I First Grew To Love Nature

I first grew to love Nature in fields far away

Far north of where i am ageing today

Long before my life\'s journey brought me far south

Of the fields of the badger and waterways of the brown trout

Where i used to daydream that i would be a poet

A writer well worthy of literary note

But daydreams as is said for so few come true

And fame as a writer in life not my due

Here in the coastal lands of the Peek Wurrong

I wake every day to the magpie\'s warbling song

Where mine to many is a stranger\'s face

I feel lucky to be ageing in such a beautiful place

Of natural beauty that lives on in time

That never does fail to inspire me to rhyme.