Paul Warren Poems

What makes people laugh
Is it the absurdity of a gaff
Or a funny line said at the right time
Is it the freshness of something fine
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The Japanese heavy industry took a battering
During the Second World War whilst they were fighting
So Japanese companies like Toyota went to the army
And requested Allied POWs to work in their factories
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Sitting on a rock in the bush in the Flinders Ranges
With a billabong in front and a kookaburra singing
There are some wallabies slowly hopping as it isn't strange
And a wedge tail eagle is in a tree branch is at us staring
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It doesn't matter who you are
Make a goal to go as far
As your dream will take
Do it with each step you make
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In the Great War animals went as soldier's saviours
There were calvary mounts including the Australian whalers
With pigeons flying messages when lines were down
Flying over muddy and shell torn broken ground
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Time, if I only had time
Time to think it all through for a rhyme
Time to love those near me
Time to have what I need to see
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The road goes on
As the ribbon of life
With a beginning
And maybe an end
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After 1918 with the war won, the troops left the Western Front lines
Around Armentières they started to clean up the detritus they would find
Then on those cold nights on the old battlefields reports started to come in
Of groups of Australian soldiers walking the roads and laneways again
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The machine rips up the roadway
As it claws the ground away
Black tar mixes with the gravel
As it grinds and heats whilst it travels
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Imperfect reproductions in generations made
Living things have offspring in their grade
We all are not absolute in our copy of the original
But there seems to be infinite variations possible
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