David J Delaney Share a Lovely poem with me this morning! Why I Live where I Live I love it here in our far north and Cairns is where I now reside where poets always find their muse and life is mostly lived outside. Our Winter’s can’t be classed as cold though sometimes drops to eight degrees and Mexicans just can’t believe what we call ‘cold’ or ‘nippy breeze’. Most mornings here in paradise are mesmerizing pinkish blues then in the evening at days end we finish with light purple hues. While, right here in my own backyard where rainforest and beaches meet, you’ll stroll the winding forest tracks within a tropical retreat. Where Blackbean and the Silky Oak, Red Cedar and the Kauri pine, Cathedral fig and Quondon trees have grown as long as ‘Old man time’. There’s golden Penda and tall Gums with ancient Elkhorn by the score, and scaly tree ferns everywhere while crystal creeks wind through the floor. Now if you watch with eagle eye you’ll spot some Bennets Kangaroos, or hear a white lipped tree frog croak and screeching sulpur Cockatoos. While higher in the canopy a Lesser Sooty Owl now darts and swoops towards a white tail rat, which senses danger and departs. And all the while there’s butterflies like Birdwing and the Swallowtail, Ulysses and Helena Brown’s (now don’t they all just seem so frail) Boyd’s dragon and the Bandicoot, the Swiftlet and the Lorikeet all these creatures share our forest, and every single one’s unique. I haven’t mentioned golden shores which stretch as far as one can see or, swimming on our untouched reef and named the life beneath the sea. There’s many more that I could name and so much more that I could share but why not view this for yourself our beauty is beyond compare. I’d like to keep this poem short but it’s a little hard to do because, there’s so much beauty here I want to share with all of you. And while I sit surrounded in my world that’s still quite primitive, I hope my poem gave a glimpse – “Why I love living where I live”. David J Delaney © https://goodreads/author/show/2936873.David_J_Delaney?from_search=true
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:03:14 +0000
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