Mention Australia and what comes to mind
\nThe didgeridoo it makes me unwind
\nA termite hollowed stick with the ingenuity
\nOf Australia’s first people the aboriginie
\nThe people of the bushlands
\nWho live sustainably
\nForaging wild humans
\nWho once were truly free<\/p>\n
Kind of like the animals
\nOccupants who found
\nAs more and more of the human beings came
\nAnd wanted ground
\nThey were pushed and prodded
\nAnd made to go away
\nHabitats were lost
\nTo humans everyday<\/p>\n
Despite this still Australia
\nIs perhaps the last frontier
\nFar away from its neighbours
\nA good thing which is clear
\nFor the animals now living there
\nAre orginals and they
\nCan call themselves Australian
\nAnd are proud to so they say<\/p>\n
Of course we now see fracking
\nDestroying bush land where
\nMany original creatures lived snd died
\nAnd the despair
\nOf seeing all this damage
\nTo the natural way of life
\nEven the outback settlers
\nAre feeling the added strife<\/p>\n
Trees are being torn down
\nThey are truly laying waste
\nThe energy corporations
\nMindless goons in haste
\nTo ruin all they cannot see
\nFor what they imagine they
\nCan plunder of our whereabouts
\nAnd then just run away<\/p>\n
But we the animals we are still
\nFlourishing for we
\nLive in those wild places
\nHuman beings would really genuinely
\nPrefer to stay away from
\nWhere we were put and where
\nWe shall stay rewarded by creation
\nWith a prayer<\/p>\n
We are the Easter Grey KangAroos
\nAnd there are many kinds
\nWe like to get down on the beach
\nWhere there are lots of signs
\nOf nutritional food
\nAnd growing quickly
\nIn the vibrant sand
\nOn the Eastern Seaboard
\nIs where we make our land<\/p>\n
On to Fraser Island
\nWe Dingo’s love the life
\nAgain down on the sands we go
\nReally little strife
\nWe catch fish that just
\nRoll up in the surf whenever we
\nLove the freshness and the taste
\nFor us the place to be
\nSometimes we stay solitary
\nBut if its our wish to hunt
\nWe put a call out
\nAnd friends will come
\nAnd we then can punt
\nAround and catch some dinner
\nLife is afterall
\nReally what you make of it
\nWhich is why we call<\/p>\n
I am a loggerhead turtle
\nHeavy but in the sea
\nWeight just doesnt hamper
\nIts when I have to be
\nDragging myself through the sand
\nTo lay my clutch of eggs
\nTrying do that when you are overweight
\nAnd dont have any legs<\/p>\n
To speak of, then its difficult
\nBut of course we do
\nNeed to create new families
\nWe are mindful we are true
\nIn the ocean we eat algae
\nIt tastes good and it builds
\nUs up to face the currents
\nThe stresses we have to bear
\nIts what creation gave us
\nOf that we are aware<\/p>\n
Often in the ocean the spotted ones we see
\nThe whale sharks they are giants
\nWho swim by aimlessly
\nScooping up in their great mouths
\nPlankton by the ton
\nDiving down to massive depths
\nAnd back up to the sun<\/p>\n
Sadly we hear the Chinese
\nUtilize their fins these days
\nTo advertise their restaurants
\nSharks fins that malaise
\nThats when we see the pirates
\nSlaughter whale sharks and
\nJust slice off their precious fins
\nWhich we do not understand<\/p>\n
These massive feats of creation
\nMurdered by a few
\nIgnorant men just for their fins
\nThat is what they do
\nAnd fifty tons of body mass
\nIs then just left to die
\nTo slowly sink into the abyss
\nAnd to forever lie.<\/p>\n
Wasted by the the brain dead humans
\nWho will never understand
\nAs the plankton feeders diminish
\nIt somehow knows not to expand
\nA phenomena that risks the future
\nOf all the plankton feeders who
\nSuffer over man’s great ignorance
\nAnd arrogance in what they do<\/p>\n
You may have seen the Cassowary
\nA great big bird with legs so strong
\nDanger is my middle name
\nEndangered yes and all along
\nMy black eyeball in an amber ring
\nThe third largest bird in the world
\nI bring
\nSome Prehistoric values too
\nThe present world yea just for you<\/p>\n
I wear a crest on my forehead
\nMy neck is blue and a bit red
\nI really like those kinds of blues
\nAnd sometimes I am on a real short fuse
\nSo being endangered its best if you do
\nStay at a distance its better for you<\/p>\n
In Tasmania where we are from
\nThey call us devils we are no sitcom
\nA friendly bunch to our own maybe
\nBut everyone else would prefer not to see
\nWe are very tenacious and our jaws are strong
\nBone crushing teeth do belong
\nThe Tasmanian devil and we are black
\nAnd recently seem to be getting more flack<\/p>\n
Another friend around the place
\nWho has a peculiar little face
\nThe duck billed platypus
\nFrom warrawong when you look at him
\nHe doesnt belong
\nOn this earth really but never mind
\nHe eats half his own weight in molluscs
\nA bind<\/p>\n
For the molluscs, its true which he eats at night
\nHe’s a strange little being but is really alright<\/p>\n
Mistletoe birds rainbow lorikeets
\nThe great Kookaburra one of our elites
\nEats snakes and lizards and his tell tale cry
\nEveryone out in the bush knows why
\nThe lyre bird does mimic him
\nCharming his mate
\nSo many others too many to state<\/p>\n
The spiny echinda not the ants friend
\nClearly loves acidic food and can lend
\nA helping paw for where ever they are
\nAnts are remarkably close never far
\nThe Red Kangaroo thats me I am around
\nThe biggest of all standing off of the ground
\nAs big as a 4by 4 motor so I
\nCan run like the clappers
\nWhich is really why<\/p>\n
I am somewhat arrogant
\nAnd sleep lot
\nOut in the open
\nSo I am not hiding
\nNot me I really dont care
\nBest is just leave me alone
\nLets just share<\/p>\n
All that is natural
\nFor it all belongs
\nTo all of us not you or me
\nIts the wrongs
\nThat give us the creeps boys
\nFor actually we
\nWill never hurt anyone
\nTake that from me<\/p>\n
If you come to OZ
\nGet the train to the NORTH
\nThe famous GHAN
\nIf you can sally forth
\nTo Kakadu where the aboriginie
\nLives, its his home
\nWhere he just feels free<\/p>\n
All sorts of strange creatures
\nLive side by side
\nAll of us wild
\nIt cant be denied
\nJAcana’s the Jabiru
\nBrolgas and more
\nAnd hundreds of salties
\nThe croc’s who are sure<\/p>\n
They are kingpins
\nFound everywhere
\nIn salt or fresh water
\nJust you be aware
\nVery resilient and able to be
\nStatuelike till you get close
\nThen you see
\nHow fast we are
\nYou will not get away
\nIf on the banks you see us lay<\/p>\n
With our mouths wide open
\nWe are cooling the brain
\nWhilst heating our bodies
\nTo the croc’s sweet refrain
\nAUSTRALIA ROCKS clearly thats true
\nIf you are coming to see us
\nNow you know what to do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mention Australia and what comes to mind The didgeridoo it makes me unwind A termite hollowed stick with the ingenuity Of Australia’s first people the aboriginie The people of the bushlands Who live sustainably Foraging wild humans Who once were … Continue reading