Australia - Dusk In The Desert Poem

By Paul Warren

The sun departs and the heat deceives
The darkness falls and the colour leaves
As the sun’s in its final struggle to hold sway
With a purple, gold, red and dark blue display

The kangaroos wake and bound away free
The wedge tail eagle settles in a tree
The bright pink galahs squawk and settle down
In a dead gum tree on the billabong ground

The wild donkeys haw haw in the night
Wild camels and horses run away in fright
Dusk in the desert is nature’s beauty made
The darkness wins as the colours fade