Platypus Poems

Bobblebobleautopus
family friend of the platypus 
with mini feet tiny petite 
his costume’s fit for trick-or-treat

one foot tall fat overall 
taking all day crawling to haul
seemingly strange 
he roams his range estranged 

brown round with bill profound 
elliptical eyes see around
envelop...Read More

10/17/19
"Brand New"


I'd be damned to quit
Putting out some brand new s***
With a brand new drip
In my a step a brand new skip

Brand new tint
Steering wheel with a brand new grip
In a brand new whip
With a brand new chick

On my hip...Read More

Oh yeah if you’re a fisherman,
and you’re rung up by a mate,
there’s always time to put down tools
with no need to contemplate,
‘cause fishing has that magic draw
to take you to your peak -
and evening is always best
to fish in the...Read More

The duck-billed platypus 
is a bizarre anomaly!
Why, its anatomy defies
the laws of probability!

Could it be the Lord
was distracted or bored?
Or was it an evolutionary glitch
or a confounding hoax. Which?

Or is the platypus a hodge-podge 
of leftover appendages 
of other complete...Read More

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 best friend
a stuffed platypus...Read More

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 platypus 
with attitude from Hades,
wearing pink top hat
with glitzy yellow band
unnoticed in this...Read More

For many years, the creek, ran passed as a drain,
Polluted and unloved; a poisoned murky vein.
A favoured dumping place, for household unwanted things -
out of sight, out of mind; and no good what it brings.

Life was almost non-existent in the...Read More

Early one morn the sun did sink
   in the west as the moon arose
And Farmer Jones inspected his rose
   of purple corn, which began to dance
Shedding sheaves, donning pants...

While in the barn, the cow was neighing
...Read More

The echidna and the platypus were friends.
They both had a teeny tiny secret, one and the other.
The sweet platypus had venom on his ends.
He was told to keep this hidden by his mother.

The short-nosed echidna could lay eggs as well...Read More

The platypus
creation committee
Who’d God put in time out?


John G. Lawless
©8/22/2018
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Gimme a break, Drake
In the space I own 
In May, June or July to rake
In tonnes of peace without the groan

That serves no useful purpose
In the scheme of strategies I adopt
To rid my life of the toxic venom from the...Read More

Charlie, the platypus,
Had a big yellow bus.
Charlie, the platypus, did.

Mary, the elephant,
Was quite elegant.
Mary, the elephant, was.

Sidney, the parakeet,
Could sing so very sweet.
Sidney, the parakeet, could.

Rodney, the kangaroo,
Counts all the way to two.
Rodney, the kangaroo, does....Read More

Insomniac attack is back or Animalistical (I'm not even sure that is a real word but F.I.(that is an anachronism that means fudge it( unless you’re an adult then you know which word fudge is replacing(or a poor kid raised...Read More

The elusive, furry platypus,
Is a surviving monotreme,
Living above and below the water, 
Of any Aussie stream,

Where it lives a pure autonomous life, 
With a bric a brac design,
Made up from bits of others, 
A sort of animal Frankenstein,

With its duck...Read More

WE SIT and watch our amber tigers
beautifully silent now, their stripes gone, however
they lie by the bedside in their fleeting splendour
with the serenity of heaven’s blue
a reminder of heartbreak on a wedding day
an image of awakening
I think that they’re dying.

WE...Read More

One day a placid platypus was playing in a kitchen. He had discovered that there was often much to sort and much to sort was often much fun. Other platypuses did not realise how much can be gleaned from the...Read More

Written Not To Be Read

> It was before it was prophecied for what to prophecy the prophets dint exit but the prophecy like air we our lungs to it infrate so did it exist the dinosaurs extinct platypus indigenous but...Read More

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 then...Read More

Oh wow just look at that tower. It is the tower of towels. They are in a queue waiting for the dryer today. The drier is having a manicure so they will all have to just wait. Yes that's right...Read More

Skylights warn and warm where acorns drip. The slight angle of acidity in the air can be measured accurately with a ruler or the nib of a ball point pen. Ball point pens are not really balls or points for...Read More

a quote from Montaigne: (1533-1592):
"Si on me presse dire pourquoi je l'amais, je sens que
cela ne se peut s'exprimer, qu'en repondant:
'Parce que c'etait lui; parce que c'etait moi."
(translation:  "If I am pressed to say why I loved him,
I feel...Read More

Twenty two snails were dancing in a line, for they had consumed some wine, the wine had been left by humans in the yard, the glasses full, no breaks, no shards. Safely pulling themselves up the stems. Then suckling up...Read More

Is Platypus a beaver? Or is it quacking duck  
Not proper as pet
What to feed this bizarre thing that is odd as 
An Australian, strange people the down under
Half criminal half saints 
They used to be impossible British Say,...Read More

Pretty Persian kitty, wearing an ivory coat,
Big blue eyes for mischief and soft as silk,
She prances and dances when I get home,
And my gift to her is a warm glass of milk.

Pretty Persian kitty, with tiny ears of pink,
A matching...Read More

My dear Ornithorhynchus,
Why do you confuse us?
Neither mammal nor bird
You are a creature absurd.

You are a mammal they say
Yet yellow yolked eggs you lay
And suckle your young
To scale evolution's rung.

Your pelt is so fine
But you root like the swine
In the...Read More