Published Poems

As a teenager Pat was a prolific poet. I will gradually scan the poems I have and upload them here. Here are the first few. Remember it was wartime and the general feeling was very patriotic. Click on graphics to enlarge them.

Postcards from Brandenburg - 1918

Pat's father, Norman Arthur Pyne, was the purser on SS Matunga which was captured by the German raider Wolf early in WW1.
He spent the remainder of the war in Brandenburg POW camp before returning home to marry Miss Dorothy Furner.
Later they lived in Tonga where he held the position of Customs Officer and their four children were born in Ha'apai in the 1920s.
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That's Norman, front row right with the black cap on.
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The Sparkling Brook - from 1938

Family newspaper started as a child by Patricia Pyne in Sydney 1938.
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More of the Sparkling Brook will be uploaded when I have time to finish scanning.
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