Best Angling Poems

Cast to the left of me, cast to my right
Cast out in front of me but I can’t get a bite
I’ve changed my tactics many times, tried legering and float
And now the heavy pouring rain has soaked right through my coat

Eyes peeled, alert, despite the...

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Throw away your lines and hooks,
For to catch a fish at the dead of night,
You don’t need those ‘how to books’
Just use a stick of gelignite....

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This hole in my breast
Hollowed out 
by the pointless drilling
of empty thoughts
that go nowhere
and lead to nothing.
Shapes dance before my eyes
Ghosts from a stolen moment
Wraiths of smoke and cold air
Echoing the cradle, heralding the grave.
It feels like I'm walking over broken glass
Shoeless and without direction
Going...

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We stowed behind an enormous flint wall.
Men are battling for control of the appall. 
Our covering bastion shuddered and shook. 
Brief, yet oddly comfy, relief from the brook.

While grizzly bears wailed in the dimness. 
We were inside, getting ready for food distress. 
Blue blazes are licking...

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