Saint Patrick
rid ireland
of the snakes
sent them to oz
where they thrive
to join
the venomous spiders
wolf spider
sharks
box jelly fish
blue ringed octopus
stone fish
things that kill
some are pretty
blue ringed octopus
the british used oz
as a dumping ground
for undesirables and crims
heaven did the same
with all the other
unwanted species
hunstman spider
sent off to
the driest continent on earth
the world's dumping ground
famous for
Ned Kelly
the best bushrangers
with attitude
Mick Fanning 2016
the best surfers
with more attitude
the best feisty chicks
with most attitude
convict women baring their arses in a church service in
the early colony...definitely unsaintly behaviour
aussie chicks at play and like their forebears not at all saintly!
Midweek Motif PU
Well, this was an entertaining response to the prompt....LOL. Am smiling.
ReplyDeleteOk. I knew you wouldn't have a saintly post today. But you sure have a funny one. Thanks Rail.
ReplyDeleteI agree, this is spectacular :D
ReplyDeleteHmmm. This is a take on St. Patrick's Day that is totally new to me! So that's the origin story of your great land?!!
ReplyDeleteWith a bit of poetic license thrown in:)
DeleteNow our tourism minister is going to get cross with you. We were also a dumping ground for displaced and disgruntled people and became great being so.
ReplyDeleteLOL i luv the first image "scoot"
ReplyDeleteenjoyed your catalog of the banished, thanks for dropping in to read mine
much love...
wow, oz certainly has some dangerous creatures..
ReplyDeleteI actually killed a huntsman spider a couple of days ago. They are huge. Fortunately it was not on my computer because the best way is to clobber them with a shoe:)
DeleteI very much smiled when I read this little installment. Rall You Rock!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI do disagree with the last comment, though, as these Aussie Chicks looked rather angelic . . . ooo la lala.
Making folk smile may give me a few brownie points in the hereafter:)As a Catholic I am compelled by my religion to enjoy life here on earth....a lot of us seem to excel at this part of the doctrine... playing irish harps and downing them as well e.g.
DeleteWe actually have one female Aussie Catholic saint...a feisty nun who told the Bishop to get stuffed , was excommunicated,kept on doing a whole lot of good things and was made a saint just recently:)
I am never going to tell the Bishop to get stuffed so I will probably never be made a saint ( that and other reasons:)Nice to see you here. Put a pen to paper and whip up a few masterpieces for PU. All the gals miss you!
http://nicholasjv.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/st-mary-mackillop.html#comment-form
DeleteI have never been to Australia - but the thing that impresses me is that out of those unwanted people and beasts developed a thriving, independent and thankfully (in the best way) un-saintly country
ReplyDeleteOz makes them beautiful and fearless survivors. Something the English couldn't appreciate (apparently)
ReplyDeleteI love the directions you took this, Rall! So much whimsy in this and since I'm the mayor of OZ... Walt
ReplyDeleteHa! Loved it, Rall... And yet there is beauty in Australia's terror and pluckiness, compassion, feistiness and goodness in the mish-mash of its populace.
ReplyDeleteYes indeed !
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