Best Angler Poems

I once dated a pilot …
We both had our head in the clouds
Our relationship lead to a lot of turbulence - 
I guess it never...

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There's a river winding gently through the pastures on the flats,
collecting tributaries of little creeks that the lower ground attracts.
'Tis the river that the angler...

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My father was a devoted fly fisherman who couldn’t resist the almost masochistic urge to wake in the quiet predawn hours and stumble, blurry eyed...

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Ample vicissitudes we both had faced
after the  blood-curdling shipwreck while on voyage
trapped in a warren, dreams sailed in a haze
my young master bravely tamed...

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Shallow edged with twigs, and sodden leaves
The odors of the earth, green moss and peat
The roots of quiet trees and rotting logs
The crumbling bank where...

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The trousers he's wearing are Wrangler -
they're great for his job as an angler
(although on a trip
he busted his zip
and showed all those present his...

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Where the forest is still virgin and the lyrebirds often call,
the bronze-wing comes to drink, and the ferns are growing tall, 
there are deer prints...

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THE ANGLER and THE WAITING GAME

Along the shallow sloping winter bourne 
The water trickles to the stream to drain
The rain-wet fields on bone cold winter...

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"Look around and see how birds and animals disclose the secrets of self survival and display how their bodies are streamlined to excel in their...

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be patient

little angler ~

overcast...

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At the foot of the Elbow,
just above the Bow,
an angler drowned
his feet caught 
in a shopping cart
split-cane rod still 
firmly in his grasp.

On the Grand
just...

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many bites

little angler ~

mosquitoes...

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Angler
Jitters the bug
Atop the placid pond
The darkness obscures his stalk
The strike!...

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I troll downstream; drop anchor and wait
To seize the day with just the right bait
I feel my first hit, a pulse one can’t see
Though anxious,...

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DON'T BLOCK YOUR BLESSINGS

An idiot sinking in the sea came up on a deserted island.
He had heard the philosophy of man is not an island,...

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