World Environment Day - Ecosystem Restoration
... When encroached buildings on water beds are removed,
The water beds stretch
More water birds they fetch
Pink flamingos, pelicans, crake
And purple swamphens, fill the lake
Kal...
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Categories:
crake, analogy, environment, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Lakeland
...In towns where Basic fantasy makes a frown
Nature has turned Completely upside down.
And day tours emigrate to the Cambrian shore
Onboard, the rivers boats from Windermere
moving between hills ...
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Categories:
crake, adventure, beautiful, nature, river,
Form: Free verse
Somnambulism
...I'll look for you
in the deep, cobalt blue
of a mountain lake,
or the startled crake
of a moorhen,
flushed from its nest,
or the idle word, said in jest
over a steaming mug,
as we huddled an...
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Categories:
crake, break up, fantasy, lost
Form: Free verse
Stolen Illumination of the Star
...STOLEN ILLUMINATION OF THE STAR
This journey has not been a fanciful adventure,
we're all settlers in these dynasty of neo-colonialism
united only by what divides us. Victims, yes
victims o...
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Categories:
crake, political,
Form: Narrative
La Femme Woor - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's the Woor Woman By T Wignesan
...(La ballade de) La femme Woor – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “The Woor Woman” by T. Wignesan
Le chasseur Bhoori demandit de la colline,
Puisque le ciel à l’ouest était de rouge,
Et le ...
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Categories:
crake, adventure, death, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
The Jungle of My Heart
...The tangled vines of green tree limbs swing back and forth
as the tallest trees compete to out-shadow one another,
and yellow tigers crouch behind bushes wait for their prey to come along
and bite...
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Categories:
crake, beautiful, deep, how i
Form: Free verse
Corn Mountain
...Curlews crake against white limestone walls
Their echo shrill in the early mist
Wake those who danced the night before
As bog sighs from heat release and black water buzzes
The insects a top scoot i...
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Categories:
crake, nostalgianight, night,
Form: Kyrielle
We Are Endangered As Well!
...I researched the earth's endangered species list and this is what I found.
There's everything on the list from A to Z - rare species just abound!
I'll highlight some of the more interesting varieti...
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Categories:
crake, funny
Form: Rhyme
Animal Links For >>> Abc Animal Twist Poem
...USE THESE LINKS AFTER READING MY "ABC Animal Twist Poem "
THIS IS A REFERENCE LIST of links showing pictures of many of the unusual ANIMALS that I
used for my "ABC Animal Twist" poem
I hope you...
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Categories:
crake, animals, natureanimal, animal,
Form: List