A Pleasant Day In December Poem by Francis Duggan

A pleasant day in December of 25 degrees
And multicoloured butterflies flit around the flowering trees
And in the sunlit parkland the mudlark calls pee wee
And many in their beach wear in the city by the sea,
The warm face of Summer she wears her sunny smile
And the traffic buzzing to and fro along the beach golden mile
Summer in the coastal city a lovely time of year
And all along the city mall the buskers one can hear
So different from December in the Lands far north of here
When the still ponds are iced over and the cold winds blow severe
And the northern birds are silent on the bare park trees of the town
And on the frostbound main street few cars pass up and down
But in the Southern Hemisphere the Summer is around
And butterflies and flies and bees in numbers do abound.