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
- “Wonkavite…” by Roald Dahl
- Константин Бальмонт – Можно жить с закрытыми глазами
- I Can Feel The Same by Miraj Patel
- A Single Man
- CloSe To My Heart by Nishant Deherkar
- Hope Holds to Christ poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- And Doth Not a Meeting Like This by Thomas Moore
- Monody on a Lady, famed for her Caprice by Robert Burns
- A Bowl Of Roses by William Ernest Henley
- The Cooling Tower poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Blue-Eyed Ann by Tobias Smollett
- Duncan Gray by Robert Burns
- Алишер Навои – Эти губы точно розы
- Dionysus poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Ballade Of His Books poem – Andrew Lang poems
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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).
