Short Chaw Poems

Chicory chew chew, tobakky chaw
I love my pappy. I love my ma.
Spit in a tin can, straight from my jaw
Chicory chew chew, tobakky chaw....

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In search of long lost orchards
where apple blossoms bloom;
an ole white ashen farmhouse
and corncrib-playhouse rooms.

Searching for the scent of pine
where lingering laughter lies,
for the summer days gone by
and seashells on the tide.

Hungering for spruce gum chaw
we dug from crooks of trees
for the tart and bittersweet
memories of childhood deeds....

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Cowboy Howdy the Clown still goes
To town with ten little shoes on his toes
Purple hair and a square blue nose
Ten grey flowers for Cimarron Rose
An itty bitty teeny weeny cowboy hat 
Vaquero chaps and a little dogies tat
A plug of chaw and a lariat
Two six-shooters and a shoulder rat
He sure looks silly; he sure looks strange
And he's looking for his home on the range....

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Grandpa and his kin gathered at the mill,
“It’s n’uther thanksgiving, y’all! Eat yer fill!
Hey cuzz Joe Bob, what’s the deal?
Whose turkey did y’all steal?”
What turkey? Y’all be chompin on road kill!

Yes siree y’all might have to chaw some,
But this barbequed swill be awesome!
Be a shame for it to waste,
So salt and pepper to taste,
And feast on some almost fresh possum!


Inspired by :
my poetry friend Carolyn Devonshire. : )...

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Glad to be here next to morning 
where the sun shines like a sign 
Augur moments made for singing 
old refrains of songs of time 
Belting out she aims to rhyme 

It's an honor to be part of 
earth's remembrances and joy 
Harbingers of love thereof 
she His messenger His envoy 
Singing out like Helen of Troy 

Beneath a sky of ancient blue 
one daughter filled with awe 
Revering flowers filled with dew 
and blessed crows that caw 
Voicing out with gusto, chaw...

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