Muskrats Attitude Makes Us Happy
...Miss Maddie Muskrat mastered Missouri mud
Reveling and rolling in it in a joyful way
Catfish groused that she was mucking up the river
Bass, bluegill and crappie told catfish off
Muskrat makes ...
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Categories:
crappie, animal,
Form: Free verse
Sean and Chuck
...My feet are stuck in the muck, cried Chuck the duck.
Sean the swan came to his rescue across the lawn,
Chuck, grab my wing, and we’ll swing into the spring!
Chuck used his beak, as chic feathers t...
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Categories:
crappie, friendship, fun, nursery rhyme,
Form: Alliteration
Torch Lake Vii - Local Intruders
...My boy and I hung over the Elk Rapids dam railing
Shirtless
With lines swung in the churning water
The iron hum of turbines rattling through our elbows
He lands a nice Crappie
And as he resc...
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Categories:
crappie, dad, fishing, friendship, humor,
Form: Free verse
Memories At the Lake
...Moving to Lake Shore sites was definitely cool
Our home was so large and faced the water
Cameron fixed up an old boat
We held hands on the dock
He taught me how to cast a line and bait a hook
He...
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Categories:
crappie, fishing, granddaughter, memory, summer,
Form: Rhyme
My Favorite Fisherman
...I was remembering my father,
just the other day.
It’s been a lotta years,
since Daddy passed away.
My name is not important.
My fathers name was Jim.
He never called me by my name!
I was alw...
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Categories:
crappie, father, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Coping With Poo
...COPING WITH POO!
Two young boys left in charge of a baby,
A recipe for disaster that’s no maybe,
Take baby to the local fair,
Without a care, they did dare,
Head for the whip, put baby on ...
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Categories:
crappie, baby, funny,
Form: Couplet
Oklahoma Clay
...Most evenings, right around supper,
when the sky was streaked red
right before dark, the old man
would talk of Oklahoma-
the first time he hunted squirrel,
down by Coal Creek, and how
you cou...
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Categories:
crappie, family, imagery, life, loss,
Form: Narrative
My Crazy Mind
...she is so crazy,
sometimes lazy,
also naughty,
and many a time knotty
she laughs when someone's sad.
I get embarrassed and go mad,
and tackle the situation by saying"laughter,
the best medic...
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Categories:
crappie, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Killifish
...I've got a dish of killifish
I wish to eat that silly fish
Baked, or fried in peanut oil
Roasted, dried, or let to boil.
Make me a star-gazy pie
Take me to the Catfish Fry
Lead me to the Chin...
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Categories:
crappie, animal, fish, fishing, food,
Form: Rhyme
A Bum Fisherman
...A BUM FISHERMAN
A fisherman’s wife waiting for her man.
The slight finger she lifts, for waving fan.
Grilled bass and crappie,
a cure for flappy?
The bum’s been devising a diet plan.
3/14/2...
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Categories:
crappie, humor,
Form: Limerick
A Pleasant Reverie
...It is morn in the countryside late in the spring,
and the lake is so placid and birds they all sing.
All the flowers in bloom and the air is so clean;
not a day that’s so lovely has ever been seen...
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Categories:
crappie, dream, fishing, nature,
Form: Rhyme
A Facility For the Poor and Demented
...Fred visits Bill every month at
the facility he’s been in for years.
Age and booze brought Bill there.
He's still strapped to his bed
so he can't go wandering again
when he gets a taste for a...
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Categories:
crappie, mental illness,
Form: Blank verse
Windbound On Wassaksina - Expanded
...I cannot lie, I’m not that spry
still angling is my game
but never had luck with walleye
pickerel by Ontario's name.
We're windbound on Wasaksina
waiting for the west wind to wane
We're win...
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Categories:
crappie, fish, , western,
Form: Quatrain
When I Was a Mere Lad of Ten
...I was a mere lad of ten living on a prairie farm in Hoosier land,
Roaming the fields in my old straw hat, barefoot, carefree and tanned.
My faithful dog, Spooks, was always with me chasing rabbits,...
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Categories:
crappie, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Animal Footles
...A COLD MALE GOAT
Chilly
Billy
SQUIRREL RUNNING IN CIRCLES
Whirly
Squirrely
ANGRY MILK COWS
Scary
Dairy
DOG WAKING FROM A NAP
Groggy
Doggy
HAPPY KITTY
Sanguine
Feline
SHORT T...
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Categories:
crappie, animal, fun,
Form: Footle
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