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Dear EditorMy name is John Foulcher, renowned Australian poet. I engage recently been surfing the World Wide Web and by accident I come up with your site, Online Anthology of Australian Poets. The subject matter of poetry attracted me to adore around your website. I believe my poetry should be included in your collection for I have lived and breathed Australian culture for just over 50 years now, I have recorded my way of life in my verse forms, and in particular I have a specific poem to refer to you, that is of my own and two others (also of my own work) that I think argon you should seriously retrieve having in your collection.The first poem I think you should consider in adding to your list of poems is For the Fire, this poem was about the time I went in to the forest to get some lumber, and during my time there I sight some of natures creations around me, like the kookaburra and wind that swerved in and out of the trees etc.The purpose of the poem was to express my intere sts of nature and how I felt and what I experienced when I was in the woods at that time. Theres also that life and death aspect in this poem, in which the bird has the lizard in his mouth and also by the word fire. The use of alliteration, tone, mood, theme and other elements that construct a well balanced poem are in this piece of literature. In the first stanza the sentence, its a singular, human thud, this line creates a picture in the mind that theres feel of isolation and lonesomene...