ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

How Many Trees?

© Stephen Whiteside 15.07.2012

How many trees do you need for an owl
To flip and to flap on its predat’ry prowl?
How many trees do you need for a quoll
To scurry along on its leisurely stroll?
How many trees do you need for a glider
To get enough berries and insects inside ’er?
How many trees do you need for a hawk
To soar and to swoop and to hunt and to stalk?
How many trees for a shy potoroo?
I do not know just how many. Do you?

If we stopped cutting down the ones we have we would probably have enough Stephen

Another American Indian saying and yes I know it is not Australian but couldn't find an Aboriginal one that suited but I am sure the feeling is mutual regardless of race, or country

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To the home of a friend the way is never long
the welcome is always warm and the Billy always on.

Thank you for this, Maureen.

42 - good one Stephen.

Has inspired me to knock one up along the same lines but I'll leave
posting for a while - don't want to appear to be bad mannered.

No, go for it, Dennis!

Cutting down old growth forrests for woodchipping to me is rediculous , surely plantation timber is what should be used if we must make woodchips , then again it is not long before these palntations become habitat for the animals and birds you mentioned , so what is the answer , I dont know

Funny that Maureen quoted the old Native american saying , I was watching alby Mangels on the telly the other day and he was quoting that smae one as an old saying form some portugese territory somewhere in latin america. Then again Alby was a bit loose on his authenticity

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Campfires, good company and a few beverages under a night sky , it doesnt get any better than that

It will all be solved when the Greens realize their ambition to eliminate humans from the planet.

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Neville
Singleton Bush Poets.

See I just knew it , the Greens are not human

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Campfires, good company and a few beverages under a night sky , it doesnt get any better than that

Joyce Kilmer famously wrote

I think that I shall never see
a poem as lovely as a tree.......
Poems are made by fools like me
but only God can make a tree.

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Neville
Singleton Bush Poets.

I can understand this attitude, Neville, but it's going to be a lonely old place when humans have eliminated all other life forms from the planet. I guess there are a few germs that will hang around to keep us company. (Looks like I've got one at the moment...)