Hook, Line And Sinker
Broad in the beam
not much of a looker
this crusty rust-bucket
of nuts screws and bolts
is a crabby old hooker
as luck would have it
dolled up trolling for supper
at any port in a storm
she still gives good service
tho' down on her uppers
now showing her years
deep in the scuppers
yet still on the game
fishing by night for a living
not to
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Categories:
hook up with, boat, fishing, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Fishing
down went the bobber
set the hook and don’t panic
reel it in ~ fish fry!
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Categories:
hook up with, boat, fish, fishing, fun,
Form: Senryu
Hook in
Do you like small church?
I do
Sing the old hymns in the book
Congregate with a small group of people
Everyone knows your name
I found I like that
For a longest time I did not go to church
after my pastor died
I just felt like I hadn’t found a church yet
until a co-worker told me about a dinner
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Categories:
hook up with, community, faith, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Sandy Hook
Tell the Moms it didn't happen
Tell the Dads it isn't so
Pretty little roses blooming
In the garden – row on row –
Pretty little blossoms folding
Petals falling to the floor
Falling into angels rising
Sprouting wings on which to soar
Smite the gunman at the trigger!
Seize the madman at the gun!
Little
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Categories:
hook up with, children, death, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
hook up with, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fish In The Hook
There's fish in the hook
It's there almost seven hours
It's still alive.
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Categories:
hook up with, adventure, engagement, fish, motivation,
Form: Haiku
Peter Pan Lost to the Captain's Hook
I remember that I once called him Peter Pan
The man I loved, and yet a child at heart to me
A name that became vividly more portending
at pretending than I ever could've imagined.
A lost boy I found long ago, or did he find me?
No need for Tinkerbelle's pixie dust because
he flew with me as his Darling,*
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Categories:
hook up with, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Hook Line and Sinker
If you give a man a fish he will eat for a day.
If you teach a man to fish his wife will soon leave him.
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Categories:
hook up with, fishing, humor, marriage,
Form: Monoku
Dream of Captain Hook
in Captain Hook's dream
Peter Pan is forever gone
Smead has a fantastic brain
Hook is revered
His crew would never mutiny
and his enemies have all walked the plank
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Categories:
hook up with, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Bait On the Hook
In waters deep, temptation lies,
The bait on the hook, a fish's demise.
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Categories:
hook up with, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
hook up with, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Off the Hook
My dreams are often troubled by useless things.
A land-line clicks on and off repeatedly
the dreamless are phoning me.
long disused.
I found a kitten in the cold winter woods
it died while I drove it to the shelter.
My intervention was just another path
to its end.
I want an old record turntable,
I miss the revolutions,
how the 33rpm vinyl slow-spins,
how you
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Categories:
hook up with, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hook, Line and Sinker
hook, line and sinker;
drowned in your seductive eyes.
with effortless ease,
you entrap me in your web.
a spider with wicked charms.
Date written: 04/05/2023
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Categories:
hook up with, deep, poetry, sensual,
Form: Tanka
Fish and Hook
I've gone out to the waters
Many times ever since I hit sixteen
I went out hoping to get fish
And in this few years, I've had good catches
With my small hook I've been able to trap big fish
Fishes only thought to be in the deep sea
A surprise cause I only wade shallow waters
Where my dangling feet
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Categories:
hook up with, beautiful, beauty, cute love,
Form: Free verse
A Land Without a Single Crook
A land without a single crook,
Because criminals they don't brook:
They'd out fish them with a hook
Relying in their roguish look...
A District without a Half Crook
Battered eyes to one make a spook
And as unpleasant as damned gooks...
The criminal, without fail, cooks
First claiming that he lives took
Then, high time petty that you forsook
No one has got wings
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Categories:
hook up with, change, conflict, evil, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
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