Benalla Poet's Corner - Michael O'Brien

After publishing an original Anzac Day poem by local man Dave Donehue, The Ensign was approached by Michael O'Brien who submitted a poem he wrote over his morning coffee on Friday.

That poem, Cloudburst, will be the first in a new Ensign regular feature called "Benalla Poets Corner".

● If you have a poem you would like to submit, email it to editor@benallaensign.com.au

Cloudburst

by Michael O'Brien

This placid lake. Look! Tis now a moving seaacross fields n’ paths does it surge there free;

but a thousand crystals upon this fertile scene ..are Her flowing tears upon this misted screen

through blurred vision witness I these wild eyesof Mother Nature as the flooding waters rise..

O, may She thru her torrential powers drenchthe wiles of man and wash away this stench

returning her lovers once more the placid lakeas the soul of humanity sets to gradually wake