Short Goannas Poems

a man of words ..better by a third,...
than the rich man's, potentality,
likely not to be read or heard,
when the san-goannas wee...

thanks Dave Williams ....

Don...

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Goats
the angels are taking note,
on how yer not acting the goat,
if ya act the goat in time,
they'll figure out the goat drinks wine,
the san-goannas know it,
inbreeding suits em fine,
to be a goat of a poet,
just aint a bloody crime...
Don
re : "Living life" Debbie Duncan...

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you paint a picture with the words,
another world, where fly the birds,
and natures tune is strummed,
into Aussie's heads is drummed,
Crocs and Sharks will eat you chum,
but the new chums, aint perturbed?
they get eaten like a nerd,
where the Sand-Goannas run:)
sometimes ...

Don Johnson

re: Louisiana Bayou...Leo Larry Amadore...

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I yield to the earth
in supplication to nature
with worship in each breath


listening to a sermon
of kookaburras
as a kangaroo bounds out
a plate for tithe


I see goannas parade
the ancient rites
and koalas swoon
with the new age gospel
waving their faces,
and hanging from their mouths


and the platypus
monks of cold,
carry the testaments 
to the deepest hovels


living with just one heart
I can breathe a tide,
and find home...

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Silence
Beware the silence in your head,
Best check to see if you are dead,
The words are there but nothing said,
Blood does flow, still bloody red,
Prospect uninviting, 
Sandgoannas are a fighting,
They want to eat old Fred
Don Johnson


if you're dying in the donga, 
by the shores of linga longa, 
and the dingoes howl cos tuckers on the way, 
and the crows are circling yonder,
upon a feed to ponder, 
but the Goannas have it covered here today:) ...

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