Best Coot Poems

Limerick: Once crazy Coot in spring chased female Coot

Once crazy Coot in spring chased female Coot
She squawked and shrieked and refused the suit:
He dived and swam up close
Then bit her tail and rose:
Jumped, did his bit and didn’t give a hoot !

© T. Wignesan –...

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South American Coot little birds
Black feathered wings with orange beak
Swims with a graceful swift in
The murky waters spout
Hiding in the green
Foliage when
Sees someone
Looking 
Them









Nayda Ivette
1-5-2016...

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Colorful Coot

Purple gallinule iridescence swimming, reflecting--
   

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 14, 2010

Poetic form: Monuku...

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3/4 cups brown sugar
1/4 cups honey
1/4 cups soy sauce
4 Tablespoons ground ginger
4 Tablespoons garlic powder
4 Tablespoons cayenne
1/2 cups lemon juice
3 Tablespoons of spiced rum

mix together and rub on a whole dry chicken
allow to marinade for 3 hours.
bake at 350 degrees until done....

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Old Coot Not Giving A Hoot

We gave the boot to an old coot,
Who had never ever given a hoot,
Not worth seeing;
Horrible being, 
While running away with the loot.

Jim Horn

Amassed and Surpassed

As Caren's poems have all amassed,
When combined Andrea's surpassed;
Time to spare,
By God not fair;
While counting...

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A shoal of roach fast scatter at my shadow.
Mother moorhen toots as chick ducks in
and out of overhanging ivy.

A boating flower floats along intact
with shadow's faithful dancing follow,
on gravel, then over weed and back.

Across the stream two white hat coots.
One ferries straw between its beak
with...

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