Kiwis Poems | Examples

Upsets and Underdogs

Kiwi Cricket's Shangri La...


"Can still hear the deafening din of the Indian crowd chagrin.

Stunned shell shocked silence at mandarins' sins.

Yet somehow still so loud

Like thunder down under in the proud

Land of the long white cloud.

Daring to dream of derring do plunder.

Upsets’ unctuous umami.

Shocks’ sumptuous serendipity.

Cast asunder as against the odds.

Hallowed Gods' anguished..felled & fallowed.

Kiwis vanquished the voodoo of Indian home hoodoo.

This purple patch, so perversely plush...got a hunch.

Would make even Prince blush, proud as ribena punch.

Sporting nirvanas cavorting with crepuscular career nadirs.

Can’t pillory this Test expedition, like the Everest conquest & Hillary.

Black cap sedition…Indian perdition.

Tradition debunked by spunky funk.

Not once, not twice but thrice.

Teeming..awash with gleaming beaming white.

Emancipation...damnation & salvation.

The Indian’s cardinal sin…not being able to play spin.

No way you can naysay.. just 

Another Bill Murray Groundhog day.

As we learned..the underdog winner.. we yearned had turned.

Fat cats burned & stats spurned..into a dog's dinner."

For the Sake of the Children

We took up the challenge,
When the bar was set high,
To show the rest of the world, 
That Kiwis can fly higher,
In a world at an all time low
As Omicron hits new heights.

While others could not count to four,
We have been hitting Covid for six,
Despite the underarm tactics,
Of those who pushed news that was fake.

Now it is time to put the children into bat,
And we should be unafraid of that,
As those giving the Vaccination,
Are child friendly,
And were the first to take up the challenge.

Now thanks to them,
And all of us who followed suit,
Our children can breath easy,
As they wait in line for their turn to bat,
With those giving the jab,
Having spent enough time in the nets,
For their bat always able to find that sweet spot,
So, we can take our children to watch the Black Caps,
Beat South Africa in a cricket test from the embankment,
Instead of on TV in a hospital,
If they can lift their head off the pillow.

Sound Prints

It’s a cold and damp, early-winter night in New Zealand. People are crouching in the dark throughout the forests and farmlands of Northland, They are here this night to coincide with  the waning moon, so moonlight doesn’t disturb any hoped for visitors. Scattered, shivering, silent and hushed through the long night, they sit, quietly, and listen. The sound they’re all hoping for is a high-pitched, guttural croak of female kiwi or piercing cry of males looking for a mate. A sign that Aotearoa’s threatened, iconic kiwi has returned to patches of forests that had fallen silent. [Play the sound to hear what they heard]

Sound Prints

in silent forests
plaintive calls of male kiwis
herald a return

Kiwis Not Tired

Kiwis aren’t tired of flying
Country to country like Gooses 
Kiwis are carried to Country to Country 
Boots and shoes

Kiwi Fruit

Named after NZ's native bird,
there's an awesome fruit, it's concurred.
Sold with a spoon, never stirred
adored in salad, so I've heard,
it sounds absurd, it sounds absurd.

Fuzzy outside, brilliant green inner, 
helping to digest your dinner.
Eat it raw to make you thinner,
when you work out, makes you trimmer.
It’s a winner, it’s a winner.

Its Vitamin c keeps you well,
boosting each immunity cell.
By binding toxin’s, they expel
the illnesses we all misspell.
They way excel, they, way excel.

Kiwis are tasty raw or stewed,   
consuming one improves your mood.   
Enjoy one now, go on, be shrewd,
help to end the growing fruit feud               
it’s a superfood, superfood.

Fill Up That Plate

chili, pasta, steak,
		fresh fruit salad, lemon cake,
		gravy, gumbo, roast,     
		bacon, jelly, melba toast,
		spicy pizza, stews,
		juicy kiwis, taffy chews,
		shish kabob, rolls, greens,
		melon, pesto, pinto beans,
		apple pie, mango,
		guava, green mints, Oreos—
		Heads bowed . . . Grace . . .  Ready . . . Feast!


Date: December 19, 2017

Contest Title:Fem Bogstaver (Danish)

Sponsor: Rhoda Tripp

Mac User Or Pc

9/8/16


Are you a Mac user or PC?

Do you prefer Justin's or Reese's?

A few times, I saw the movie "E.T."
And I once slept in a teepee

Shouldn't be sleazy
Or greedy

Got to get after it daily, weekly
Monthly and yearly, routinely

You can wish for a lamborghini
But you got to work smart and hard for it, instead of hoping to find a genie

I wore a lot of hoodies and beanies
And scaled many hills and mountains freely

Didn't always eat my wheaties
Just some smoke, alcohol and food that was greasy

Naively
Spent most of the cheese I made rather briefly

Realize, you can't expect any freebie
Or it all to be easy
That's just foolish, whether or not you ever believe me

Don't make an fool of yourself and assume
Anything underneath the sun and moon
That just may lead to your own doom

One day I'm going to visit Fiji
With my lady wearing a pink bikini
As we kick back with our own martinis

Could go on about drinks and food, like kiwis
Sweet Tea
And fettucine
Alfredo with roasted zucchini

But I'd rather spare you that completley

By: Dalton Ogletree

Mystery In Black and White

 amphibrachic verse 

It looks like a kiwi
No, kiwis are fuzzy.
Then maybe a lemon?
or lime? I'm obsessed.

