Olinda In May

The calendar Winter less than a week away From high and wooded Olinda on the last days of May The currawongs singing on the tall mountain ash trees Their familiar notes carrying in the freshening breeze Crow sized dark birds named for the sound of their song when them one does hear It is very likely that rain it is near They can be heard all year round from Summer to Spring And in wind that brings rain one often does hear them sing An hour before the lamp of day does brighten the sky The kookaburras at Olinda utter their loud laughing cry On the tall trees at Olinda in the high wooded countryside A place for it's rugged scenic beauty that is known far and wide The freshening breeze of rain blow uphill from Kallista through Olinda on an evening in late May Where the currawongs are singing in the gloaming of the day.