FIBONACCI POETRY

VIRGINIA GOW

Saturday, July 6, 2019

Horses for causes.


HORSES FOR CAUSES.                                                                         
Flee!
Wild
brumbies,
while you can.
Breathing down on you
comes the ranger man.
He’ll round you up and
sell you off to the knackeries.
You’ll be turned to glue,
curdled up for batteries.
Perhaps
some of you will be
dog meat. It is true.
Change.org has put up a site,
just for you.
They have taken your cause to the world
but Pollies won’t go
there, won’t say a word.
“Why is this so? “Whispers the wind.
“Wild horses in Kosciusko have always bin.
They
are celebrated
in poem and in song,
Now you say, they don’t belong.”
Sternly, The Ranger,
loudly
exclaimed,
“We Park people need to protect
all native flora and fauna,
we do know what’s best.
This is Crown land and
belongs to the Queen.
She pays our wages,
We
must be seen
to be doing what’s
right for the land, rivers and trees,
for the birds and the bushes and
even wild
bees.”
Spoke the Wind, in a
bluster,
“Well, give the land back to the tribes.
They will do what’s best.
They managed this land long before you entered this quest.”