She lives in the house at the end of Birch Street <br />A lovely old lady so kind and so sweet <br />Known as the Possum Lady the possums on her ceiling she does feed <br />No doubt more of her kind in the World we do need. <br /> <br />Homeowners who dislike brush tail possums are not hard to find <br />To the ceiling dwelling marsupials they could never be kind <br />They claim they leave their ceilings in need of repair <br />So they trap them and then they release them elsewhere. <br /> <br />She feeds three or four sliced apples to her possums every night <br />And she has names for them she knows them by sight <br />She believes that the trapping and relocating of possums is a serious offence <br />And she will always speak out in their defence. <br /> <br />She says all wild creatures of friends are in need <br />And each morning she fills her bird feeders with seed <br />In her latter seventies her hair silvery gray <br />A friend of nocturnal creatures and creatures of the day.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-possum-lady/
