She lives with her husband and their young son and daughter in Brisbane the brown eyed one with hair of dark brown <br />Far north of her old home in South West Gippsland the young woman from Wonthaggi Town <br />She often thinks of the old coastal Country glorified in poetry and song <br />With links to the historical Dreamtime and the tribe known as the Bunurong. <br /> <br />Cape Paterson, Inverloch and Kilcunda are places she often think about <br />Where as a Schoolgirl she swam with her friends in Summer in warm weather in the deep south <br />Her first great love still in Wonthaggi some times love does not last for life <br />They parted back in the mid nineties she now is a Brisbane man's wife. <br /> <br />She won't be going back for to live in Wonthaggi though maybe for a holiday <br />Though her mum and dad they still live there she is in Queensland for to stay <br />The Brisbane Winters are much milder she likes the subtropical clime <br />For a while she felt a bit homesick but nostalgia's best healer is time. <br /> <br />A young woman from old Wonthaggi but her future is in Brisbane 'twould appear <br />She likes the subtropical climate down south the Winters more severe <br />Still she often thinks of Wonthaggi and her happy times when she lived there <br />And she recalls the song of the shrike thrush he piped such a beautiful air.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-young-woman-from-old-wonthaggi/
