I love a quiet place miles from the streets of human created noise <br />A sunlit place full of birdsong and beautiful butterflies <br />That flit about the wildering flowers all through the Summer day <br />I know of such a lovely spot two miles off of the highway. <br /> <br />Where the flute like song of the grey shrike thrush is carrying in the breeze <br />In temperatures not too warm or cool from twenty to twenty five degrees. <br />To lay on the lush grass out of the sun free of care and at ease <br />Alone with Mother Nature in the shadow of her trees. <br /> <br />The busy street is full of noise the cars buzz up and down <br />And though magpies and magpie larks they sing all day in the parks of the Town <br />I much prefer the quiet place where Nature reign supreme <br />A shady unpolluted spot beside a rippling stream. <br /> <br />Were I a poet with the gift of words of Nature I would write <br />Of wildering flowers blowing in the breeze blooming in the warm sunlight <br />In Nature's garden by the hill a hundred shades of green <br />And I could share with others of the beauty I had seen. <br /> <br />I love a quiet place by the hills miles from the noisy street <br />A few miles off of the highway where peace and beauty meet <br />Where grey butcherbird with the bubbling notes he pipes all through the day <br />In the place where Mother Nature lives I too would love to stay.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-quiet-place-4/
