Australia

A Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey

In the field uniform of modern wars,

Darkens her hills, those endless, outstretched paws

Of Sphinx demolished or stone lion worn away.

They call her a young country, but they lie:

She is the last of lands, the emptiest,

A woman beyond her change of life, a breast

Still tender but within the womb is dry.

Without songs, architecture, history:

The emotions and superstitions of younger lands,

Her rivers of water drown among inland sands,

The river of her immense stupidity

Floods her monotonous tribes from Cairns to Perth.

In them at last the ultimate men arrive

Whose boast is not: “we live” but “we survive”,

A type who will inhabit the dying earth.

And her five cities, like five teeming sores,

Each drains her: a vast parasite robber-state

Where second hand Europeans pullulate

Timidly on the edge of alien shores.

Yet there are some like me turn gladly home

From the lush jungle of modern thought, to find

The Arabian desert of the human mind,

Hoping, if still from the deserts the prophets come,

Such savage and scarlet as no green hills dare

Springs in that waste, some spirit which escapes

The learned doubt, the chatter of cultured apes

Which is called civilization over there.

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Poems in English 

• The Ever-Patient Woman poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Sun Light poem – Ammar Hussain poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Sacred Epiphany poem – Ammar Nadeem poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Prize poem – Amanda James DIll poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Poems from Makiwane poem – Amitabh Mitra poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Landscapes poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Peace of Mind poem – Amit Shankar Saha poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Oh Mother poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Ode poem – Amr ibn Kulthum poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Nocturno poem – Ana Chig poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Nigra Sum poem – Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• My Mask poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Mujer Libanesa I poem – Amir Ibn Tawfik poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Mother Ocean poem – Amy E. Johnsen poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Milagros Retenidos poem – Ana Chig poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Midnight poem – Amy Michelle Mosier poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Love is Immortal poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Landscapes poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• Ka ‘Ba poem – Amiri Baraka poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English
• In an Effort to Translate Solitude poem – Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson poems | Poems and Poetry by Poetry In English

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