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Best Crawdads Poems

Below are the all-time best Crawdads poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of crawdads poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: crawdads, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Where Rare Birds Sing
Golden rays filter through rustling red leaves
Oscillating fall colors to rhythms of evening
Amid sounds exotic as animals roam freely
Deep into wilderness, where rare birds sing,
Where...

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Categories: crawdads, autumn, nature,
Form: Verse
A Leash-Led Life
Down through the thicket,
Over and across the forest bend,
A tail sways, as the wind lifts leaves
of red and yellow.

Aside a pond kissed with moss,
we take...

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Categories: crawdads, animal, autumn, dog, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Coloring Book
We loaded up for a Sunday drive
The Ozark Mountains were alive
Wild dogwoods of pink and white
Every shade of green in sight
Blooming jonquils and daffodils
Woodpeckers, blue...

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Categories: crawdads, appreciation, daffodils, family, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Woods
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deep in the woodlands
surrounded by pine and birch
live deer; buck and doe
~
where creeks trickle soft
bedded with stones and sand, frogs
and crawdads exist 
~
under moss and...

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Categories: crawdads, animal, inspiration, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member When I Was a Mere Lad of Ten
I was a mere lad of ten living on a prairie farm in Hoosier land,
Roaming the fields in my old straw hat, barefoot, carefree and...

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Categories: crawdads, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Green Horse Trough
Hot sun on my back, leaning over the horse trough,
scrubbing the green slim off the sides.
The edge burns my hands and arms as I look...

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Categories: crawdads, adventure, life, nostalgia, water,
Form: Free verse
The Lady Flies From the Ocean To Return a River
In her slippery salmon swim
    And red streaked Crawdads chute
    Into her eddying pools
    To stare...

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Categories: crawdads, beach, beautiful, beauty, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Low Country Boil
take some shrimp, crabs, crawdads, clams
and corn on the cob
a lobster and smoke saugage
and boil it for me
spread on a table
say it's done
yes!...

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Categories: crawdads, food
Form: Epulaeryu
Crawfishing
Lived in Tyler when I was ten
And not too far from my home
Was a creek in an open field
I often played there alone

The creek was...

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Categories: crawdads, nature, me,
Form: Quatrain
The Low Country Boil
take some shrimp, and crabs
and corn on the cob
add smoke saugage, crawdads 
and maybe a lobster and clams
boil it till the ingrediants 
turn bright orange...

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Categories: crawdads, foodurdu,
Form: Ghazal
' the Wolf and the Fox ... '
A Wolf and A Fox 
Roamed A Southern Wood
Most Folks, Who Caught A Glimpse
Said, ‘They’s Up To No Good ! ‘ …

But, Few Brave Enough...

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Categories: crawdads, adventure, allegory, animals, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse
Hillbilly Language
I've just come to realize 
Probably some of you don't know
How to speak the hillbilly language
So, I'll show you how to give it a go

We...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crawdads, funny
Form: Rhyme
Wild Child
Wild child, , she ran free
barefoot imagination
soul born in the country
full of life,  fascination

She was a wild mustang,
rearing, racing over hills 
 heart was...

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Categories: crawdads, childhood, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Crawdad Pie
A barefoot boy on an old dirt road
Kicking dust up as he went
His lips all puckered, whistling a tune
He was happy and content 

He carried...

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Categories: crawdads, childhood,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs