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The Dragon, Platypus and Unicorn - Revised

I

A dragon, platypus, and unicorn,
drank in a bar and soon locked horns.
The air was tense - would it come to blows?
The unicorn spoke, "Which one knows
a truth which he dares to conceal?  
One of us is... disgracefully real."

II

"It's a sad state of affairs - is it not,"
said the dragon, "when one of us is caught". 
Sweat broke out in little beads 
on the platypus forehead of evil deeds.
In a fate worse than he had feared,
the platypus simply disappeared.

Water-Borne

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 way Down Under
is the odd-looking bottom-feeding
no muss nor fuss
otter-footed beaver-tailed
egg-laying duck-billed platypus
the males of which are venomous
an excellent swimmer
whenever it dives
it closes its ears nose and eyes
altho' a riparian carnivore
electroreception is how it survives

beaver mole or platypus

Beaver, mole or platypus? It waddles like all three.
I watch the creature scoot along, wild, weird and free.
If she pauses along the way to leave some tiny eggs down
I will call her Platte City Platypus, named for my uncle’s town.

The Marvelous Platypus

The platypus excels at evolution
And displays a super cool solution
For making his way amidst the muck, 
He don't run aground.  He don't get stuck.
Of this, the platypus would never dream
As a self-respecting monotreme.
Indeed, a platypus of station
Will employ electrolocation.

Platypus Roosevelt

A couth poetic platypus,
Choosing words that are never rude,
Carries a heavy blunderbuss,
And softly croons a platitude.

Platypus

It’s true, we both swim through the muck,
But don’t compare me to a duck.
No, I wouldn’t do that until
You’ve reckoned my rubbery bill.

Wallaby

I wanna be a wallaby
And not just a wanna-be,
Not a kangaroo or 
Silly platypus

But, if I can’t be a wallaby
I think that I would wanna be
A plump and dumpy
Hippopotamus!

Platypus

You're such a pretty platypus, as pretty as can be
There is no other platypus, as beautiful to me
More beautiful than all the other creatures in the zoo
That’s why I'm so glad that I'm a platypus like you

Platypus and Echidna

Make room for the platypus and echidna
Only found in Australia, cha cha cha!
With body temps lower than other animals
They are the earth’s only egg laying mammals

Move over, for they are waddling through.
Here is one, two, seven, eight, sixteen, twenty-two
They have such a small face, and hair on their back.
They waddle right over, without politeness or tack.

Make room for the platypus and echidna my friends.
They are living down under, where loveliness never ends. 
We like watching them lay their eggs, they do not mind a bit.
But if we dare disturb them, they would have a fit!

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 an egg

The hippopotami
Don’t eat the platy pie
Because the hippo bake
Is better served with cake

The platy pie who pluck
Are eating Peking duck
Because the ducks that pry
Are dinner by and by

I knew a platypus
Who shared her duck with us
My dinner pals were thrilled 
Because the duck was billed

O what a cunning creature
To don a double feature
The mammal with a plus
A duck-billed platypus.

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 best friend
a stuffed platypus her companionship I didn't want to end
the sweetness of my lips was what attracted my new enemy

he berrated me and I used my hands said "go away"
he continued to persue my soft and juicy lips
when I hit he stung me and I cried

mother started laughing as I sobbed 
I didnt understand why she and him were being cruel
until she led me to a mirror and I looked just like 
a duck billed platypus

Echidna and Platypus Besties

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 as a wren.
She was told to keep this under wraps, by her brother.
Their love for eating worms and insects made them friends.
That was something they could talk about with each other.

Echidna’s spikes were dangerous on the ends.
Most certainly out in the open, not hidden from platypus.
Platypus’s five sharpie claws helped make them friends.
He could dig insects up for his mate, Echidna, without fuss.

The platypus’s venom reveal might have meant no friendship,
He retained this secret; he kept it under lock and key.
Echidna’s secret would have given them another reason for kinship,
If she had discovered that Platypus can lay eggs like me.

The Platypus

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


John G. Lawless
©8/22/2018

The Platypus

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 bill mouth and otter foot,
And beaver sort of tail,
And then it’s got its venomous poison, 
In a curly black toenail,

And, as a mammal, what’s really odd, 
It lays eggs like a chook…
These are reasons I love spotting platypus,
When they’re swimming in a brook.

Platypus

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, 1922. 
Their diet was egg& chips, now they are sophisticated 
Chips with curried sauce
Always willing to fight for the USA proud soldiers with 
tropical hats that make an easy target. 
More sheep than people so what do you expect they shear 
sheep and like it, chips fried in ewe fat.
The platypus takes no interest in this can it be made into 
a Vietnam duck, a country the Aussie were lured into invading. 
Australia is in a way a Platypus can`t make up its mind whether 
it is a far eastern country or a European settlement.

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