Sea Change
...A tusked wolf dips its paw into the brine
the sea is its restless mother.
A proto creature, its bones already growing
razorback fins and horns, it must seek a shell
to hide beneath. The fanged ma...
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Categories:
razorback, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Mountains of Arkansas
...The sun raises up over the ridge
The sky shines a multitude of colors
Pink with a tinge of purple
That only lasts for a few precious moments
Some mornings the clouds
Come down from the sky ...
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Categories:
razorback, animal, beautiful, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse
A Study In Bronze
...I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it
On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the
dingo’s call? It couldn’t be as all
Round me were the sounds of London go...
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Categories:
razorback, endurance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Fin Whales
...Fin Whales are listed as, endangered
and are the second largest animal, on our planet
they swim in, California, Coral Triangle and Artic waters
and the ridge on their back, is nicknamed “razorback...
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Categories:
razorback, animal, beautiful, earth, education,
Form: Rhyme
Razorback Decides
...Ellen’s pet, a razorback was always near.
Why this happened was never fully clear.
Pete wanted to court Ellen, but had fear.
Zee, her pig had chewed off another man’s ear.
Thinking he was silly...
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Categories:
razorback, humorous,
Form: Monorhyme
Sea Changes
...I have stood on many shores
and felt the long evolution of the deepest waves
where life spawns its leaping adaptions.
I have listened
to the trumpeting of great armored sea-bulls
echoing in th...
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Categories:
razorback, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Goddess of the Severn
...Pulses drown saturated elvers
As a crescent delivers it's catch
White bellied roaches slap and disperse
Pierced and broken suckers latch
Flushed forearms lock with a match
Bleached fingers curl...
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Categories:
razorback, blessing, fish, religious,
Form: Ballade
Ole Brownie (P1)
...“Ole Brownie”
The meanest and the best,
Proven among the rest,
My dog in Arkansas, pope county,
I present, ole Brownie,
With first cold front,
Arkansans begin the hunt,
Razorback hogs,
wi...
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Categories:
razorback, funnydog, dog,
Form: Light Verse
Razorback Hoghunt (Ole Brownie P2)
...Meat in my smokehouse a bit light,
With the weather about right,
One morning at first light,
I headed to buzzard roost hollow,
A leash on Brownie’s collar,
But Brownie went crazy as a goose,
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Categories:
razorback, funnydog, light, dog, light,
Form: Light Verse