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Floraholica | Pam Harris | ||
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When it's all said 'n done, with yer life nearly gone, and on thinkin' yer past mistakes over, Tho' drinkin's no sin, it's what y'pour in, and I think I would rather stay sober. |
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| No Egrets | Ian Mackay | |||
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All these years I've driven in the country, You know I've always wondered how; When you'd see a field full of cattle, There was always one egret... for every cow. |
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| Spring Has Sprung | Doug Miles | |||
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A topical poem (submitted in spring, anyway) about the "dark side" of many people's favourite season. |
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| The Flatulence Tax | John O'Neill | |||
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A flatulence tax on cattle and sheep, Another rip-off to make us all weep. Preserving the ozone at any expense, It's all propaganda that doesn't make sense. |
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| The Lorikeets | Vida Rideout | |||
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Have you heard the lorikeets when they get "drunk" on the berries of the umbrella tree? What a raucous noise they make! This inspired me to write the poem. |
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| The Vegie Garden | Bette Moss | |||
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He'd purchased a lovely new rotary hoe all shining and red a delight And started in ploughing the virgin soil working from morning till night ... |
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| Trainee Vegetarain | Arcadia Flynn | |||
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I'm a trainee vegetarian I eat rice It's nice...with curried beef I'm a trainee vegetarian... |
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| West Emissions | Dorothy B. West | |||
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Burps and farts, burps and farts ... They send sky-high the Greenhouse charts. While cows serenely chew the cud And broadcast gases in a flood,... |
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