My Countryside

When I look out of my window As I sit up in my bed All the trees are changing To yellow brown and red As those leaves all start to fall And lay thick on the ground It’s a wonder where they go When the wind blows them round and round It shows that summers ending And Autumns here again And soon we’ll get the Winter months With ice and snow and rain As I look up in the sky There were martins fly around It wont be very long before They are flying homeward bound Just outside my garden fence We have the linear park Where there are some foxes At night you hear them bark One comes and sits outside my gate Waiting to be fed I go out every evening Where I give him meat and bread There are two baby hedgehogs Come underneath the gate Thy come and drink the water And eat what’s on the plate As the day comes to a close The gulls fly in from west Going down to Willen lake Where they spend a night of rest Then as the dawn is breaking Off they go again Back to where they came from In wind and snow and rain Where they go to look for food Mostly on the rubbish tips Waiting for the carts to come Where they pick up scraps and bits There are many other birds to see As you look around And when they start their whistling It is a lovely sound As I live in the countryside Through trouble strain and strife I hope I always stay As I’ve lived here all my life By Jim Clarke Woolstone

 

Poems copyright Jim Clarke. Page put together by and copyright of
Yobunny, 1999. Updated August 2006