Nature
Adorned whole
Beauty and splendour
Reefs prosper a marine fantasy
Biology, taxonomy, morphology,
On surface timber, gold, silver and copper
But beneath, wells of crude oil world-class ore
All marine seabed mining makes one quiver
Gold served sparingly on very few silver platters
Extracted, drained and riddled with cavities
Sadness emanates, heartbreak, poverty
Blood-red betel nut lips bluff verve
Vending sings of struggle
Crime is common
Broken

Tribes
Innocent children
New generation manufactured
Wear insanity clots in their brains
Pride and hate chokes their virtue
Tall, brave, strong the powerful warriors
Weak, tiny, gentle, still vow quiet achievers
Education’s location teaches disparity
Traditions and rituals are fading colours
Ancestors cringe and weep in graves
Chanting laments, many rhythms
Echoing songs 300 tongues
Traditions decomposed
Decrees derail
Lost

Kumul
Soul mistress
The Bird of Paradise
Rainbow robs her feathers’ glow
I am an exquisite gem of all our finds
Dire need in rivers swell and jungle spells
Entrapped, even at heights when I am in flight
My suitors all spat, ignore and destroy me
Swooped daily, exotic birds once played
Habitat destruction kills my liberation
Beauty a self-inflicted on self-destruction
Extinction tolls creeps ever higher
Withered decay in a cage
Loss of oneself
Identity

Land
All things Mother
Souls lost in concrete
Reflection still absent in heaven
Strength used to come from soil toil
Traditional economy is growth, livelihoods
Power of nature’s spirit wanes with forest
Consumerism loves to taunt and confuse
Tragedy lurks in the hierarchy symbol
Capitalism devours all simplicity
Raped is blood on deforestation
Dividends for the rejected
Equalise the disparate
Destitute riches
Wealth

I am
Frontier, final
Haunting beauty
Strip not my virginity
Melanesian’s pride, magnificence
A beast corrupted my children’s play
Sensuality ebbs back by reclusive integrity
Consume honesty to rise again - abandon greed,
For only on honesty will all sides succeed
Adversity reversal is a suffering no longer
Dignity marries respect with honour
My children, unity prays for you
I am a temptress begging
We must unite
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