Pene's Favourite Poet Poem by Francis Duggan

Pene the artist has a favourite poet
And lines of his verses she recalls and quote
Without much prompting of him she does speak
In John Shaw Neilson's poetry solace she does seek.

On Neilson's poetry her thoughts she does share
And her favourite poem of his 'You and yellow air'
His sort of verse to her senses appeal
The Aussie poet who bordered on the surreal.

Pene a fine artist in her own right
Things of beauty on her canvas she does highlight
Visual images from Neilson's verse in art form she create
To the beauty in his poems she can relate.

We all look at life in a different sort of way
And our difference make us interesting some are known to say
And with their sort of thinking one has to agree
And like Pene Neilson's poems too appeal to me.

Since Neilson died many decades ago
The poet she loves she never got to know
But visual images of his poems she does create
And on her canvas his life she celebrate.