Best Hauled Poems
Bunyip Forest Revisited
...Along the road called forestry, the silver ash weeps over me
as I meander 'round the dell and glade.
Pass scars of sand pits long disused, where gullies, washes speak ‘abused!’
Reclamation offers ......
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Categories:
hauled, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Fishermans Brush With Death - Sea Shanty
...One fine day I was fishing at sea
Two big blue whales swam up by me
They flicked their tails sent up a spray
All I could do was watch and pray
They kept flicking and sank my boat
I'm now i......
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Categories:
hauled, boat, fishing, water,
Form:
Lyric
Poetry Keeps a Day
...Poetry will not keep you warm
Not like a cat nestled between legs
But, it hunts down manic thoughts
Gnashes the static till the mind gives
Chases a thought till claws are bloody
Keeps you drenc......
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Categories:
hauled, depression, desire, missing you,
Form:
Free verse
Every Remaining Last God
...Covered by cloud the out-of-sight tops of soaring towers,
Buckling under their own weight, beginning to topple from
Those airy heights;
The gaping breach - the once impregnable outer wall!
The i......
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Categories:
hauled, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
All Hat and No Cattle
...They hung around the beer joint with the finest Western wear
with thumbs tucked in their belt loops and such a studly air.
But those boots weren't made for stirrups and were polished to a sheen,
a......
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Categories:
hauled, humorous, old, time, ,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
A Lifetime of Cars
...I did not learn to drive until my twenties.
My two poor kids I hauled inside a wagon!
That wagon creaked when filled with groceries!
Fed up, I said, “My kids I won’t be draggin’!”
I got my lic......
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Categories:
hauled, car,
Form:
Quatrain
Kate and Isobel
...*There are only two damsels in this tale; all variations were simply for ease of writing.
Once Kate and Isabella went
To see the pretty fields of Gwent
And traipse through forest shade
They packed a......
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Categories:
hauled, character, friend, girl, hero,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Tears From the Swamp
...Author: Joseph Osita
From the swamp
Haunts me the tears of my blood
Stripped of all hope-the soil to shelter
And banished to swim in oil-poisoned sea
Do they know
Ghost of revenge haunts the weeping......
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Categories:
hauled, death, depression, sympathy, people,
Form:
Free verse
Sheila's Silk Knickers
...Here’s a bold tale it will have you in titters
It’s about poor Sheila who lost her knickers
She went for a cruise upon the great ocean
Fell in the water with the boats sudden motion.
She sw......
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Categories:
hauled, boat, funny, girl, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
Wonderful Worthing Promenade Part 1
...Five miles of neatly spaced suckered palm planted
Bustling promenade,
Not withstanding a provincial cafe-culture
Of restaurants and exciting little bars,
Enhance upon regal elegance of the cram......
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Categories:
hauled, sea, , Lullaby,
Form:
Rhyme
What Shall We Do
...It was out in Venezuela when I ran into this sailor
He was sitting at the bar, right next to me
He was rugged he was mean and he wasn’t very clean
But I listened when he spoke about the sea
Th......
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Categories:
hauled, adventure, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Sleepwalking
...I was sleepwalking down the street, when I stumbled over a stool
standing there. "Watch your feet", the stool yelled, offended. "I am
sorry, but I am sleepwalking, so I can't watch my feet. In fact......
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Categories:
hauled, funny, silly, sleep,
Form:
Narrative
Buckle Up, Baby
...VAROOOM!! Listen to my honey purr.
Better to me than being wrapped in fur.
Come take a look at my 77' Corvette,
worth every penny tho' now I'm in debt.
She sits on a very sturdy C-2 chassis.
I......
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Categories:
hauled, beauty, boyfriend, car, ,
Form:
Rhyme
Animal Antics
...A tall giraffe at our local zoo
Got neck ache, (as giraffes often do)
With his neck being so long
The pain was terribly strong
That he couldn’t reach the leaves to chew
The gir......
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Categories:
hauled, animal, fantasy, fun, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Hostile Head Takeover Part 2
...A din ensued
my imaginary brood
with a good dose of misapprehension
hauled out their toys
and with a deafening noise
held band practice to demand my attention
My head resounded
I was astounded
as m......
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Categories:
hauled, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme