Long Varmints Poems
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Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Recluse by dint of circumstance
Proud anonymous troglodytes
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.
He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark...
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Categories:
varmints, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form:
Free verse
Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shadow of a doubt. Aforementioned site chosen for...
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Categories:
varmints, adventure, animal, anniversary, birth, february, immigration, places,
Form:
Rhyme
There Was Trouble Brewin' In Soup Creek
As morning glowed pale light over the town of Soup Creek,
Jenna woke with a start when she heard a floorboard squeak.
She raised her gun and took aim at a shadow near the door,
"Hold it right...
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Categories:
varmints, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Hitchhiker From Another World Part 3
Just as well I was driving at a moderate speed.
Having resumed control I spied Lelia sticking her tongue out at those reckless varmints.
She stopped the minute I noticed.
Odd.
“Children …….sometimes you have to act like a...
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Categories:
varmints, art, august, beautiful, beauty, character, creation, deep,
Form:
Prose
The Prairie Dialed 9-Eleven
By day you work the fence, you’re out stretching the wire.
By night you read of Grace and stare into the fire.
Come morning you fix a breakfast to last you all day.
Come evening your supper is...
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Categories:
varmints, cowboy-westerntime, fire, fire, freedom, morning, time,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Heretic condemned to burn at stake
reprieve eleventh hour granted clemency
commuted death penalty
criminal sentenced solitary isolation
rat infested dungeon ultimate punishment
doled out after protracted proceedings
courtesy amazing graceful puffed dragon
unwittingly delivered merciful respite.
Cowled ascetic busied himself
exotic gaseous/ liquified...
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Categories:
varmints, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, betrayal, earth,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Heritage
The ranch on which I hang my hat, though short on most the frills,
Is thirteen sections, give or take, of rugged trails an’ hills.
We call it ‘home’, our little world, our very own frontier,
Amongst the...
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Categories:
varmints, adventure, cowboy-western, education, imagination, inspirational, native american,
Form:
Quatrain
Six Men Dead - Part 1
© 2011 (by Jim Sularz)
(The true story of Frank Eaton – AKA “Pistol Pete”)
At the headwaters of the Red Woods Branch,
near a gentle slope on a dusty trail.
On an iron gate, at the Twin Mounds...
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Categories:
varmints, history,
Form:
Ballad
How Do Children Sleep At Night
It's a wonder young children still turn out all right
With the stuff that gets crammed in their heads every night.
Things like visions of sugar plum fairies and sprites,
Or a thousand tales of Arabian delights,
A frog...
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Categories:
varmints, children, humor, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance First Cell
He/him (ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark recesses of hermitage
averse to cavort, frolic, inure himself
into the duplicitous schemes
capitalized, glorified, popularized
courtesy vanity of Homo sapiens
lest imp of the pervert
already sacrificed...
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Categories:
varmints, age, analogy, animal, appreciation, bible, character, courage,
Form:
Free verse
A Bounteous Harvest
(my acknowledgement
to the loose canon of Robert Frost)
An above average snowfall
heavily swathed sage heather
followed by substantial unusual rainfall
punctuated months before, during and
after the growing season
delivered one of the
most hearty crop yields
in living memory...
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Categories:
varmints, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Elegy
The Granny Abduction
Here's a story my grandma told
When I was just a kid
She said she was abducted by aliens
And this is what she did
She said while she was sleeping
She was awakened by a big blue light
She was...
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Categories:
varmints, funnyme,
Form:
Rhyme
All An Illusion
All an illusion
It's all an illusion.
No matter where I am, I am alway just,
sitting there. Unaware, with a blank stare messy hair
and probably the same clothes that I always wear.
Wrangler jeans, and a button...
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Categories:
varmints, education, funny, humor,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
In My Garden
Well! Hello, friend! I’m begging your pardon!
Would you like to sit for a while?
And whatever you see, you are welcome to free,
There is sun tea; day’s forecast is likely a smile.
There are several raised beds...
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Categories:
varmints, love,
Form:
Quatrain
'tis Apple Pickin' Time Again
The autumn winds are rattlin' the leaves of corn stalks in the fields.
The corn has been harvested and the farmers are calculatin' their yields.
Golden, yellow and crimson leaves are strewn along the country lane.
Autumn! ...
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Categories:
varmints, autumn, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Destructive Hands of Time
The old Spanish mission had fallen down from neglect.
Where it once taught of a different way, and housed anyone from the noble to
the derelict.
Now it houses only varmints and things...
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Categories:
varmints, history, imagination, life, nostalgia, old, water, old,
Form:
Narrative
Ted
um,
certainly for those of us who think that
there are millions of “ted’s” out there,
brandishing their guns in the wilderness
shooting off rounds like it was going out of fashion &
yakkety yakking to their buddies
about...
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Categories:
varmints, life,
Form:
Free verse
Easter Chicken's Lament!
"Happy Easter To You!", is the greeting I hear them shout!
Alas, I just lamely roost here, brood, ponder and pout!
I've worked for weeks making eggs and I'm all tuckered out!
All this hoopla about rabbits, I...
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Categories:
varmints, funnyeaster, easter,
Form:
Rhyme
Rabbit Huntin' With Pa
The excitement built for weeks before rabbit huntin' season!
Not to partake of this annual Hoosier ritual was akin to treason!
For certain, on the first day of huntin' season, as a general rule,
Men called in sick...
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Categories:
varmints, childhoodold, autumn, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Jealous Jumping Jaguars
Amazing antiquated alluring alligators
Bending ballistic beyond belief barbells
Crushing curious crimson crucial crocodiles
Delighting dark dank daring darling dwarfs
Enormously elongated elves effortlessly enthusing eagles
Feeling frisky, ferocious, fervently, fanatically fine.
Green gators goading gregarious grievous gargoyles
Hyped up hungry hippos...
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Categories:
varmints, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Abecedarian
The Challenge of the Night
*Image of Night Images by Pixabay.
The Challenge of the Night,
'O Challenge of
the night spilt love,
thy fruits consumed me whole,
You wet my lip,
my heart did sip,
and bore from this my soul,
an aimless spry,
dare naught I die,
to...
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Categories:
varmints, allusion, dark, depression, drink,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am Sure of Nothing
At this time in my life
I am sure of nothing
I earn zilch in the town of nothingville
but still have to pay taxes
I cannot forget the horror
Of that weekend
But for my own sanity I...
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Categories:
varmints, america, environment, political, pollution, wisdom,
Form:
Prose
Our Farming Friend
I think it’s time to share for those pet lovers who care ,
about a friend we had when just a lad.
He was just a wee pup and with us grew up,
working around the barn on...
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Categories:
varmints, animalsjoy,
Form:
Narrative
What My Muse Told Me Late One Stormy Night
What My Muse Told Me Late One Stormy Night
Poetry splashed ink, seen by blinded eyes
What horrors! Words that makes one stop to think-
About this world and its circus of lies
Do not read, touch or even...
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Categories:
varmints, analogy, appreciation, art, character, deep, muse, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
1
the weight of the world
lies on the shoulders of the
one who fell in love with
a damaged individual who
saw the damage in them &
decided that they could share
their pain & with it,
discover that compassion &
love was...
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Categories:
varmints, life,
Form:
Free verse