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Flathead Poems - Poems about Flathead


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. T......

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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



Premium Member 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

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