First Place for If Your Birthplace-Country Was A Poem Poetry Contest Sponsor: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
If Australia was a poem It would be written in galloping Iambic Full of characters leaning toward the laconic Every line a simile, every name a diminutive If Australia was a poem It would be a sun drenched beach A perpetual holiday of non-stop mate-ship, good-natured joke telling and weekend BBQ’s If Australia was a poem It’s lines would start out leafy, ending in spinnifex, head out of the big smoke to beyond the Black Stump No matter what happened in between- “She’d be right mate. If Australia was a poem It would be flowing like the landscape It would speak to you of far away, of scented , sun warmed winds and distant shades of green and grey. If Australia was a poem I’d keep it close to heart It’s familiar lines of birdsong and patriotic verse, mingling in memory this land-my home.
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