Cotter Poem

The following  is lifted from the Greening Australia Capital Region newsletter (May 18)
My thanks again to Greening Australia, the Canberra Centenary (Canberra100), Hal Judge from Australian Poetry Limited and all the volunteers on the day who planted trees and the seeds of this poem.


Cotter Poem
    At the recent Centenary of Canberra planting, local poet Josh Inman gathered words and impressions from volunteers as they worked. With this content, he composed two poems; below is one of them.

      

Cotter. May 6, 2012             
     Joshua Inman
     
     
     Building Biodiversity from blisters and blackberries
     planting trees
                            returning fertility
                to the sterility of fire
     
     a community
                       Growing  from its ashes
     sections of society rallying beneath a banner
     relating
                   regenerating
     for future generations
     
     No longer just taking but giving back
     to the Bush Capital's backyard
     the 'kebab trees'
               clay soil
                       ground cover
                                     Hard yakka
     carbon sinking
         catchment cleaning
     
     restoring the burnt biota
       healing the hurt Cotter