Bobbers Poems

Premium MemberFishing Bond with my Son

...By the shores of the lakes unexpected bonding
over fishing, my son and I put our hearts and 
soul’s right, while feeling solace in the nights. 

As my son gravitated to the love of fishing
I joi...
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Categories: bobbers, emotions, fishing, forgiveness, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBobbing for Planets

...Dip 'em in caramelized honey or gummies
Without it, they taste kinda funny and runny
A Carnivale only for bobblehead gods
A barrel of laughs for the rest of us clods
That are blubbering bobbling ...
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Categories: bobbers, humor,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberPerusing the Tea

...Perusing the tea, what it brings, vitality, refreshing, or tranquility.

tea’s altruistic -
the elixir gives itself
to succor ailments

I warm leaves up when my hands and feet are icy cold. The...
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Categories: bobbers, drink,
Form: Haibun

Mural

...Once almost a little village
Within the city’s bounds,
Huddled around the fish dock
With its own smells and sounds,
Streets of rows of terraces
All well kept and neat,
Pride shining through
Ev...
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Categories: bobbers, betrayal, community, fishing, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Fish Stories

...I caught a giant bass today
Except I really didn't
So large it was it broke my line
You really should have seen it

But as far as telling stories goes
It's the best outcome of all
Escape'd bas...
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Categories: bobbers, fish, fishing,
Form: Rhyme


In the Lord Line Building

...There's a feeling of sadness
Mixed with a wistful awe
As we pick our careful way
Across a rubble strewn floor.
An eerie sort of half light,
As though hiding from the day,
Hiding our history unt...
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Categories: bobbers, change, fishing, memory, remember,
Form: Rhyme

To Those Bell Bottomed Boys

...Are there ghosts on Hessle Road
Do the bell bottomed boys
Slide quietly into Rayners
For the pint, the craic, the noise.
Do their pockets still jingle
Until, having spent it all
It's again thro...
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Categories: bobbers, change, courage, eulogy, fishing,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFrom Lures To Glocks

...I come from a family of fishermen
Mitchel 300 open faced reels
size 6 hooks 10Lb monofilament line
colorful bobbers and lures-
Dreaming of Big mouth bass 
and golden flanked Muskie.
We casted o...
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Categories: bobbers, nostalgia, violence, war,
Form: Free verse

Where the Woods Open

...There's a path I always take
down to the river where the woods
are dressed down open
The light of the sky
doesn't shine in your eyes
but leads the way to redemption
 
I like to stand there for...
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Categories: bobbers, autumn, imagery, inspirational, lonely,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOpalescent Rainbow Bass

...Opalescent rainbow bass, slippery catfish large, 
green banks of rivers, beyond the rich man's barge.
Guppies gallows, fishmonger agleam, 
going fishing, Saturday. Catch me downstream.

Opalesce...
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Categories: bobbers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Not Quite a Diebhidhe

...the pools of your eyes are calm
my fishing pole sticks out straight
something nibbles my bobbers...
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Categories: bobbers, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberEndless, Lazy Summer's Day

...Ducks line up behind Mommy
  swimming all in a perfect row

Kids build sand castles
  precariously balanced, just so

Red-and-white bobbers bob up and down
  to the rhythm of fishermen's strin...
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Categories: bobbers, beach, fun, summer, war,
Form: Rhyme

Honoring You In Living Color

...Kitchen counters alive; the vivid colors of red, green, purple and yellow glass jars. Your garden flourished.
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Pickled beets mingle boiled eggs; a pretty periwinkle purple.
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Yellow and ...
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Categories: bobbers, mom, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDeely

...My girl Ellie came from Philly
She loves chili from the deli
Such a Silly Sally
Saw her dilly-dally
For a million hours
Smelling gillyflowers
Under hilly towers.

My pop Billy Banker
Was a w...
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Categories: bobbers, food, humor, life, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

A Fun Collaboration With Edward Mccall

...My sweetest princess, I would never lie to you (except for when it keeps me out of trouble).

"As for my financial state, I am far wealthier than my magazine publishing family "McCalls". (no relati...
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Categories: bobbers, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: I do not know?

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