Ode To Australia
I know some people came there
As prisoners , heads bowed low
Still others came with royal claim
Their dominance to show
Some high on pomp and circumstance
Others limped with broken wings
Still, in the last two hundred years
Australia learned to sing
There's no one does it better
Then a poet at the Star
Whose words are full of wisdom
Well loved both near and far
She sings songs of the dingo,
The brumby and the tait
Of the belah and the mailee
Of mountain trails and lakes
She sings of Aborigines
Tells the legend of green times
Speaks of yabby and the barrier reef
Paints word pictures .. all sublime
She sings the cost in blood and sweat
Of mourning women's tears
That were shed to build her nation great
In just two hundred years
She sings of the koala, the funny kangaroo
Of the leipoa, the budgereegah too
She shares her nations glories
With a passion that is true
So sing to us sweet Cherry
We'll fly upon your wings
So take us to your homeland
To hear Australia sing!
Dedicated and Inspired by
The wonderful Starlite Poet
Cherry Connett
Glossary;
Dingo...wild dog
Brumby...Wild Horse
Tait... Marsupil
Belah...Tree
Mailee...Tree
Yabby...Fish
Liepoa...bird
Budgeregah... Parakeet
By jollynoblefrog
© 2008 jollynoblefrog
(All rights reserved)
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