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Nice, Bill, but I think it needs a point-of-view - maybe the voice-over for a travelogue or a sweeping and panning video camera angle or simply a personal p-o-v. The details are great but they need more to make them a poem! So sayeth the Old Man :-) Andrew On 12 April 2017 at 07:39, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Daylesford > > Bristling block of almost city > Either end eases off to country. > Cafes, clobber, art, books, > Pottery, haircuts, furniture chic. > Two-storey bank buildings, > Rex theatre, up an arcade. > > Two glistening fountains, one > down the post office end, one near > the chainsaw shop, viewable > from a corner table at the Taj. > Wombat Hill looming over > The Convent's grey balconies. > > Mauve kissmequicks, agapanthus > and bluebells bursting from the soil, > Swiss-Italian planted pines, > elms, red oaks, copper beeches > sharing grassy gullies and ridges > with mannagums, candlebarks. > > Just a country town but not > a dormitory town; no city-linked train > since 1974. Knows the value of parades > at New Year and Chillout Festival > All generally welcome somewhere > under its Rainbow. > > bw > 12.4.17 > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ Books available through Walleah Press http://walleahpress.com.au