Kate O'Neil
  • About Kate
  • Poems for Children I
    • Gargoyle Guile
    • A Fairy's Day
    • Wynken,Blynken and Nod
    • Emergency!
    • Waiting for James
    • Blue Jeans Rap
    • Bedtime Boogie
    • Decibel
    • The Scared Scarecrow
    • Auntie Jean
    • Maximouse
    • Telling the Fleas
    • The Means of Grace
    • Worm-Farm Blues
    • Liar BIrd
  • Poems for Children II
    • Class Rules
    • Scribbly Gums
    • The Back of Beyond
    • Thackaringas
    • Barefoot
    • Mango Spell
    • Coo-ee
  • Poems for Children III
    • The Reading Bug Explorer
    • Mutt Sings the Blues
    • Tree-Toad Tragedy (for Troy)
    • Sea Sparkle
    • The Kid from Camdenville
    • The Yarn of Shaun the Sheep
  • Poems starring Prima Donna
    • Prima Donna and the School Uniform
    • Prima Donna and the Lollipop Man
    • Prima Donna Reviews the Zoo
    • Prima Donna Chooses a Pet
  • Poems from 'Let in the Stars'
    • High Achievers
    • Paragliders Bald Hill Lookout
    • Sondry Folk
  • Poems - Silly Stuff
    • Classy Darcy
    • Happy as Larry
    • Idyllicacryliclycralyric
    • Home Thoughts from Australia
    • Language Teachers
    • The Man Behind the Mower
    • Time Out
    • Twitterpation
    • Beetrootome
    • The Quick Brown Fox
    • Animal Feed Available at Restaurant
  • Poems - More Silly Stuff
    • Apples and Pears
    • Mind your Ps and Qs: A Cautionary Tale
    • UQ
  • Sydney Poems
    • Lament of the kangaroo gargoyle on the clock tower – Sydney University
    • “Giraffe Removals. All Suburbs.” (Sydney billboard)
    • Tom Ugly's Spirit Talks Back
    • Eternity
  • Other Poems
    • 'Skint' or 'The Win'
    • The Cynic Route
    • Man and Moonshine
    • The Touch-Lamp Christmas Angel
    • Cell Door Open
    • Sunflowers at Wilcannia
    • A wheatfield, very yellow...
    • Hills Hoist
    • Hosts
    • His Publisher to Adam
    • Imagine
    • Carnival of the Animals
  • Buzzings from the Bees in my Bonnet
    • On Being Elocuted
    • Poetry and the Role of the Toe in Scansion
    • Some Thoughts on teaching Don Quixote.
    • John Thelwall: “Citizen” John, political activist, atheist reprobate, acquitted felon, poet, Professor of Elocution and speech therapist.
    • On 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
  • Contact Kate

LANGUAGE TEACHERS


On the day that
Herr Brüm
swept into the room.
we could not lure
Monsieur Obscure
away from
Signora.
He couldn’t ignore ’er.

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