Trees of all sorts and colours, straight and bent
Covering grassland, and swaying with the breeze
Solitary and in clusters growing wild and free
Providing shade for the ground in the vicinity
Ground remains cooler and moister for the roots
Growing an abundance of flowers, nuts or fruits
The trees thrive, quickly new saplings sprout out
Wild and free too, spreading more food trees about
Beetles and insects living under bark and in branches
Trees are veritable foodstores for birds and all critters
Trees provide welcome roosting and nesting places
Enabling bird & animal alliances, and nightime sleeps
Folks picnicking under the shady, cooling foliage
Children frollicking and playing games beneath
Open sky fun and clean air breathing, enjoyed by all
Koalas, nocturnal possums oblivious, resting above
Now viewed for building on this land…Oh what a prize!
Property developers seeing many $ $ with their eyes
Yes, Yes! ! …However Council approval still needed to assess
Will that be difficult being a COMMUNITY PARK no less?
No problems at all… we can Re-Zone and change
Council says we'll need lots of $ $ $ in exchange
Paperwork and dollars are completed and in place
Land clearing will be prompt, so no time to waste
Bulldozers roll in quickly and push over all trees
Possums, koalas, bird nestlings seen catapulted
Becoming airborne, crushed below ‘dozers underneath
Kids wail… picnic and play where, below tree'd beneath?
The building finishes quickly, folks buy without delay
No thought given what occupied this space in prior days
Moral Of This Poem: gather like-minded people together
Petition, complain, or whatever, act now and do altogether
To shame Councils or Governments self-serving actions
Elections are coming, soon they will realise folks reaction
Don't just sip your Latte's, become useful before your end days,
And do your bit for trees, wildlife and the environment… always!
written 8th March 2019
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem