When I go to sleep at night,
I dream of lots of things.
Blue spaghetti and bowls of fruit,
A four-legged man playing a flute,
A buffalo with purple wings,
A refrigerator taking flight.
That’s why I like to stay awake
And think of triple-layered cake.
Have you ever heard a kangaroo
Go ah-choo, ah-choo, ah-choo?
Have you ever seen a koala
Wearing a balaclava?
Cold kookaburras like to laugh,
But have you ever seen one wearing a scarf?
Owls make hoots
But don’t wear boots,
And as for wombats,
They don’t need hats.
So how come you and I will sneeze,
In the midst of winter’s icy freeze?
AlPACas PACk their lunch with spoons
The OWL decides to hOWL at noon
The HORSE feels HOaRSE when he yells of course
The aARdvARK digs in the old cARpARK
The pONY hates the stONY rOAD
(Quite unlike his friend, the tOAD)
Nonsense poems make me SnOOZe
But they amuse my friends in ZOOS!
Australian Children’s Poetry 