Where The Colors Of Nature Poem by Francis Duggan

A magpie is singing on a sunlit gum tree
Where the colors of Nature are all around me
The recently mowed paddocks looking gray to brown
Ten minutes by car from the old country town

On the twelfth day of January in a warm time of year
The songs of the magpie larks pleasant to hear
And grey shrike thrush whistles on leafy green wattle tree
Where the colors of Nature are all around me

They do make for what is a beautiful sight
White and brown butterflies seemingly dancing in the warm sunlight
Around the flowering gum trees in the gentle breeze
On a weather forecast high of thirty degrees

The best things in life it is true can be free
And Nature's own beauty we do not pay to see
Where Nature resides peace and beauty is there
Her amazing colors around me everywhere.