Unesco Heritage Site Haiku - Great Barrier Reef, Australia Poem by john tiong chunghoo

arching over the
great barrier reef
- a rainbow

signed in rocks
the living, dead and extinct
Great Barrier Reef

a rare encounter with
a protected turtle -
we struggle to smile (that is in the water)

Great Barrier Reef
between the dead and live corals
we talk about survival

Great Barrier Reef
the world is a chain of
linked species

Great Barrier Reef
the search for the cry
of the dugong

Great Barrier Reef
the dugong's
reverberating cry