Short Coot Poems

Colorful Coot

Purple gallinule iridescence swimming, reflecting--
   

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 14, 2010

Poetic form: Monuku...

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I design myself a turban of exotic fruit
To wear with my fabulous orange holiday suit
I wish I could find my other paisley green boot
To visit Gramps, an old colorful coot....

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As thin as a thistle Santa  in chimney  got stuck
In  the passage heavily blocked by years of  muck
struggling through the  soot
Santa fell down like a coot
And came out looking like a dark fancy duck....

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Lately, I've gathered more friends on The Soup
To my British pals, I give out a big whoop
They're the reason no doubt
Spreading my lims about
Else I'd ride into the sunset, a gum-flapping coot...

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Bob got slapped while just shopping for fruit.
The young girl yelled, “You raunchy old coot.
Really, you’ve got the nerve!”
He said, “I don’t deserve
such abuse--those aren’t melons? Oh, shoot!”...

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It's a well known fact, to skydive you need a parachute
But only if you intend to skydive twice, you silly coot
You see... oh forget it
Guess it doesn't transmit
Ask young'uns, they'll give your ass a boot...

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I remember an old coot named Sam Ball
For him many a young girl took a fall
He was a lecherous old fool
Yeah, I would say he was a ghoul
Young girls ran away when he came to call.


written July 6, 2021...

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South American Coot little birds
Black feathered wings with orange beak
Swims with a graceful swift in
The murky waters spout
Hiding in the green
Foliage when
Sees someone
Looking 
Them









Nayda Ivette
1-5-2016...

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Charmaine my love, you're the sweetheart of the Soup
Everyone adores you including this nincompoop
If you ever leave
So many would grief
Probably thousands would leave including this old coot


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Limerick: Once crazy Coot in spring chased female Coot

Once crazy Coot in spring chased female Coot
She squawked and shrieked and refused the suit:
He dived and swam up close
Then bit her tail and rose:
Jumped, did his bit and didn’t give a hoot !

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014...

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There was an old coot named Clyde Hugaday

   Who hugged gals in a most passionate way!

      This didn't please his spouse

         And she warned the old louse

            He'd best shape up or there'd be hell to pay!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved...

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There was an old coot named Clyde Hugaday,

   Who hugged gals in a most passionate way!

      This didn't please his spouse,

         And she warned the old louse,

            He'd best shape up or there'd be hell to pay!

Entry for Viv Wigley's "Traditional Limerick" Contest...

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3/4 cups brown sugar
1/4 cups honey
1/4 cups soy sauce
4 Tablespoons ground ginger
4 Tablespoons garlic powder
4 Tablespoons cayenne
1/2 cups lemon juice
3 Tablespoons of spiced rum

mix together and rub on a whole dry chicken
allow to marinade for 3 hours.
bake at 350 degrees until done....

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I
For every scene: washing waterfall
For any gift for my children, phonecall
For every travel you made possible
I feel so grateful, hopeful, O Eternal

II
For even in pollution, this unknown lake
Is a source of beauty: ibis, coot, drake
For ducks, too, and unknown cataracts
I celebrate Creator's provision, love-acts...

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 A Footle?
 
Explain
Again!

~

 Boot?
Coot?
Bottle?
No Footle
 What makes a Footle?
A Footle’s a pootle, you see
You first take a mootle, a small twist of tootle,
then you fattle your fettle and fittle your futtle and that’s how a Footle is made!

~

For Yasmin's Footle Fun Competition.

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Tribute to our limerick humorist, Tom Cunningham.
This poem written as response to his poem: WINTER’S END HUMOR

DEFAMATION OF CHARACTERS AT WINTER’S END

This Tom is a son of a gun, “Oh shoot!”
Exclamation blunt as this poet coot
Defames one more fellow,
With ink makes him bellow.
Another slipknot, “Oh shoot!”

2/26/2020...

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Are Best Won


Found football for fools

With their ridiculous rules

Different thoughts of schools.


Mules sure are stubborn

Must hit again and again

In of course rear end.


Football have to boot

As I sit like an old coot

Loudly have to hoot.


Super Bowl just won

Whole team will sit in the sun

Now they are best one


James Thomas Horn

Retired Veteran...

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Love’s Spirit be majestic,
the eagle’s flight is so inclined,
when eagle majesty is gone,
the cause be of foible in mind.

Rise be fruitful and multiply,
awaits one for His precious fruit,
from heart depth where wealth is kept,
not in the flight of clumsy coot.

Each eagle has it’s egg in nest,
arise splendor reveal your best!! 

For Bald Eagles Contest
In honor of Carolyn Devonshire...

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I once had a boyfriend called Matt
Whose cheeks were incredibly fat!
He had warts on his nose
And gargantuan toes;
Well they say love’s as blind as a bat!

As for Jimmy, I gave him the boot
Though to wed me he was resolute.
But they say that a lad
Will turn into his Dad
And his Dad was as bald as a coot!



'Any animal or creature limerick contest'

 sponsored by Charles Messina


31/08/18...

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I can't think of anything duller
than brown, no one's favorite color

Who wears a brown-colored suit
Must be a curmudgeony old coot

Search high and low for slacks that are brown
You won't find them in any store in town

And when did you last see a fine brown hat?
---on a soldier for camouflage in the midst of combat?

Yet when selecting a new dining room set
Deep, rich brown is your very best bet...

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Some people have the gift,
they can read you like a book,
if you are kind hearted, 
or just an old coot.
Animals have this gift,
they pick, and choose,
some stay with you,
while others fly the coop.
You don't pick the pet,
they sorta pick you,
try walking up to one,
and see what they will do.
Some want to love you,
they will follow you everywhere,
and others keep their distance,
to touch them, don't dare....

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I inherited a worn out clipper which made me mad.
For the rest of the cousins got riches, big and bad.
One got emeralds, another got diamond rings.
I got a clipper ship, without the pirate loot of kings.

Give it a whirl around the cape, my faerie godfather said.
He is a crazy old coot, eccentric, not quite right in the head.
Now what do you think, isn’t this a bit of fun now honey?
It surely was! My clipper ship was magic, and manifested money!...

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