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
- Best Society by Philip Larkin
- My Aroma
- A Figurative Description Of The Procedure Of Divine Love by William Cowper
- Lines Written On Visiting The Chateaux On The Loire poem – Alfred Austin
- Whiteness I Remember by Sylvia Plath
- Kumarakom (after the boat tragedy) by Shreekumar Varma
- Elegy VII. Anno Aetates Undevigesimo (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Иван Киуру – Роща заалела
- Meditation With Feet
- To an Early Daffodil poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Adieu…, adieu…. by Vladimir Marku
- The Café Filtre by Paul Blackburn
- Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- The Burnt-Out Spa by Sylvia Plath
- Listening To Rwanda Genocide by Satish Verma
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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).
