Needles of Earth
By Patrick D
Published 16 May 2021
The banksia is the Earth,
all the needles are the ones who give birth,
they laugh and cheer through the wind,
and when one dies, it flies away,
a new world waiting to be toiled.
The world hangs from a piece of string,
floating lowly just to be seen,
in a national park they can be found,
with dirt paths that bring the world together.
A yellow and pink gradient of colours surrounds Earth,
it is the clouds of this planet,
held by a string it floats,
and when the wind blows,
it rips like paper,
explaining the dried-up needles.