Noodlin'
...With the hot summer sun beating down,
leaving blisters on our necks and back.
Walking through those swift murky currents,
just you‘n me, and a gunny sack.
Dipping our heads below the surface,
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Categories:
flathead, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Watching From a Skiff On the Ohio River
...Herons fragment the mist,
appear and disappear while remaining motionless.
The skiff rocks as a coal barge trundles past.
A dewy sky shivers.
Nowadays he just sits in a boat looking at Ohio.
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Categories:
flathead, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I'M Talking 'Bout Stingers
...I guess I’m more accustomed to the modern sting these days;
the one that comes by e-mail or the phone.
They might hurt the pocket with the modern scamming ways -
but Mother Nature’s stings bite to...
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Categories:
flathead, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Catfish Tales
...It was me and my uncle Buster
having dinner at Pearl's Lunchenette.
The sun was as high
as merange on the pie,
'twas a day that I shant soon forget.
Across from us sat old man Dauber,
addressin...
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Categories:
flathead, funny, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
Out Cast
.... …Yes sweet Carol Brown
the out cast drives himself away...
never a thought for another way...
selfishness hast cast the rod ..
suggesting he is more than god...
come uppance he must pay...
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Categories:
flathead, adventuresweet, sweet,
Form: Rhyme
Nit Picks and Picnics
...~~Upon the banks of big piney slough,
I recall a picnic with old blue,
and my granddaughter at age two.
and many blood sucking critters too.
~For a very short while we did picnic,
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Categories:
flathead, funnydog, dog, granddaughter,
Form: Monorhyme
A Flathead -Aussie-Talk
...A flathead once carried in his tuckerbag a grinder
So hungry he sat at a fair dinkum binder
But he won't trust his eyes
When a fellow donkey arrives
To eat up all the remainder
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Categories:
flathead, confusion
Form: Limerick
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:
flathead, adventure, childhood, devotion, children,
Form: ABC