Short Tasmania Poems

Cool thoughts plopped into
moving waves of uneven
motions transverse beam

( I've never been to Tasmania but a photograph of the sea water inside the cave inspired me to write a haiku. )...

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Have you heard of Thomas from Tasmania
Suffered from a severe case of egomania
The cat's meow
Described him and how
Case was, he was only a hero in his own crania


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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ABEL  TASMAN    -  DIARY  1642


Long since we left the quay,  
My glass has scanned  the astral dome.
Bright though these stars may be, 
They are not the stars of home.





5  January   2020

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NOTE  The Dutchman Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania, New Zealand, and Fiji....

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Thyacine
Tasmanian tiger
Tasmanian wolf

carnivorous marsupial
kept young in pouch
native to Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea

Thyacine is to Australia
What Sasquatch is to North America
Been sighted but not recently penned or captured

Sasquatch might be a myth
Thyacine only went extinct eighty-seven years ago
in 1936...

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Your Government was never meant to last
Your Kingdom, soon to be forgotten
Didn't you know?
How would you have been a fool?

The last days symbolism has eaten you up like Tasmania Red Devil, Plucking what he never planted...

Sooner or later, you'll be signing your death warrant before the Competent Court of Jurisdiction.

Too bad, too bad
Her leaves has finally wither---...

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Inciting "animosity" in Tasmania could become an offence under proposed new laws and attract two years' imprisonment.

Consultation: State changes to punishable offender's actions.

Anyone found guilty of inciting anger which has the propensity of turning violent may be jailed for up to two years.

It's extreme to the utmost and should be consulted out of exitance.


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