Best Chook Poems

flirt the butterfly with the flowers
bee in a bonnet I see a dragon fly
over the lilly pads luring the frog
as a damsel bug not in distress 
tells the reality of a pond....

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The chook house
stood empty for most
of my childhood.
An enclosed corrugated iron 
shed was surrounded 
by a wire fence
and a wooden gate 
held on by one rusty hinge.

Inside was small 
and cramped, just big enough 
to hold a seven year old
and keep out 
the rest of...

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if you had a chook inside,
it’s sure to make a mess,
If you had a chook inside,
never call it Ness,
for if you call a chook that name,
the mess would be double,
a chook called Ness is terrible,
cause it always makes trouble,
if you have a chook inside,
you ought...

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