Best Sandbar Poems

I dwell on this sandbar. 
Between the shallows and the deep.
So free and yet so oppressed.
But during the rarest of moments
I truly know that I am blessed.

Do I make for the mainland.
Facing riptides of salt and teeth.
Or wade through sharpened coral hearts.
onto that cay of...

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Been months since I've been fishin', underneath the starry skies,  
Been months since I've been fishin', underneath the starry skies,  
Next week I'll go for stripers, with me I'll bring some pie.

I fish into the ocean, through all the crashing waves,  
I...

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In the hot A-Ga-Ming night
My wife and I skip the July 4th fireworks
At the sandbar down south on long Torch Lake

Start our own shoreline fire

Count the red electrified dorsal fins
Of the motorboat salmon swimming upstream
Migrating home from the explosions in the sky

20, 50, 80 a...

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