Best Waders Poems
Alliteration River Run
...Wanton Willows weave athwart the weir
Wishing all the while wilful to wind
Their winsome wands that whelm and win
The restive writhing watery way
Meandering in moonlit mazy motion
Then moving......
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Categories:
waders, nature,
Form:
Alliteration
Whispers At Daybreak
...Such tender whispers waft on salty air
On foggy mornings waves are brushed in gray
I hear you then as winds caress my hair
Your murmur’s soft, but I know what you say
The day will soon come whe......
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Categories:
waders, husband, lost love, sea,
Form:
Sonnet
I Almost Pooed My Pants
...With my fishing vest and waders, and a found long wooden staff
I walked along the jetty, on a rock-piled curvy path
The day had grown to darkness, with no light there to be found
When something......
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Categories:
waders, fishing,
Form:
Rhyme
Salmon Sunset
...Salmon pink horizon beguiles as I towel dry
Upon a muted canvas morphs hues at sunset.
The lake decants of its waders and pontoons.
Mirrored waters tranquil—a soothing elixir.
Tidy up and make ......
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Categories:
waders, remember, summer,
Form:
Free verse
River's End
...At the foot of the Elbow,
just above the Bow,
an angler drowned
his feet caught
in a shopping cart
split-cane rod still
firmly in his grasp.
On the Grand
just below the Gorge,
another di......
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Categories:
waders, death, fishing,
Form:
Free verse
Salvage
...
"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
......
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Categories:
waders, muse, paradise, poets,
Form:
Romanticism
Natures Nest
...How beautiful the sounds, sights of nature
In the distance alarm call of a cuckoo,
beautiful sound of summer Tanager
Blackbirds hopping around getting in a stew,
Acrobatics of swallows, s......
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Categories:
waders, appreciation, bird, nature, sound,
Form:
Rhyme
Quahog
...Quahog burrows deep in mud …
By bubbles it’s betrayed …
“We’re gonna have a clam-bake!
Bring your waders and a spade!”
A quahog is a large and very tasty type of clam, native to the Ne......
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Categories:
waders, animals, children, funny
Form:
Epigram
A Short Story of My Nde, In Story Form Pt 1
...In the 80's I lived in Anchorage Alaska. You could go anywhere and catch salmon till your arms fell off. I would drive for hours to fish in completely desolate (of people) lakes. There were several l......
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Categories:
waders, nostalgia, water, fish, me,
Form:
Narrative
A Haiku Anthology
...life without love
was how nature planned it
instinct was the way
instinct was the way
was how nature planned it
life without love
symbiosis
when two become partners
instinctive fo......
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Categories:
waders, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Heads Down, Engaged To Screen, Remote
...Tanka
Folk Heads Down in Flocks
waders stoop heads down
feeding uncoupled in flock.
like texters bowing
heads down to worship screen folk
disengaged with here and now
He......
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Categories:
waders, internet, social,
Form:
Free verse
Parody Song For Lute and Harp
...Parody Song for Lute and Harp
The cobbler who mended the princess´s shoes
Fell in love with her feet and declared his love.
But the princess was quite chocked, said…no.
Sad cobbler sat in hi......
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Categories:
waders, funny, love, passion, love,
Form:
Burlesque
2
...A back flipping coconut is very very amusing at a ball but ball pits are moving around so one must surely wear wellingtons or a pair of anglers' waders when jumping across such multicoloured curves. ......
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Categories:
waders, baseball, basketball, bible, bird,
Form:
The Typing Teddy Bears
...Typing teddies talk. Their furry hands have great speeds over keys. Perfectly adjusted to any form of typewriter, word processor, laptop and keyboards, or the modern computer touch screens. They work......
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Categories:
waders, beach, beautiful, beauty,
Form:
Beachcomber
...A
twitter
of waders
amidst tidal
wrack
haunts
the strand-
a turnstone
uncovers a
shrimp......
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Categories:
waders, holiday, sea,
Form:
Pastoral