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James Martin Devaney (31 May 1890 - 14 August 1976 / Sandhurst, Victoria)
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The Frog Pool
Week after week it shrank and shrank
as the fierce drought fiend drank and drank,
till on the bone-dry bed revealed
the mud peeled;
but now tonight is steamy-warm,
heavy with hint of thunderstorm.
And hark! hark! hoarse and harsh
the throaty croak of the frogs in the marsh:
"Wake! wake! awake! awake!
The drought break!"
but no, that chorus seems to me
more a primeval harmony.
The thunder booms, the floods flow
blended with deeper din below,
and every time the skies crash
the swamps flash!
and the whole place will be tonight
a pandemonium of delight.
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Beautiful, Pandemonium of delight. thanks.
Beautifully descriptive.
The Frog Pool
in the spring
The pollywogs swim
Hatched by the millions
From eggs laid bare
Now they join others
In the watery lair.
A fish like creature
With bulging head
A body and a flick of a tail
Growing boldly
As they swim about
Mindless of the future
And the coming rout.
Suddenly tiny legs appear
A pair up front and others a rear
Vestiges of things to come
As they swim freely
No thought of what's to come.
Then one day
As the fat tail shrinks away
They venture forth
Onto terrestrial firma
And are there to stay.
They've metamorphosed
To something new,
A creature know to others
Who come to view.
A frog
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