Laundry Room
The central activity in
the laundry room isn’t the action of
washing and
drying my tatty, smelly clothes, it’s
the Daily Redback Spider Race.
Also, the laundry basket leaks
gas. The linen cabinet doors in
the laundry sometimes turn the
dazzling colour of a
butterfly.
Categories:
redback, humor,
Form: Free verse
Skype tells me it’s your birthday, Polly Ross,
a disembodied message from the ether
that nipped me like a redback. “Southern Cross” –
remember that? So, hurl it in my teeth, or
delete me, tweet me, blank me, come across –
do what you will, I’m living with the loss.
You probably no longer give a toss.
If only I’d a cooler glamour-gloss,
could be more Aussie actor (Meller? Heather?)
you’d see the gold, and set aside the dross.
I miss you, need you. There. But you’re the boss …
Categories:
redback, romantic, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Redback
Black Widow spiders we have here,
Way down south in Aus. They live,
We call em Red Back spiders, dear,
Splash of red on the, butt no jive,
but poison just aint cider.
Bite burns like fire McGwyver,
Been bit myself of course,
You find em on the toilet seat,
When bowels can cause remorse,
Watch out for this spider.
One visit to the nursing home,
The nurses were a screaming,
Spider on the bloody wall,
I punched it out, a winner called,
Flushed toilet water, dreaming.
Don Johnson 9-aug-11
Categories:
redback, adventure, red,
Form: Rhyme
Nasty Aussies
Nasty critters do we have
Under the Southern Cross
Deadly Funnel Web Spider
Deadly Blue ringed octopus
Box jelly fish might get you (deadly)
Great white shark eat you too (nice fella)
Our Redback spider nips a bit (burns like hot coal)
And Possums in the loo (toilet)
A Pelican will blurt on you (whitewash)
Cane toads come in the house (poison glands on back)
Sand goannas sucking eggs
Roo’s will punch you out
Pussycats they are perhaps
Paralyss tick gets you
Short arm snake attacks, gets slaps
The Shielas run off too
Don Johnson 15-may-11
Categories:
redback, adventure
Form: Rhyme
Unlucky snake
A slippery fellow named mandrake
From the zoo made a swift prison break
But a redback named Crunch
Had him for lunch
Down here our spiders eat snake.
AND,if you don’t believe me check out the photographs on my blog
Limerick contest May 8th 2010
Categories:
redback, animals
Form: Limerick