13.12.2012 Australian Seasonal Understanding

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Wattpad Poet GailRunschke

Heat simmers and radiates off bitumen,

A slight breeze plays with the leaves,

Months slide away time altered by weaves,

Of a different song sang by men.

No spring or autumn divide

Winter is cool wet or cool dry.

Summer heat just hot wet or hot dry

The northern hemisphere seasons

Just celebrated on the calendar,

Means nothing to the inlander

The man or woman on the land,

Here a different set of rules apply.

In this great  southern land down under,

The seasonal shift is gentle

Each native plant blooms within its own weave

And as for those four seasons?

Here they just don’t apply.

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