Nancy Kaufman Poet Light Verse

The Land Down Under

Australia keeps burning but what are we learning?
 Who cares about the kangeroos when we can still
 see them at our zoos..
 Koalas are cute even with burned feet but how many
 koalas are you slated to meet..
 Fifty million animals now dead
 "it's not global warming", is still being said..
 Millions of acres the fires have now reached,
 people fleeing burnt homes to reside on the beach..
 Too many in power, too many politicians,
 choosing monetary gains over restricting carbon emissions..
 Mother earth had no choice after raping her resources,
 to retaliate in anger and show us her forces..
 I pray for rain and a little thunder and for our friends
 who reside in the "land down under".

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Nancy Kaufman August 3, 2020 at 8:20 AM thank you for your kind words

Mahtab Bangalee August 2, 2020 at 11:17 PM I pray for rain and a little thunder and for our friends who reside in the "land down under".......expressed well; I am with your praying

Rico Leffanta February 18, 2020 at 12:14 PM Trump et al trust Mother Nature to provide for their grandchildren; if Trump would read, he might understand Mother Nature is not his caretaker! Well said! Aloha! Rico Nancy Kaufman February 19, 2020 at 2:27 PM thank you..I had just watched sixty minutes and cried and cried and cried..such devastation of the innocent..makes me so sad..

Line Gauthier February 17, 2020 at 1:26 PM Wow Nancy, such a powerful wake-up call. Superbly penned. Nancy Kaufman February 17, 2020 at 5:46 PM thank you Line..I think I messed your name up before..apparently there is a Lin and then you, Line.