Long Gumboots Poems

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Our ability to fight climate change, 
May well depend on the number of green thumbs,
We vote for, to lead the charge.

This may lead to thumb printing all candidates,
For all positions to check if they are...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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