Touring The Australian Rainforest
Nature is picture perfect
I hiked a six kilometre trail through the rainforest at Mount Glorious today and would love to share my journey with you.
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A trek through the Australian Rainforest
Is an all consuming, stress reducing, haven,
The sights and sounds calming, relaxing
Calls of the parrots, bower birds and raven.
The towering trees acting as a shady canopy
Ensuring the humidity is at its optimal,
Pretty moss coverings and colourful fungi
All aiding the perfect condition be tropical.
Tree ferns raise their fronds to the moisture
As enormous trees compete for the light,
Dappled shade amid sun drenched rocks
A python quietly sun baking, gives you a fright.
Strangler Fig Trees, overrunning their host
Shaping and texturing, a feast to our eyes,
As they strangle the girth of the original tree
Beginning at ground level, up into the skies.
Small running creeks, the tinkle of running water
Mud skippers flittering across the surface,
Tiny minnows follow and swim in their wake
If you’re lucky you may also see a tortoise.
Squelching mud along the well worn trails
Leeches, laying in wait, hoping to hitch a ride,
Fallen trees degrading to nurture the earth
It’s worth it, the beauty that will not be denied.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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Such a beautiful poem accompanied by so many beautiful pictures. Just looking at them, I could smell the fresh air!
Previously hearted. I loved this one, even the big slithery thing.