Fur And Feathers Poem by A B Banjo Paterson

Fur And Feathers

Rating: 2.7


The emus formed a football team
Up Walgett way;
Their dark-brown sweaters were a dream
But kangaroos would sit and scream
To watch them play.

'Now, butterfingers,' they would call,
And suck-like names;
The emus couldn't hold the ball
They had no hands, but hands aren't all
In football games.

A match against the kangaroos
They played one day.
The kangaroos were forced to choose
Some wallabies and wallaroos
That played in grey.

The rules that in the west prevail
Would shock the town;
For when a kangaroo set sail
An emu jumped upon his tail
And fetched him down.

A whistler duck as referee
Was not admired.
He whistled so incessantly
The teams rebelled, and up a tree
He soon retired.

The old marsupial captain said,
'It's do or die!'
So down the ground like fire he fled
And leaped above an emu's head
And scored a try.

Then shouting, 'Keep it on the toes!'
The emus came.
Fierce as the flooded Bogan flows
They laid their foemen out in rows
And saved the game.

In native bear and Darling pea
They dined that night:
But one man was an absentee:
The whistler duck, their referee,
Had taken flight.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Nirvana 30 August 2018

Banjo Patersons poem Fur and Feathers has inspired my by the historic and social event he has use and by his choice of vocabulary, verb, verb groups, nuns, noun groups, etc.

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Biscuit 26 July 2020

Normally, Banjo Paterson writes really amazing poems, but this one has the WORST rhyming pattern and beat. It makes NO sense and is really bad.

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A person 02 September 2020

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ghjhgf 11 September 2022

boring

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Deb 26 August 2022

What is the message of the poem?

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fur and feathers 13 March 2022

how old was AB Patterson when he wrote this poem in 2012

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obama 12 November 2020

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up my pus 08 November 2020

hi I will like to say that this is one of the best poem I have read and this is my frist but this is so good my hurt cuzs of this

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