KRACKATINNI'S
Potpourri of Pertinent Poetry and Verse
By
Rodney John O'Brien
A potpourri of poetry from all walks of life, Sadness, happiness, controversial and political.
KRACKATINNI PRESS
2008
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A Potpourri of Pertinents looks at everyday life from a skeptical, political and sometimes from a humorous point of view is now available in hard print for
$35.00 plus p&h (55 Poems and Verse with Glossary; approx 172 pages)
Email: "krackatinni@hotkey.net.au"
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Verse Number & Title.
Click on the number to go directly to the choosen verse.
151.....Krackatinni War Cry
165.....Grogalong
178.....I Told Ya's
180.....Bloody Skiting Poets
181.....John Henry's Cafe
183.....Battle or Prattle
184.....A Garden for Thee
186.....That Bastard He Would Die
187.....The Chop Shop
191.....Australia Day 1999
194.....Plastic-Barmaid
205.....Ode to Greg and Karen
211.....Pammie and Sadie
230.....Said Hanrahan
231.....Growing Old
233.....Give It Up
239.....Mary Oh' Mary
243.....A Place in the Scrub
262.....She
267....."Mozzie's Hey"
270.....The Question
280.....What's Happened To Those Churches?
291.....Time And Grog
292.....Games Kids Play
306.....The Time Has Come
310....."CyberSex" From a Ladies Point of View
317.....Those words You Say
319.....She's Born Again She Says
336.....My Birthday, The June 25, 2000
337.....What the Heck
341....."If'ers"
342.....Would It Matter?
345.....I'm Gunna' be a Politician
354.....The Desert
355.....Like A Dunny Door
360.....As I Tramp My Way Through Life
362.....The Friend We Thought We Had
367.....My Ode to Cathy Freeman
372.....Morning Sun
373.....Fools of Poetry
383.....Drought
394.....X's
408.....When a Song is Sung
413.....A Birthday Cake for Jesus
419.....An Added Incentive to Smokers Who Wish to Visit Me
439.....Just Smile and Be Happy
440.....Going to the Pictures
446.....Age Or Youth
468.....There Was a Young Man
482.....Jim and Billy
496.....Why Some Ducks Whistle
502.....The Jilted Lover
506.....Please Give It Up
508.....Apes of Wrath
510.....Niggers, Nuns and Irishmen
518.....Does God Live in Queensland?
521.....I, The Desert Wind
534.....Search for Stinky Well
535.....The Slackest Alpaca's
539.....The Op-tree-mistic Optometrist
542.....On the Slope
543.....Leben Lousy Limericks
551.....Daddy's Daughter
552.....Clarence Crow
553.....There was a Silly Old Skunk
554.....Six Silly Limericks
555.....Rickits
556.....A Bloody Bonzer Sort
557.....Birthdays
563.....Kerry Louise
565.....Strike Two
575.....A Droplets Dream
599.....Part Time Aboriginal
607.....A Recipe for Yogurt
609.....A Little Stinker
616.....Grazzie's New Pee-Anna
627.....A Husband and His Wife
630.....Collie
631.....Bouncer
632.....Another Drought
639.....Nothin' Left To Loose
645.....From W A Back to Queensland
646.....Wooden
649.....When I Get Fuckin' Angry
652.....My First Verse
666.....Ten Little Ginny-girls
667.....Ten Little Black-boys
672.....Dumb Ditties
673.....New Life
682.....To Aunty Mone
685.....Richard
694.....Sorry Day
695.....At Eeze
706.....Pumpkin Pie
707.....A Cat Up a Tree
709.....Raisins, Steak and Broccoli Pie
711.....Mary' Lou's Kangaroo
712.....George's Big Flash Porsche
716.....45 Today
719.....A Prized Wanker
727.....Rhyming Words
729.....As I Recall
733.....Mirror, Mirror
734.....To Write a Poem
737.....Cobwebs and Flies
738.....Black Man in a Noose
747.....Words or Noses
751.....Death of a Kangaroo
752.....Desert Wind
753.....Our Visitor
761.....Crumpets
763.....Hunger
766.....Grey Clouds
768.....Death
776.....Pommie Umpires
777.....Woolarama 2002
781.....A Small Cottage
783.....Did You