Stark barren red island
Rising out of sea like sand
Changing colours reflecting
The heat and sun parched land
The shadows cast by the Olgas
Beneath a rainbow sky
Land eternal revolving
Interchanging wet and dry
Like a speck of sand in time
Are the prints of all of man
Ancient land of cycads
The hot dry breezes fan
A pitiless barren country
Giving birth to evergreen
Ghost gums like sentinels
On solitary escarpments wean
Kakadu and Katherine
And the emblem kangaroo
Solitude, the Dreamtime
And the sacred Uluru
Heart of this my country
Pulsating barren land
Land of “Never Never”
This Northern Wonderland
Categories:
cycads, places,
Form: Rhyme