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The Warrumbungle Ranges
By Robru
18 May 2008

The Warrumbungles are a part fo the mountain ranges that extend from top to bottom of Australia near the east coast. This is an attempt to describe them in poetry. It is a draft and is a 'work-in-progress' at present. Comments?



      The Warrumbungle Ranges point dark knuckles at the sky,
      'twas an ancient sheild volcano in those years gone by
      Erosion has reduced it all to rolling wooded hills
      With high spikes of solid lava to give the climbers thrills.
      Deeply shadowed gorges, mysterious and dark
      Home to native wildlife,a safe secluded park.

      The weather varies greatly all around the ranges
      Hot and dry in summer with many stormy changes
      Summer winds  from the west,hot from the open plains
      Easterlies in winter bring cold air and soaking rains
      The air is clear, there is no smog,no towns exist nearby
      The Anglo-Australian Observatory stands watching all the sky

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The Warrumbungle ranges.
Written by backstreetdreamer (11 comments posted) 16th June 2008
The most striking thing about the work so far is the lovely imagery, always my favorite part of any poem. I think this is well on the way to becoming a really nice poem, with a little twaek here and there. Keith.

Written by Robru (125 comments posted) 17th June 2008
 
Thank you Keith, I need a little help with this one. So much has been written about these ranges in prose, I thought I would be different and put it in poetry. Its not easy.

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