The Battle of an National Icon
by Norma Martiri
Towering gum trees stand majestic
Eucalyptus, nature’s domestic.
Adorable with real distinction
Staring down the barrel of extinction.
Habitats devoured by hungry machines
Apathetic world needs other means.
Frightened koalas cling to felled trees
Greedy developers do as they please.
Urban sprawl, a disease to nature
Progress ensures there’ll be no future.
The race is on to save furry friends
On us our treasured icon depends.
Copyright ©: 2011 Norma Martiri
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Immortal Part poem – A. E. Housman
- Wishes by Satish Verma
- Sonnet I
- Amity’s Death by SAAJIDA GORA
- Happy Is England! I Could Be Content poem – John Keats poems
- Ок Мельникова – Заповедь номер одиннадцать
- Man And Wife by Robert Lowell
- Whose beer is that? A Poem about Beer.
- Sonnet 07
- A Comparison by William Cowper
- My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On; Let poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ель и берёза
- Cruel Kindness by Rabindranath Tagore
- Epistle II: To A Lady (Of the Characters of Women) poem – Alexander Pope
- Fire’s Reflection by Rainer Maria Rilke
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
