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
- Владимир Корнилов – Ворон
- A Noun Sentence by Mahmoud Darwish
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite Character:
- The Bonifratrian Hospital by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Be Not a War Poet by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Across the Street from the Whitmore Home for Girls, 1949 by Rachel McKibbens
- Ouija by Sylvia Plath
- Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 4. by William Cowper
- CLAUDIAN’S OLD MAN OF VERONA by Abraham Cowley
- Monologue At 3 AM by Sylvia Plath
- A Kiss by Thomas Lux
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о конькобежце на короткие дистанции, которого заставили бежать на длинную
- The Moon’s Truth (before the war) by Reena Ribalow
- Николай Гумилев – Мадагаскар
- Иван Киуру – Человек
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).
