Tradin’ Coon Hounds
Heard my dad mutter, a hundred greenbacks,
you trying to give me a heart attack.
For that much money, truth be told,
that dog of yours had better crap gold.
Then dad hemmed and hawed,
grumbled and guffawed,
Wiped his lips and said with a smile,
“Just let me chew on it for a while.”
Pretty soon dad stood and said,
how about
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Categories:
coon, father,
Form: Rhyme
MY BLOODY VALENTINE
[Written for contest ‘MY BLOODY VALENTINE’ sponsored by Sara Jama : placed 5th]
MY BLOODY VALENTINE
This villain on a coin
this shadow on a sea
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Categories:
coon, 12th grade, feelings, for
Form: Rhyme
Bandits From the Woods Nursery Rhyme
Always together, they played
Never alone, lost or afraid,
They trudged through the woods
And all the surrounding neighborhoods,
Piercing the darkness with shiny flames,
Their eyes never revealing their names.
Always together, they delighted
In the games – wonderfully excited,
They plodded on through the night
Beneath stars and moon so bright
Carefully seeking the best garbage cans,
With paws that were suitable for hands
Always
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Categories:
coon, animal, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
coon, animal, cat,
Form: Haiku
Maine Coon
For my sister, Sami, because this morning one of our four Maine Coons suddenly and unexpectedly died...
Haughty snobbish tomcat
tap water trample cat
never inside brat
inferiority complexity
acrobat
My Maine man
My Coon, I didn't expect
you'd go so soon
***
June 3, 2017
Copyright © Darren White
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Categories:
coon, animal, cat, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
coon, faith,
Form: Free verse
Coon Eyes Potato Stew
Coon Eyes Potato Stew
Will you remember this day she said
Then he spoke first words out his head
Coon Eyes Potato Stew
30 plus years, words tried and true
Coon eyes are for my big brown eyes
One into each others keeps us tied
Potato stew is what my mom cooked that night
30 plus years today, this poem I write
Words spoken
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Categories:
coon, love, romantic, words,
Form: Rhyme
Forgetting the Coon
God
was with the squirrel,
made it a golden path
the perfect zig and zag,
a whisper to stop-
a whisper to go-
a shout to sprint-
for the glory hole-
God
was with the squirrel,
but forgot about the coon-
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Categories:
coon, animals, death, religion,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
coon, funny
Form: Etheree
Coon Season
Your gun was as a beam of light
in the house; it split the haze
of smoke and childhood,
scored the jaw of the ceiling
into its rows of endless caries
festered with the slightest grains of sugary hope
The dogs bawled a chorus
while you waved it like Hollreiser.
I croaked cockatoo quips against
the yodeling air turbid with
instinct and
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Categories:
coon, father, introspection, nostalgia,
Form: Bio