“True bugs are suckers” by Celia Berrell with Notes

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True bugs are suckers

 

A true bug’s an insect

but insects aren’t bugs

if they eat by chomp-chomp

instead of glug-glug.

 

Ants are not bugs.

They’ve got mandible jaws.

While a bug’s beaky tube

will get used like a straw.

 

Bugs feed on liquids

like plant-juice or blood

by piercing the skin

and then sucking, glug-glug.

 

Cicadas and bed-bugs

are glug-sucking guys.

But ladybird beetles

aren’t bugs – so get wise!

 

First published in Double Helix(September 2016)
Reproduced with permission of CSIRO
www.doublehelix.csiro.au

 

“Free as a Ladybird” by Sioban Timmer

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Free As a Ladybird

 

Ladybird ladybird fly to your tree

The children are screaming and coming to see

They have a big jar and a challenge to get

A most lovely bug they can keep as a pet

 

Ladybird ladybird fly away free

Take to the wind and race with the bee

For you are too quick and too nimble and wild

To be trapped and contained by a curious child

 

Ladybird ladybird fly to your den

The children have gone and you’re safe once again

The garden is quiet just you and the gnomes

Now the children have all raced away to their homes.

“Ladybird” by Kylie Covark

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Ladybird

 

A ruby jewel

Lands on my hand

And I’m in love

But understand

That though I’d so

Love her to stay

This spotty friend

Must fly away.

“Food Art” by Jenny Erlanger

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Food art

This mashed potato sculpture

is a splendid work of art,

the best I’ve ever seen, I’d have to say

and every slice of carrot,

carved to look just like a heart,

you’ve set out in a most creative way.

The broccoli looks pretty

cut in perfect little flowers.

I love the way the peas spell out my name

and I know that you’ve been working

on this masterpiece for hours,

but I’m sorry, every night I feel the same.

It doesn’t really matter

what you do to all this food,

what handiwork you serve me up for tea.

I may seem quite ungrateful

and perhaps a little rude,

but, they still all taste like vegetables to me!

 

“Pat’s Cafe” by Chris Owen

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Pat’s Café

Have you heard about this restaurant? They call it Pat’s Café,

It’s famous for its specialties like ‘Dungball of the Day’,

The punters flock from far afield to try the bolognaise,

Made from the finest cow manure and slurry mayonnaise.

 

They do a lovely paddock pie (the critics all agree),

That’s cooked from fresh ingredients they grow organically,

And for the connoisseur there’s much to make them lick their lips,

Like cowpat flavoured fizzy-pop with battered dung and chips,

 

But the top dish on the menu simply has to be a scoop,

Of dung ice-cream and sprinkles with a giant squirt of poop.

Yes, Pat’s Café gets rave reviews from diners in the know,

There’s nowhere else that dung beetles with taste would rather go.

 

“Bee Butterfly” by Andrew Carter

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“Creating Fun” by JR Poulter

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“Sharpen Up Mr Squiggle” by Jeanie Axton

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Sharpen Up Mr Squiggle

 

After 60 years of drawing

his nose was all but blunt

So our famous Mr Squiggle

went on a sharpener hunt

 

He took his rocket to the moon

with Blackboard and Miss Jane

They found a big red sharpener

and his pencils sharp again

 

“The Year of the Pig” by Jan Darling

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