~ 🌲 Trees… Here Today, And Tomorrow? ~ Poem by Carola Hume

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