An August Morning In The Suburbs

Despite the coldness in the wintery showers The flowering gum she wears her bright red flowers Stormwater gurgling in the roadside drain And rainbow lories chirping in the rain Mid August two weeks from the southern calendar Spring The ways of Nature an amazing thing The Aussie magpies build their stick nest high on tree And the male bird pipes to proclaim his territory Of Nature little I can claim to know To her kingdom her Seasons come and go The pittosporum in her flowers of a pale gray A thing of beauty on a Winter's day Up and down the highway cars and trucks buzz to and fro And the chilly winds of late Winter do blow.