Short Platypus Poems

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


John G. Lawless
©8/22/2018...

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The debate rages,

           why is God our Platypus?

             one whole,many parts...



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

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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....

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Duckbilled platypus and koalas lead the way
Showed kangaroos and joeys Santa’s bag today
Santa showed up with a nosey kookaburra then
wanting a warm Aussie beach to plunge in...

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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!
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Excuse me sir, but 
I always tend to wonder when
I think of you and
your awesome powers, your
infinite wisdom...

What in heaven or earth were you thinking when you created the Platypus?...

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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...

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        ~ aka 'Better Duck' ~
  
   ‘Goose-a-Go-Go’ opened in Kokomo
   Fans demanded it move to Chicago
      A resounding success, luv
      We expected no less of
   A strip-teasing platypus from Soho
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Buffalo Clouds

Buffalo roam
The skies today 
Hides of white
Touch of gray

There’s platypus 
Pegasus
And
Hippo too

But it’s the Buffalo
Stampeding 
Our skies of blue

By: Bill MacEachern
03/29/2021...

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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....

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A platypus is living down under
He has a great fear of loud thunder

  When it rains, he takes shelter
  Makes a quick helter-skelter

Beneath a croc' he eyes lightning with wonder


Entry for Deborah Guzzi's limerick contest...

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If I only saw the beak,would I believe it too be a duck,
If I only saw the tail,would I believe it too be a beaver,
If I only felt it's claws,would I only belive it too be a predator...

The Platypus is an enigma of nature,since
distinguishing the heads or tail of anything...can be difficult...

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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....

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Fresh yummy blueberries

a dolphin in the sea

the turquoise sky above us

a platypus in a tree.

A recycling bin in your garage

a little aqua colored bird

a sapphire in a gem store

a puddle on the road.

The shiny light blue in the rainbow

a little blue seal

that is smooth to feel

BLUE is good for real!...

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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....

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A circle has no beginning and no end
An elbow has only one way to bend,
A triangle always has only three sides
No one knows where a platypus resides,
All totaled, a piano has eighty-eight keys
When you kneel, you get on your knees,
The clock ticks once for every second
Do you know the meaning of “fecund?” 

Written March 7, 2022...

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The first time I saw you - there -
Sophisticated, warm-blooded,
And for a kiss, you blubbered - 
Barbary lipped, presenting the bill.

If I'd snuggle up, you'd cover me in fur.
Coo-ee! A real little nest egg,
Said you had it all laid out -
Liar!

Paid me up the river,
Rule of the rudder,
Waddling off - 
As though your feet were webbed.

Then, as the tide ebbed -
More of me bled.

Keep your platitudes, Platypus!...

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She was warm to the touch
Cold to the bone
A sheepskin clutch
With a heart of stone
Her gentle webbed hands pulling, she drowns him
And he’s seeking solace as she comes up for air
A Benedict Arnold over easy, she confounds him
He comes with a start and she with a stare
Deciphering what truth, if any human remains
She’ll speak dolphin, he’ll just wail
White squid ink on her nightie stains
Her love scribbled on a platypus bill of sale...

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platypus features 
      greasepaint pallor weirdo clown
              red nose big honker 
        outlandish shoes flail around 
         crazy hairdo balding crown 

               eyes evoke pathos
    whitewashed face a haunting frown 
               empty seats again 
          last show in his frilly gown 
         tattered circus closing down


TATTERS Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Mystic Rose Rose
Howmanysyllables 5/7/5/7/7 x 2...

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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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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 it infinity Isaac newton couldn't do the math today I eat n sleep to it not yet prophecied drink and wake to it only linguists language the babylonians ciphered we can't understand so I simplify it to don't speak of the unknown if the known you dnt know...

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Have you seen the boobie? Asked Copper Mike to Steve McLiss.
Steve was horrified. Just one? What kind of woman is this?
Not a woman, but a platypus-look-alike, said instigator Mike.
She’s down by the red hibiscus cottage, want to take a hike?

They marched down the path, Steve, all excited ready to see
One boobie, and yet, he saw not one, but three.
And they were blue-footed boobys, not a boobie at all.
He stalked back to his barracks angry, right before mess call....

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Light larkish lackadaisical lassie lithe and lean
Measured Mesopotamia’s millionth mammoth, not all mean
Nonetheless, noticing the level of lithium in a coffee bean,
Opposing ornery ocelots who are seldom city seen

Providing palatable parables to Patty, platypus who loves to preen
Quarreling with irksome quail-herders who captivated lassie’s queen
Resisting relatives reaching for gardenia’s gruesome globs of green
Stalwart soldiers seriously slicing sluggishness from a computer screen....

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