Australia - The City Of Adelaide Poem by Paul Warren

The City of Adelaide lays stark on the Port Adelaide docks
Taken from Scotland as a link to our immigrant past flocks
Each time I pass it I wonder how families took such a voyage
From Britain for six months on the water that would seem like an age

This voyage my family made from Ireland in the 1890s for a better life
From oppression in Ireland where there was hunger and strife
To this wide sun burnt country where they stayed far from home
And became Australian and did not leave these shores to roam

So Australia opened it doors tomy people for a better life
And in the years others have come after war and other strife
Should we not do this for others who now also flee
From their own homelands where to stay would mean death to see.

© Paul Warren Poetry