Indian Summer

OUR WORLD TUESDAY
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INDIAN SUMMER

This was the view I saw today. The weather was divine.

All through the days of summer the sun just refused to shine.

But May has been stupendous, summer weather every day,

 Though winter and its rigours are only weeks away.

This is Caves Beach, New South Wales, the choir went there to sing,

And all the world seemed happy to hear our carolling!

We used to take the children to Caves Beach, long go,

But it's years since I have been there, how long I don't know.

Back then, and it must be thirty years, it was a modest little place,

But now it's become up-market, with a very different face.

I suppose I should mourn the passing of a bit of history

But Caves Beach is still delightful, or so it seems to me.

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                                     Carmen Browne

CRABBITY

(A Poem for Children)

Crabbity, Crabbity, wave your claws.

I'm in my world, you're in yours.

You breathe water, I breathe air,

I'm up here and you're down there.

Crabbity, Crabbity, is it cool

Way down there in your little pool?

Do you sometimes swim to big dark caves

Way. way under the rolling waves?

Crabbity, Crabbity, do you wish

That you were a little silvery fish?

Or do you wish you could leave the sea

And be a little boy like me?

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PS

I spoke of the choir singing at Caves Beach in the first poem above. Well, here we are in full voice.

Jan was performing for 'Sadie, the Cleaning Lady.'

I 'did' some poems. (I was having a bit of trouble with my scarf too!)