by Nuwahri61mackay, Queensland, Australia
Jul 2012 595 Views 10 comments
kick its challenge
A thousand steps walking a crooked fence
Only a hundred thousand more to go
Escaping the clutches of the white man
An to hide like a rabbit in burrow
Across barren lands an desert sands
On your journey to be free
Will driven from memories
Of your lands an family
Guide us fence through day an night
An return us to where we must be...
Only a hundred thousand more to go
Escaping the clutches of the white man
An to hide like a rabbit in burrow
Across barren lands an desert sands
On your journey to be free
Will driven from memories
Of your lands an family
Guide us fence through day an night
An return us to where we must be...
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Posted: Jul 2012
About this poem:
They built a fence from south to north to keep the rabbits out .....when these girls were stolen from there tribes an taken down south they escaped an used the fence as there guide back to where they came from .............this is a remarkable story its called The Rabbit Proof Fence............Poems entered on these pages are copyrighted by the authors who entered them. They cannot be reproduced without the author's written consent. © Copyright 2001-2024. All rights reserved.
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Only a hundred thousand more to go
Escaping the clutches of the white man
An to hide like a rabbit in burrow
Across barren lands an desert sands
On your journey to be free
Will driven from memories
Of your lands an family
Guide us fence through day an night
An return us to where we must be...
Awesome poem.
An return us to where we must be... I Googled "The Rabbit Proof Fence" and read about this fascinating and poignant story made first into film and now your verse. Thank you for sharing their journey with us.
what history, what a story of survival, thank you for bringing this to light for us all to enjoy you have done it poetic justice!
kickit..