Best Huck Poems

I’m Huck, and my last name is Finn.
On the great Mississippi I’ve been
playing hooky from school
‘cause there ain’t any rule
that can keep Huckleberry caged in.

I...

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One who actually knows God's Word and then chooses to follow
To many this may appear absurd as they themselves are hollow
Those who pray are often...

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How Poetry Began, such plots you tell!
A Tale Of Fire And Ice you wrote so well
Poor Peter Pumpkin bid a sad adieu
Pink Cherry Blossoms was...

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Old hillbilly Huck was no prude;
He picknicked outside in the nude.
But a bee left a sting
On his ding-a-ling-ling
And neighbours heard something quite rude!



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What is it about dogs that make us love them so
I suspect a life without them is not the full show

Dogs are there for us,...

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Happy Heat

I had no Huck Finn
sort of existence except
for summertimes
at the lake.  

Walking the state road,
tar melting like licorice
as I worked it with my...

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Watching Homer struggle
to explain how a god wounded by a mortal
cannot die but may thereafter live with minor pain

and the humor when that god
complains to...

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Our lives and our time
Fired useless
Into the air
Toy cap gun shots
Those winter palaces unstormed
No tax offices ransacked
Where is utopia I asked
And no-one knew
They looked at...

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It’s now just an old run down structure 
With broken window panes and all 
With hinges rusting away with time 
And cold air rushing down...

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while figuratively hunting
and pecking around me noggin
force hum theme to write about
lo and behold, the solution
stared me right in front
of my little knob nub nose...

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Urban asphalt trail 

becomes home's huck-pickin' slope. 

Blackberries are ripe!...

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The glory of America, now heats up 
   with agitation poised to strike on the brink 
sans legislation incites humiliation, 
  ...

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The sidewalk menu listed
All the specials of the day,
Inviting every passerby
With time and means to pay.

But one such item on the list
Elicited a grin
And made...

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"Stepping Stones "

From the mind of a veteran
many demons flow... Not mine specifically. I only flirt with  dark places. Like poltergeist and Carol Anne,...

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The glory of America, now heats up 
   with agitation poised to strike on the brink 
sans legislation incites humiliation, 
  ...

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