Little Mary was ten
With nimble fingers
She cut the pictures
Wrote out with colorful pen
Made a drawing of a kangaroo
On the cover blue
Oh how time flew
Filling the book with different hues
It was a project for her school
Doing research from here and there
Sitting on the library chair
Suddenly doing a task seemed so cool
Reading up on Melbourne
Sifting through Perth
Ayers,the rock of the Earth
Through beautiful city of Brisbane
It covered topics all
From agriculture
to food and culture
To transports and mall
She put all her sweat in it
Worked on it for days
Doing it in the best of ways
Made progress bit by bit
She almost did a tour
from one city to another
in warm or cold weather
even when she was away by country four
Two decades went past
happily married with children
earning digit ten
when she beckoned her out of the world vast
Time to go down under
Almost like destiny had planned all along
nothing in that could go wrong
All she could do was wonder
A place to start life anew
new people ,cultures,various languages
a chance to live a good life better wages
Serene beaches ,beautiful views
Although everything was but nothing new
For she had already been here
even when she was not even near
destiny does strange things to a few!
Foreword:This poem is an ode to every person who is living away from a country where they were born.Be it for whatever reason -study,work ,marriage or whatever other reason that there could be.As I said in an earlier blog as well,the world is shrinking and people are no more confined to any territory but belong to the entire world as a whole and free to live wherever life takes them!
domestic diva 
I live in Sydney under such circumstances so I can relate to this lovely poem.
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I am glad to know that you can relate to it..Thanks for sharing your thoughts ! 🙂
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Enjoyable read. Makes me home-sick for Australia ha ha.
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Thank you Australian sojourner..hahaha..you sure must come down 🙂
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Wow. Isn’t destiny just strange? You don’t know where it takes you.. but when it does it surely has some good motive in hand. Life is full of surprises!
Lovely take on it. Good work.
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It sure is..Thank you’ That girl’!😊
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We moved to Australia from Switzerland (almost as far as it can get) a decade ago. No regrets. It’s a beautiful country and thank you for this ode 🙂
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Wow I am so happy you shared that..We too have recently moved to Australia…and I so agree with you it is a beautiful ,amazing and kind country…God bless Australia and you too xx…Also I will share that the poem is all true 🙂
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