Honeydew Miner

Stay Merri
Merry Melody.....
Stay Merry if you will.
The creek before
bereft regard
in haste,
all tainted ill.

To gibbet, garrot, gag and throttle,
congest and clog and bar,
they came at you with plastic pockets
filled and trilled with tar.

Remember Merry Melody
Remember if you might,
The miners some deserted you -
The miners some with fight.
With little swords in little hordes
of fairy wrens
and throats of yellow,
of lorikeets and maggie's lark
were sweet and wild and mellow.

Just look upon the Bellbird dear,
and think upon her life,
and though the call all
melancholy
yet oh the courage rife.
She found the domes all true love
all fruit and full and fair,
now armed with bells of honeydew
and bathed in every care.

Did you see her soar and flutter,
Did you see her plant and hatch the new?
Did you hear the bulwark call to joust
a lonely rancid flu?
They heard her darling Melody,
The Bells rang true to chime
and one and two and many then
with love that swung in time.

Remember this my Melody
Merri is the chime
Stay Merry
Darlin'
Melody,
Merry then
the
Rhyme....
xx