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
- Cezanne’s Ports poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Music poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Dockery And Son by Philip Larkin
- Towards The sky by Pushpendra Singh Baghel
- Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone by William Wordsworth
- Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries by Robert Burns
- To The Autumn Wind poem – Alfred Austin
- Юлия Друнина – Старая лента, обугленный лес
- Lines Written On Visiting The Chateaux On The Loire poem – Alfred Austin
- Олег Бундур – Зимнее утро
- Astrophel and Stella: XCII by Sir Philip Sidney
- Selecting A Reader by Ted Kooser
- The Dove of Dacca by Rudyard Kipling
- Down in the valley by Marcin Malek
- I like to let the word fly about by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
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).
