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Around the World----Australia

MadameLavender
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Poetry Contest

Write a poem about Australia
Let's do another series-based set of competitions, on countries of the world.  These will last one week each, with a different country each week, to write about.

Rules:

One poem per poet
Any style, length
No collabs
Must write about the country or somehow incorporate it into your poem

First up:  Australia

Have fun!

Zaynab_kamoonpury
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The gentler gender for gentlemen . (For contest)

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I'm proud of belonging to the female race,        
To hail from the fair sex        
To be a part of womanhood , earthly sisterhood          
Not only because I have far less hairy        
Smoother, softer fairer pinker skin        
than the gents and men        
But also because it is only        
Our womb that cradles the unborn human        
That's why we are the cradle of civilisation and humanity.        
And our womanly lap that ensures the survival of the human race        
Our motherly lap is said to be a child's first university.        
I don't even mind being referred to as the weaker sex        
For I connote it to refer to how we are a delicate delicacy          
Upon which our men ravish and feast upon        
Wherein also lies part of our powers ironically.        
I mean I have read of kings who gave up thrones        
Just so they can feast their enamoured eyes upon and love a woman!        
         
The chauvinistic world of men has tried to sideline us        
Yet powerful women have risen and shone in all ages nevertheless.        
Thank you God for creating the mother of all humanity, our first mother, Eve.        
Long live womanhood, be proud of your gender.        
Let's change the male dominated masculine mindset of this world        
And make it more women friendly and feminine.        
Men are referred to as gentlemen in English,        
yet that can be paradoxically harsh in reality        
For more women are gentler ironically .        
       
A woman is flower power      
That can shake the world with her delicate petals      
As her softer voice has learnt    
to pierce, melt and mould his fierce metals      
of masculine armours of physical strength      
Without employing swords or guns.      
   
A woman is divine art admired by her admirers      
A vital divine creation that creates and nurtures      
because the Creator has entrusted her with that magnificent role.      
       
         
        ( comments are fine but I don't invite them for such contest entries)
         
         
         
         
         
         
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MadameLavender
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Thanks for starting off , Zaynab !

cabcool
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Terra Australis:

Glimpses Of Thy Clear Magnificence  

I  
O Southern Land,  
So hypothetically  
Continent
,  
Art thou not grand,  
Even amidst the world’s  
Incontinence!  
And canst thou, great  
Terra Australis, fathom  
Western cries  
That salivate  
For glimpses of thy clear  
Magnificence?  
 
II  
New Holland rock,  
Where Abel Tasmann left his  
Gallant mark;  
Of equal stock,  
Explorer Matthew Flinders  
Pleased the ear:  
Australia,  
Embracing more great portions  
Of the earth
;  
Regalia,  
And pomp and pageantry  
Down Under there,  
 
III  
Where swift Namoi  
Inclandestinely to  
His Darling flows  
To reservoir  
Along northwestern coasts  
At golden sun!  
Koala bears  
Provide no swig for drunken  
Revelers;  
Flora so rare  
And megafauna only  
Here homespun  
 
IV  
Breed kangaroos,  
Marsupial lions, Gaonnas,  
And horse-sized ducks.  
And could I choose  
The vast Great Barrier Reef  
To be my home,  
Matilda’s waltz  
And swagman jumbucks in  
My tucker bag  
Are ancient faults  
To sweeten my proverbial  
Honeycomb.  
 
V  
Three-ocean land,  
Titanic isle and tiny  
Continent,  
Your full command  
Mt Disappointment struggles  
To reveal.  
But when I come  
To marvel at your Dream Time  
Elegance,  
My new shalom  
No other place on earth  
Shall e’er repeal.  
 
© Copyright 2019 April 29  
by Clyve A. Bowen♫  
 
Audio:  https://youtu.be/CwvazMc5EfE
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Kr7B1zg0U
Written by cabcool
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Zaynab_kamoonpury
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Warm thanks for acknowledgement!

cabcool
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