Water-Borne
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Seen as a collection of spare parts
swimming in close formation
neither fish nor fowl
from a southern hemisphere nation
sewn together as if torn asunder
the amphibian antipodean
from ...
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Categories:
duck billed platypus, animal, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
The Galactic Genie
...He travels through the Universe
Hopping from galaxy to galaxy
After doing what must be done
Stopping from one star system to another
Seeking out habitability for his super consciousness
Tur...
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Categories:
duck billed platypus, creation, imagination, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Dream Talk
...At breakfast I scribble in a notebook
questions like:
why do I feel like a duck-billed platypus
has been nibbling at my brain all night?
The I remember
the billabong, the kookaburra
and the ‘jo...
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Categories:
duck billed platypus, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Duck-Billed Platypus
...A duck-billed platypus
Is bathing on the bus
She left her favorite stream
To join our swimming team
She did so well last year
Her lane was free and clear
Until the final leg
When Platy laid ...
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Categories:
duck billed platypus, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Dream Sharing
...Yes, we do share our dreams,
of course we leave out the inadmissible,
the dark alcoves and the flying monkeys.
At breakfast I scratch in a notebook,
doodle questions like
why I feel a duck-b...
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Categories:
duck billed platypus, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Like a Platypus
...on a sunny shiny day sitting outside in the garden
sipping nectar on a chair at a round outdoor table on the lawn
with my mom, someone else becomes interested in me
I'm only 3 and Fuzzy is my be...
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Categories:
duck billed platypus, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse
Suddenly Swans
...Elephant with crooked tooth
and I did not know they had them
Lion cub in drag
funny to everyone but the cabaret master
prancing around in my thought waves
taking me hostage
Duck-billed platyp...
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Categories:
duck billed platypus, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Space Suited Shells Are Cute Arent They
...A fat flat packed duck billed platypus was not on a platter. In fact it had escaped under a robe. With a robin. The robin was to be stuffed into a pigeon which was stuffed into pheasant then chicken ...
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Categories:
duck billed platypus, animal, , cute,
Form: I do not know?
Mother Nature
...Plants and animals,
birds n' bees. From
a sycamore tree to
a suckling honey Bee.
The duck-billed Platypus,
the Mongoose. From a
giant Elk to a wandering
moose. Poison Ivy ...
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Categories:
duck billed platypus, imagery, insect, life, mother,
Form: I do not know?
P D How Foxxy Is She
...What in the world is she gonna do
A trip made to the Atlanta zoo
The white silver back
Might cut her some slack
And teach her more than a thing or two
Too late she found out how amorous
Apes ...
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Categories:
duck billed platypus, funny
Form: Limerick
Duck Billed Platypus
...The duck-billed platypus is odd and, if the product of a god,
it's difficult to understand, why such an animal was planned,
but maybe when the rest was done, there was stuff left and so begun
o...
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Categories:
duck billed platypus, animal, nature,
Form: Rhyme