Best Gumboots Poems

Evoke and pray to Gods Varun* and Indra*
And to Apollo not to go on long vacation
Play hide and seek with the earth as kids do
And bring a rainbow with its rich colors to see.

Do not bring mausim** in excess
Even Nectar consumed in excess
Or any overdose...

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The Ballad of Stinking Mick

Now Mick hung close to a Butt verbose,
And the cheese it ran like treacle,
Some said it was on the bloody nose,
That he lived, was thought unbelievable,

For he was a hairy Wombat Louse,
Hitchhiking on a vehicle,
He tried sucking up to a Mouse,
got...

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Naked to Nurture.  Naked, to Nurture.



Why not naked into woods?
We yank up gumboots.
Enshroud our piggies in wicking and itching sockbags.
Hoping to holdfast against the forfeiture of bought heat.

The city slickers in their shiny slickers
clasp and buckle, zip and bundle
before they trudge and trundle
into the...

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Gumboot heroes
splashing in the rain
two caped crusaders
bring the challenge on

wagon wheels in their pockets
a nickel buys the day
hide and seek
the adventure that we play

double dog dare ya
to be as brave
…as me

a budding buccaneer 
swathed with yellow gumboots
a princess with a tiara demands purple 
but then...

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Billy Carts and Marbles

Yes, we all played marbles when we were just kids,
Had a big ‘Tom Bowler’ and a bag full of migs.
Held onto your marble with fingers and thumb
No fudging allowed, and your eye was the plumb.
Picked out your opponent and stayed on the...

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Babies cry, sleep, change nappies, feed. Toddlers drink water from cups. Younger brothers, younger sister, older brother, older sister, small town, large country.
One lane roads, one lane bridges, unsealed, 60mph, in the dark. Bush covered gorges, rail lines across the river, small waterfalls, windows down,...

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Miss Five whimpered as she walked from the house,

        Her feet hurt and caused her to grouse.

                  She made many stops

\...

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It poured for a fortnight
The clouds floating like angels in the sky
Streams of rivulets on a downward turn
’Twas our turn to solve a mystery,me at nine
Of catching raindrops from an open sky.

With raincoat and gumboots on Sherlock Holmes 
more than ready, as now I,with his...

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How boastful the  way I rode a  sled
To flaunt my  gumboots as drag pads fled,

        I walked  through cold snow
        Fell off with pants low;

Exposing  my...

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If you wander into your local school or preschool,
What are the odds of spotting even a single pair of gumboots,
And does it matter if you find none.

If you think it no,
Then fast forward to their teenage years,
Look at  how many are wearing Jackboots,
And not...

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The universal worm has got some competition now,
since ‘Sandy’ took me out to Bateson’s dam.
This don’t include the ‘whitchys’ we get in a broken bough,
nor ‘scrubbies’ on the hooks we have to cram
to hide the silver hook
that a ‘blackie’ sometimes took,
where a ‘mudeye’ just might...

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My little feet tripping walking begun
To keep up with my mothers bigger ones
And quietly years just roll alongside 
With walking running matching stride for stride
I wonder when those little feet outgrew
Laced up booties buckled shoes gumboots too

And as we both stand with my feet all...

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An expert is a strange bird, 
That is often,
Rightly taken for the fool that they are.

The true expert however,
Has not been blinded by science,
Does not carry a trumpet,
Take out full page adds,
Sit behind a desk, 
In a swanky office,
Or sleep in a penthouse.

The true expert...

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Playing once in the back yard,
Sis kicked the cat really hard,
Snowy over the back fence went,
Red gumboots did have vent,
"Sit and read," my sis said,
'c...a...t' says cat, I read,
"The cat is gone!" I did not say,
"He is never coming back again!"
That is one way to...

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Wear your odd socks with pride,
No need for them to, in your gumboots hide,
Of funny looks, I don't give a darn,
As I can spin a good yarn.

Is it better to have odd socks, 
Or no socks?
That is the question,
You should be asking about your odd...

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