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Gum Tree Poems - Poems about Gum Tree


Premium Member Le Gommier De La Municipalite - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Municipal Gum Tree By T Wignesan
Le gommier de la Municipalite - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Municipal Gum Tree by T Wignesan [Automatic re-translation into English edited for effect...] Le gommier qui se trouve sur la rue de la ville, Le bitume autour de tes pieds, Il vaudrait mieux que tu sois Dans le monde des espaces fraiches entouré d’arbres feuillus ...

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Categories: gum tree, discrimination, extended metaphor, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
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broad faced koala like Jim Henson stitched muppet stinky hugs clamber wide eyed from home in gum tree scared away by Aussie flames...

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Categories: gum tree, animal, cute, fire, lost,
Form: Tanka



Solitary Gum Tree
All around looks cruel and starved, and bleached bones define a stretch of drought and death that halved life for that lone, starving wretch. Mountains have formed a background, shaped by sporadic storms and rain; a dry creek bed revives when drowned where stands forlorn upon the plain. One lone gum in friendless splendour, where from a sapling passed the years; stands without sibling...

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Categories: gum tree, art, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Gum Tree
She sits beneath the old gum tree eyes of black, teeth so sharp, claws of steel she tells them stories and they listen stories of death and destruction stories of grief and misery and so we sit under the old gum tree the animals, the demon and me...

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Categories: gum tree, animal, corruption, dark, evil,
Form: Rhyme
A Place Called the Bubble Gum Tree
have you been to the bubble gum tree< a place thats full of mystery, a place that you can let your thaughts go, a place where u can go with the flow. i went to christmas at the bubble gum tree, a place where you, first met me, hiding behind the sofa to see if you would make me a cup of...

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Categories: gum tree, fantasy,
Form: ABC




Book: Reflection on the Important Things