Get a Life
...Releasing a
lost-in-city
Inland Taipan
into the wild,
the snake handler
exclaimed with joy
'go! get a life'.
Slithering away snake
hissed back 'you too'!
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Categories:
taipan, humor,
Form: Free verse
Rage
...When rage grips over me
Blood spouts to my head
Veins throb and pulsate with anger
My body trembles with fury
I am a stranger to myself
The demons take over me
My taipan tongue spits venom
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Categories:
taipan, anger, angst, body, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Outside Dunny
...
In the fifties
it was the suburban icon
that survived the start
of the renovation phase
and still graced the backyards
of most houses in the neighborhood,
the ubiquitous Australian
outs...
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Categories:
taipan, childhood, dad, fear, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Fully Employed Now
...Humanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as ...
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Categories:
taipan, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Great Plan
...My name is Nate
I'm looking for a mate who can carry this crate and can't wait to follow our fate and is old enough to not be jailbait. We will have one date by his mother's garden gate I will most ...
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Categories:
taipan, funny,
Form: I do not know?
Dizzy Hes That Guy
...Saunters along, nonchalance
Dimpled craggy chin, cracks a wrinkled grin
eye slits that see beneath, within
casino cards, in his jacket coat
his past, a lot said and wrote
whiskey drinks, smoke...
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Categories:
taipan, character,
Form: Rhyme
Snake Keeps Galahs Outa Cars
...Snake Alarm
I have a mate called Paddy,
Who lives inside me car,
He never made it home to daddy,
He's brown n long haha,
He loves dem little brown Frogs,
He'll slurp n suck em down,
Brown boot...
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Categories:
taipan, courage,
Form: Ballad
Shall We Dance
...SHALL WE DANCE
Shall we dance, as two snakes encircling one another,
A bite to the strike, whom draws the first blood of
Passions bitter poison.
Venomous vipers, engaged in a twisted game of h...
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Categories:
taipan, animal, dance, desire, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In Lieu of the Rodeo
...Oh cripes I’ve gotta tell yer of a horror ride I had,
That beat any bronc or bull I’ve rode, and I must say I’m glad,
I’ll never have to ride like that, again to hold me seat.
Now rodeo is ‘kid...
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Categories:
taipan, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Aussie Taipan
...Aussie Taipan
To be a Taipan lethal quick
Deadliest land snake
Is my pick
Coffin head and longer fang
Watch out for the boomerang
9 foot long full of venom
Send spear thrower off to heaven
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Categories:
taipan, adventureme,
Form: Rhyme
A Cowboy Is
...A Cowboy is.
Out on the stock route 10 mile days
Keep those cattle moving
He hopes there’s grass and water, prays
His seat he won’t be losing……..watch them yang yang horses
The cattle settle...
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Categories:
taipan, cowboy-westernhorse, planet,
Form: Ballad