Laundry Room
...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 leak...
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Categories:
redback, humor,
Form: Free verse
Paean On a Cute Antipodean
...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...
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Categories:
redback, romantic, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Redback
...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 lik...
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Categories:
redback, adventure, red,
Form: Rhyme
Nasty Aussies
...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...
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Categories:
redback, adventure
Form: Rhyme
Unlucky Snake
...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.
AN...
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Categories:
redback, animals
Form: Limerick