Am I getting closer?
Misshapened? an orange?
A colorless photo,
confusing at best.

The white seems so hazy
while black’s overriding
and grays run together,
an image in stress.

The point of this quand’ry -
I’m missing my colors,
the clues that enlighten
my eyes to the quest.

written and posted first here at Poetry Soup - 5 Mar 2015 
by Reason A. Poteet
for Giorgio's Black and White Photography contest

This is my first try at using amphibrachic dimeter.
The amphibrach is a metrical foot of three syllables with the stress on the second syllable, or one long syllable between two short syllables, da DUM da

Scabs

Scabs in Australian history
The Labor Party came from the early Shearers strike, 1900s,
 where Unions fought for and got fair wages for the workers.
Later in the 1950s the Shearers had trouble with SCABS.
The Australian National Country Party brought in the Scabs to undercut the
wages of the hard working Shearers of Sheep .
Kiwis shearers were brought in at lower wages and fights developed,
between the Scabs and the Aussie workers...
The Farmers wanted cheap labour...
So worker swinging voter, you are being replaced in the Mines jobs,
By guess what? Cheap imported maybe 4 dollar an hour workers
on special Visas...Not funny to be kept out of work!
Howard the duck was ejected from his seat because of
 bringing in 100,000 cheap contract workers, 
ARE THEY STILL TAKING AUSSIE JOBS TODAY..?
DO YOU GET THE PICTURE? 
You vote for Abbots nasty people and you will be out of work, 
or would you like to work cheap ..Bo Peep SHEEP???
Don Johnson

Kiwi Napham

KIWI NAPHAM

THE KIWI FARMER GAGGED A BIT ,
THE METHANE SHOWER  IGNITED IT,
THE CIGGY BUTT IT FLASHED FOR SURE,
ENGULFING HIM IN A TINY ROAR,
HOLY SUFFERING KIWI TWIT!

NAPHAM METHANE COWSHIT SWORE,
MELTED INHIBITION'S OTHER DOOR,
SPRUNG FROM HIS OVERALLS,  DEPLORED,
THE TASTE OF FRESH COW-DUNG,

FRAGRANT COW IN BULLING TUNE,
MOUnTED HIM THE SMOKING LOON,
FACE DOWN IN THE MUD RIGHT SOON,
HE SWORE BUT BIT HIS TONGUE.

Don Johnson
 kIWIS ARE NEW ZEALANDERS

Aussie Flag O the Convict Spawn

Aussie Flag o the Convict spawn


 
Under this flag we fought for sure,
 defending Pommy gits and more, 
defending of our nation, 
in murderous situations, 
tween Afghans and the Boer...

we'd run it up the old flagpole,
fluttered there our heart and soul,
the Aussies are on station,
the convict spawn relation,
adventure is our goal,

you step on us we will step on you,
careful how you treat us blue, 
right cross to the snotter too,
in a stirry situation,

the Aussies and the Kiwis saw,
that we were cannon fodder for,
pommy overlords of nations,
respect for them no never when,
we spearheaded Tobruk and Alamein,
less pommy casualties to frame,
colonial extermination...

Don Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACFGr3G1In8

Come By Chance

RHYMER FRANK HALLIWELL SENT ME POEM
 BY FAMOUS AUSSIE BANJO PATTERSON,
 ABOUT A MYSTERIOUS COME BY CHANCE TOWNSHIP,
 THAT DON'T EXIST....




to Frank

so come by chance becomes a poem,
for the dreamers of the garden gnomes,
till the witless in their folly,
give up this ghasty dance,
and the sheep do run it terror,
from their romantic advance,
bleating c'mon termorrer,
it's our only Kiwi chance,
begorrah...

(AUSSIE JOKE ABOUT POMS AND SHEEP MAKING KIWIS , New Zealanders)
Don

Poetry Is

A bouquet of inner beauty,
unclothed, waits patiently
at the hem of wilderness:
it offers exuberant kiwis,
merciful bananas with an
ounce of disquiet: the sly ginger
root – this is me yielding to the
poetry of Mother Nature.

The Edge of Extinction

The Edge of Extinction

Silent humming birds
Great ocean whales
Deep unknown rain forests
Dark eyed Polar Bears
Ancient Loggerhead turtles
Ivory tusked Elephants

North American Indians
Eskimos
Australian Aboriginals
Lost South American Indians

Kiwis and Kakapo’s
Sperm whales
Blue whales
Narwhales
Killer whales
Prairies covered with Buffalo
Humpback whales
Deep forest Wolves
Ospreys and Kitty Hawks
Sparrow Hawks
Red Kites
High flying Bald Eagles

Gargantuan Grizzly Bears
And slinking ferocious Cougars
Snow Leopards
Tall majestic Elms and Rowans
Snow Tigers
And dark midnight Panthers
White Peacocks
And Peacock Butterflies
Green Hedge Warblers
Corn Crakes
Green Capped Wood Peckers

Wisteria
And rare Fox Gloves
Wild Orchids
And the wild, wild Mustang
Tiny Yellow Tree Frogs
Bandit masked Badgers
Soaring Californian Condors
Red Squirrels
Water Voles 
And Sea Otters
Forests of Kelp
Cromer Crabs   
Sad eyed Panda’s


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Sixteen thousand listed already
What species next

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