Polliwogs and pobblebonks
I could be quite mistaken
but I’m feeling pretty sure
that polliwog’s a word
you’ve never come across before.
And pobblebonk’s another,
with a funny kind of sound,
a word I’m also certain
you have never seen around.
They’re not a type of candy
or variety of fish.
They’re not exotic items
in some oriental dish.
They don’t have beaks or feathers
and they’re not a breed of dog.
A polliwog’s a tadpole
and a pobblebonk’s a frog.
Jenny Erlanger
Australian Children’s Poetry 
What a wonderful poem. Regards Louise
Lovely Jenny. I can vividly hear the sound of the pobblebonks on my daughter’s farm at Heahtcote in Victoria.
A lovely lesson in amphibians! I looked up the Latin name for the pobblebonk – Limondynastes dumerilii and found it is Australian too 🙂 Thanks for that lovely poem!