On The Passing Of Jo Mountwinter Poem by Francis Duggan

Jo Mountwinter was a good friend of Nature and with Nature now she forever lay
With a strong sense of a fair go for the World's forgotten people we need more like her in the World of today
A fine artist to others a great role model one environmentally and socially aware
The World was better for her living in it and the Jo Mountwinter's sad to say too rare
Quite humorous in her own way and quite sage like there was light in the windows of her soul
From life she passed on in her early eighties a terminal illness on her took it's toll
It saddened me to hear news of her passing but to the reaper's scythe we all must fall
We come to and go from life like Nature's Seasons and death is a thing that does await us all
Trees were planted in her honour in Wonthaggi one of her daughters Jessica and her grandchildren live there
A nice thing to do for one who did love Nature and one for Human rights who did do her own share
I do recall her one of natural beauty a tall woman with hair of silver gray
She did not hide the ageing signs time had brought her she did age in a very natural way
To many people she was a role model and to the have nots of the World a good friend
Like her we all are on a great life's journey a journey that one day comes to an end.



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