kokoda track

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Have walked the track twice as a volunteer with Rotary. My last walk Oct2006. Iam 76.


The Kokoda Track

In this time of modern living,
when we think we do it tough.
If the stubby in the fridge an’t cold,
or the wine is just to rough.
Limits on the freeway, 
have been cut to one O five.
The  shares we hold in Woollies,
have just done a massive dive.

You should consider life’s alternate,
throw a swag upon your back,
and head up north to P.N.G.
and walk the famous track.
The track our fathers fought to hold,
some fifty years before,
From a predator so vicious,
and so rotten to the core.

Fifty years ,the wheel has turned,
but the landscapes much the same.
 Those battlements and ridges,
are still there for soul to tame.
Fifty year of heartache that,
 some mothers still embrace.
Written in our history,
for their sons and heirs too trace.

Come on up and try your skills,
upon this hallowed ground.
 See if you can stand the pain,
that our weary soldiers found.
As they fought to save our country,
those fifty years before.
Just grab a guide and load him up,
 that’s the only way you’ll score.

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