Lyric Fishing Poems

Well, my bosses up above me
are always pushing, trying to shove me
into doing twice the work for only half the pay

When 5 o’clock finally comes
and...

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So relaxed, it makes me nervous
Your dutiful, unbridled service
You, traveling in a gypsy's circus
Of course, it all makes sense

We put up tents and take down...

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 Husband, Did You Bring My Flies?
By Miracle Man
3/2/2021 2:30 AM

Floating down an Arkansas stream
to catch walleye or trout.
The flies she thought she’d brought along,
she...

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One fine day I was fishing at sea
Two big blue whales swam up by me
They flicked their tails sent up a spray
All I could do...

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Safe Harbor
by Michael R. Burch

for Kevin N. Roberts

The sea at night seems
an alembic of dreams—
the moans of the gulls,
the foghorns’ bawlings.

A century late
to be melancholy,
I...

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If it smells good and tastes good, I will be munching
Eating is not about caloric number crunching
My taste bud is the judge and not the...

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That girl keeps saying ‘no’	
Each time I ask her out.
She gives no reason why,	
Just turns and shuts me out.
I’m pretty sure she’s straight,	
Not on the...

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Ah Such A Great Night... 
To Fish In The Cyber Sea

Always does this generic guy abhor
inflicting pain and suffering,
     hence I...

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Island girl
I've got my eyes on you
Loving the way you move
So smooth
Longing for you hand
My song
Take me to your wonderland
Come on
Cause together, island girl
Just us...

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Hands folded prayer like to beseech thee 
   to abduct me with no cause to up braid
natural temptation found temptation commanding 
 ...

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Wind is swinging boat, it’s frail
on a shoulder of a wave,
Stranger’s bored in it, thoughts sail
full of laziness, they save
idleness, he wants no sailing
And he...

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Give  them  clear    mountain   lakes,   	
Kid-friendly  swimming  holes,	
Rafts,  canoes,  and  sailboats;...

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Fourteen Catfish
Fourteen catfish swimin along
one was caught cause he went wrong
thriteen catfish swimin all night
two got hooked before daylight
eleven catfish in the brook
seven fell for...

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Crystal clear serpentine waters

gurgle, gushing over small rocks.

A fly rides the turbulent surf

as I wade hip deep rod in hand.
 
And I feel the river’s...

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Hyman

When speaking in hymns
Our thoughts Aline 
To the events of time
Forming it's own, in ryhme

Like a serenade upon boats
Around a pond of souls
Fishing in the...

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