MOTHER NATURE DRESSED

 

Mother Nature dressed

In her splendorous gown

Brings forth the beauty

Of springs abundant pallet

Awakening the meadows

From winters slumber

Bathing them in sunlight

Drawing the flowers forth

AS THE AUGUST MOON SHINES BRIGHT

 

As the august moon shines bright

On a clear summers night

There is mischief of a kind

For those with love on their mind

As the song birds serenade

The courting couples on parade

CLOAK OF FOG

 

A thick winter cloak of fog

Settles deep into the valley

Making everywhere anonymous

Obscuring every lane and ally

And for those poor souls abroad

Found it was not a night to dally

QUILPIE

 

Quilpie, western Queensland

Is in the Channel Country

Sitting on the banks of the Bulloo River

Way up along the Diamantina

In the land of the boulder opal

DRIFTING BY THE LAKE

The sun glinted on the distant

Snowcapped mountains

As I stood by the lake

With the mist still lingering on the water

A trout broke the surface

A few yards away

And drew me back 

SEE THE COCK BIRD STRUT

 

See the cock bird strut

His dance of spring

With flaunting feathers

He will gayly sing

In hope of delivering

Cupids amourous sting

BLACK SHROUD

 

The black shroud of night

Falls across the land

Like a black velvet cloak

Dropped by an unseen hand