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WIND SONG
Rustling umbrella grasses, rush with the wind
A dark western stranger, sedately strolls in
Meatants quick scurry, plague grasshoppers swarm
A Roly Poly dances, on dry clay still warm
Lightning shoots down the Beefwood, where day cricket sing
Past a creaking shearer's hut, by a gate's lonely swing
Where wind is commander, heed its vast voice be heard
As it flutters through bushland, a night flying bird
Rosey red dust, amid a fierce Whirly Whirly
A startled black rooster, wakes worried, crows early
Nervous cattle dog bark, at a homestead nearby
A grazier watches warily, the darkening sky
He's seen the clouds shadow, on the saltbush before
When the snake ladden river, rose beyond his back door
Where steamroller clouds push, and the wind hurries by
A warm southern lantern, in a volcanic sky. |
