In Her Home By The Sea Poem by Francis Duggan

The gray shrike thrush he pipes on the black wattle tree
In the backyard of her little house by the sea
And four hundred metres from her front door
She can hear the big waves crashing on to the shore
She likes the rural coastal lifestyle one who is not well known
In her weartherboard bungalow she lives on her own
Happy in her late sixties the attractive divorcee
Though her children and her grandchildren who lives far from her she does not often see
At evening she walks with her jack russell dog at sundown
On the beach near her home a mile from the coastal town
The place is deserted not another human in sight
And the ocean is calm in the day's fading light
Quite happy in her life she could not ask for more
A home with her dog by the Pacific Shore.