Laying beneath your canopy admiring your silvery leaves
Before a wash of sky, I rest with enraptured ease
Your foliage so appeasing in shades of blue and green
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Australia is at war with bloody red flames
burning our land until charcoal remains
The volunteer fireman, our hero and hope
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Awakening to coffee and celebrating dawn
Tad of heavenly bliss, a new day is born
If I happen to endure a twitchy, restless night
I crave nothing more than a soy flat white
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Eucalyptus Tree
Laying beneath your canopy admiring your silvery leaves
Before a wash of sky, I rest with enraptured ease
Your foliage so appeasing in shades of blue and green
Diffusing your balmy oils thus palliative and serene
Supplying me with oxygen, guarding my precious wealth
Reducing air's pollution - essential to human health
You shed your outer ribbons of bark in summer each year
Revealing a radiant surface so colourful, smooth and sheer
Fundamentally affording Koalas substantial, nourishing feed
Generously protecting wildlife, providing homes and seed
Native flowers oozing nectar, attract insects such as bees
Birds peck at gumnut pits and devour them easy as peas
So grounded and assured as your roots do fondly creep
Embracing Mother Earth connected, strong and deep