The old bush poets of Gippsland are bowing to father time <br />But they retain their genius and their marvellous gift of rhyme <br />In their rural style akubra hats a breed all of their own <br />They still write poems of their boyhood years and the bushmen they have known. <br /> <br />The old bush poets of Gippsland don't have a college degree <br />Their poems and songs abouth the land and bush creatures wild and free <br />And the bush towns and their people in song they celebrate <br />Their ways to some seem old ways where one stand by their mates. <br /> <br />The old bush poets of Gippsland each year become more rare <br />That ageless fellow father time of them is taking care <br />they are such marvellous people and life they do enjoy <br />And they tell such happy stories of happy times gone by. <br /> <br />The old bush poets of Gippsland they may look old and gray <br />But do not say about them they have known a better day <br />And though high brow poets may dismiss them as writers of doggerel <br />At reciting their humorous verses one might say they do well.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-old-bush-poets-of-gippsland/
