Long Captain cook Poems

Visualize my children and you shall look
Upon the voyage of Captain James R. Cook;
It was the eighteenth of January in Seventeen Seventy-Eight;
Hardly a Hawaiian can forget the Date;
What befell upon the Islands was a terrible...

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With canoe and hook of a jawbone
  below a great fish Maui snared,
and his brothers half-crazed behaving
  leapt and gouged in frenzy craving.
From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga 
 (departing place of the...

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Lenny was 30 and still living with his old cheese, everyone called, Lenny’s mum.
She was always on his Cadbury Snack to go find a trouble and strife for a chum.
“Geez, leave off mum, I’ve been...

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No longer are we isolated, 
		In this far away country,
		With the toy of modern society, 
		Internet and satellite TV.
		A little picture tube,
		That brings the world to our shore;
		The Universe is at our doorstep, 
		Knocking at...

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WHAT DO WE DO...?

What do we do...?
When Tantalizer is no longer tantalizing
When Captain cook is no longer Captain at cooking
When Mr. Biggs has suddenly become big for nothing
When Mr. Banwil no longer have the will...

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Australia the lucky country but not for all,
It's time to tell a tale that's not so tall.
The country's past is dark and really no mystery,
Most people know the country has a black history.
Captain Cook arrived,...

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What is this flower perched like bird on stem
With tiny feathery florets in pews
Aligned along rows on cylinder heads?
Tis Banksia, native of Australia.

Named after botanist Sir Joseph Banks,
Who sailed on "Endeavour" with Captain Cook
To unearth...

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Let me teach you a thing or two
Passed down from elders’ past,
You won’t learn this from library books
Nor technology contrast.

About so-called Australia 
About the frontier wars,
About all of my ancestors…
Shot dead upon the shores.

Captain Cook...

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Captain cook


I built a ship in a vale of stones and thorny bushes
It took 24 years and more to set sail on a dream 
boat to China
I met her on the blue sea of Malaga,...

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far back in 278 Anno Domini 
Emperor Claudius II had hung
a holy priest called Valentine,

Captain Cook on the 14th of '79
having circumnavigated his life was
not a God, so killed by native blood line

the Teddy Bear's...

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I was Indiana, riding with rifle pointing ahead,
then Cassanova, lost count of how many in my bed,
as Sitting Bull, I looked down directing my braves,
I passed under an arch, giving one of Cleopatra's waves.

Tried to...

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Captain Cook.
I built a ship in a vale of stones and thorny bushes
it took 24 years and a bit more .
 from here I set sail on the dream boat to China.
I met her in...

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It wasn't in India, it wasn't even here,
rather, where you wanted it to be my dear,
I don't like the food and all the old fogeys,
they all just sit there picking their bogeys.

We tell stories: some...

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So the word is out
In most of the Pacific places
Captain Cook sailed to on his voyages 
Local laws and customs were broken
And he was lucky to not be killed
For these offences by the local people

But...

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