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Strange Guides

27 Tuesday Aug 2019

Posted by Dennis N. O'Brien in Humour

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Australian poet, Guide animals, Guide dogs, Mongoose, poem, poetry, Red-bellied black snake

๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž ๐†๐ฎ๐ข๐๐ž๐ฌ

I once knew a blind man, his name it was Jake.
His guide was no dog, but in fact was a snake.
A red-bellied black โ€” his reptilian guide
Was six feet in length and was two inches wide.
Jake had it in harness and followed its trail,
And sometimes heโ€™d give it a yank on the tail.
The snake never bit him, though fangs it would bare,
And hiss something like: โ€Iโ€™m your master.โ€ I swear!
Heโ€™d had a guide dog but the poor pooch had died
The day after Jake bought the snake โ€” poor Jake cried.
The vet, he had said: โ€œI suspect those two holes
In your guide dogโ€™s neck, they were not made by moles.โ€
The snake played his cards right โ€” he tended to cheat,
(Not easy when one has no hands, legs, or feet)
But managed to tempt Jake to give him a go
At guiding his footsteps โ€” they started off slow
But soon got it right, and Iโ€™d see them most days,
As Jake trailed behind the snakeโ€™s serpentine ways.
The end to this tale, well Iโ€™m sorry, itโ€™s sad,
(Although I suspect that that snake, he was bad)
The story was told by blind Jake at the wake:
One morning the pair of them, Jake and the snake,
Were walking (and slithering) slow through the fog.
Another blind man with a guide (not a dog)
Passed by them, and somehow the manโ€™s guide broke loose โ€”
No snake is a match for a hungry mongoose.

โ€” D.N. Oโ€™Brien

Gettinโ€™ a bit Dry

01 Wednesday Mar 2017

Posted by Dennis N. O'Brien in Bush Poetry, Humour, Nature

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Australian bush poetry, australian formal poetry, Australian poet, Australian understatement, drought, laconic humour, limerick, Limerick poem, Limerick poetry, poem, poetry, Red-bellied black snake

The lizards are dyinโ€™ of thirst,
And the red-bellied blacks โ€“ thatโ€™s a first.
All the cattle are dead
And the roos have all fled;
What we need is a flaminโ€™ cloudburst.

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