Gobi: Extraordinary Wilderness
Canadian International School of Hong Kong, Wing Pei Lo, Poetry: Group 4
Battle of Mobei signified the end of long term battle
Between ancient China and the northern barbarians.
The discovery of the first fossil egg
Changed our knowledge of the past.
Adaptation to landscape,
Together with ranking of societies,
Made village life laborious.
Temples and monasteries,
The vanished silk road
Full of countless merchants battling against nature,
Spread goods.
Shaped the globe.
Bactrian Camels traveled miles and miles
With tradesmen who wanted goods.
Cold drought, high altitude,
Impervious creatures that are hardy
Like the largest living camel
Now critically endangered:
Desertification, an alarming expansion:
Dust storms decreasing grasslands.
Green Wall of China: stabilizing soil.
Now, we can fly over
This jewel of the past -
A memory forever lasts.
