Old Swimming Hole
...Was a swimming hole down south
where the bullheads chewed your feet,
Though there's no need to worry
if you didn't go too deep.
There were no steps to exit,
just a mud wall you mu...
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Categories:
bullheads, high school, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Ash Wednesday
...Ashes,
Black, gritty, sooty signs
Painted on the foreheads
Of humanity parading about.
My thumb would be black
For several days following
The signing of so many foreheads,
The dark soot engrai...
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Categories:
bullheads, religious,
Form: Free verse
Psychic Raven
...The Psychic Raven
(Inspired from E.A.
Poe- The Raven)
The red hawk stares across the prairie wide
The eagle glides over all that he is lord
A lonesome vulture sails above a mountainside
And the psyc...
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Categories:
bullheads, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
An Hour At the Beach
...Driftwood benches stretch along the shoreline as far as the eye can see
While purple and green kelp stain the wet sand like messy
brush strokes a child would make
Amongst the rocks and ti...
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Categories:
bullheads, faith, imagination, introspection, nature,
Form: Rhyme
River Fishing
...RIVER FISHING
After school my friend and I would walk through town to the river
Soon to bait our trout lines with cotton cake, crawdads and liver.
Sometimes we used baby bullheads, perch or gr...
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Categories:
bullheads, adventure, childhood, devotion, children,
Form: ABC