Best Stringers Poems

They stand in cottonfields of snowy white
The faded, black and white of my grandparents..
Smiling as though everything were alright.
Cotton sacks hung low down to the ground,
As the depression came calling,
Twas the way of life...

Those first thick, blury, color pictures of mom and dad
From those old...

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FISH FRY
Flip and Flo and Nick and Buck
went down the road to try their luck
afishin' in their fav'rite spot,
with wiggle worms that Buck had bought.

Nick was quick to hook his worm,
Flip got sick to see them squirm,
Flo was giggling so bad
Flip and Buck got really...

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Where morning is new
And so is its grace,
Oh my lover! Let's go to that place,

Where people are strangers,
And so are we,
Where no one asks our happiness,
Nor care for our grieve,

Where neither priests preach,
Nor kazis do teach,  
Where neither mosques make noise,
Nor temples show-off pride,

Where...

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Way back in the nineteen thirties, 
they where mighty hard to beat.
The Hockey team from Alkali Lake,
Who would not accept defeat.   

You know there wasn't very many of them ,
so they could not often change their line,
The other teams had about twenty guys,
Alkali...

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It's been way too long since my last lay
With a blue skirt girl on the westward bay
I couldn't delay my sport and had to pay
For the tinkers under the sun's last ray.

Her hands were crafty in the glancing gloam
And we finished before the plunging night...

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