Nature

Leslie Allan Murray was born in 1938 in a small poor village (farm) in Nabiac to the north of New South Wales Australia. The beauty of those places admired him and presented him the whole variety of colors that pushed him to write his poems in an unforgettable style. For example, several lines from his poem “Spring Hail”:
“…Fresh-minted hills
smoked, and the heavens swirled and blew away.
The paddocks were endless again, and all around
leaves lay beneath their trees, and cakes of moss…”
Murray’s poor background grafted him a sense of love of the beautiful landscapes and scenery of rural Australia. The area of those places was specifically forested and hilly, not populated and its beauty formed up the base to many of Murray’s best poems. We can name a great amount of poems depicting the nature of Australia, including “Fuel Stoppage”, “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow”, “On Home Beaches”, “Inside Ayers Rock”. Some lines of the last poem show the ordinary cafeteria, but the author brightens the reality comparing some things with the picturesque sceneries he has ever seen. For example:
“… Curving around the cafeteria
throughout vast inner space
is a Milky way of plastic chairs
in foursomes around tables
all the way to the truck drivers’ enclave…”
So, all in all Les Murray tried to depict the rare beauty of his native land everywhere, peaceful and charming, thrilling and unforgettable