the drawing, not too bad for an amature LOL.
Well done Michael!
Thank you Jackie I appreciate your artistic criticism. I will work on my style.
nothing wrong with your style, lol, but what happened to the people?? Just teasing…..
Well the lady in purple was dancing so much she shows up in a number of places and completely took my focus.
Kick off the shoes and let the party begin. Nice work.
Thank you Kim, happy you can join the party.
Wonderful language and free spirit in this!
Thanks Linda, glad you enjoyed it. Have a good day.
The old School of Arts hall. My, that did bring memories of my childhood back. Physical education classes, orchid exhibitions, movie nights and, of course, fetes. As a matter of fact, our third grade class was held in the old school of arts hall because we didn’t have enough classrooms. We had trestles for desks and stools for our chairs. The “desks” had holes drilled in them to hold the inkwells. Then halfway through the year, we got real desks with lif-tup lids and we thought we were the bees’ knees 🙂 Our teacher, Mrs Herron, was one of my favourites in primary school. Thanks for the memories, Michael.
Hi Lyn, those old buildings still exist, we have them littered around the countryside where i live. We even have a Mechanics Institute just nearby as well. I remember those old inkwell desks, we had the lift top ones as I recall. Glad I could take you back Lyn.Thanks for the great comment.
Oh no! I think my invitation got lost in the mail. 😦
Not to worry RoSy there’s another one next week at Innamoocow. You’ll love it, come dressed as your favourite Australian animal. See you there.
YAY – Ok – Will do! 🙂
Great RoSy but whatever you do don’t come as an echidna.
LOL – Ok. I won’t.
there’ll be no HUGS if you do, put it that way. Then again you may prefer it that way.
Good point. And – I heart hugs.
I think I found the animal that I’m dressing as.
Fancy feathers for my wings & an extravagant head-piece. I shall look featherly fabulous!
http://birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/major-mitchells-cockatoo
Perfect RoSy, you will fit right in. You’ll set Innamoocow alight.
LOVE your place names … and indeed the whole thing.
Thank you so much, we have alot of places in Australia with funny sounding names, you’d probably enjoy an afternoon in Giveadogabone.
Reblogged this on S.O.U.L. S-P-A-C-E.
Thanks Joann I am flattered you reblogged my post.
Your welcome my friend!
ha smiles.. and you even did a drawing – very cool – and i too like the places’ names
Thank you Claudia we have a lot of places in Australia with different names, though I do take a bit of license.
lol…fun read…
Thank you Sumana happy you enjoyed my poem.
Happy ANZAC day! (bit late, it’s already ended for you).
Thank you Marina, happy you thought to say so. You have a good day too.
Very cool! I loved your poem.
Thank you so much.
I love the names you weave into your poem… And so cool to have a drawing as well (I loved your comment on mine) 😉
Thank you Bjorn, Australia does have place names you can play with, like gunnabringabunalong. Have a good weekend Bjorn, thanks for the great prompt, India enjoy writing for this one.
Loved your words, especially Didjabringabeeralong.
Anna :o]
Thank you Anna, if you read the comments I’ve thrown In a few more. Many place names in Australia lend themselves to a little bit of word play.