Short Gators Poems

Once a colony
Empire state of the south
Trout, gators, catfish...

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love the S.E.C.
gators,bulldogs and gamecocks
rebels,crimson tide...

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I journey through the Everglades.
Gators cut through the water like blades....

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Who's to say why 
    Africa bothers him  
 
  Some cite the alley gators
    Others say ~ It's the jungle, Jim....

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There once was a man named Stan
That made a daredevil plan
His skydiving date
The chute opened late
Hungry gators called their clan...

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Wrestling gators by hand
Or failing some ill- conceived plan
If it's done stupidly 
I can about guarantee
It was done by a "Florida man".

7.26.19...

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A professional wrestler of gators
Tried his luck as a restaurant waiter
   He'd feint and he'd juke
   Many patrons puked
Seafood business surprisingly cratered...

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whales, crocs, minks, gators,

                                                                tigers, endangered species,

                                          never ants'  worries...

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OKEFENOKEE

Dark, mysterious
Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp
With 'gators and snakes

13 August 2018
For the contest sponsored by Tania Kitchin







13 August 2018
For the contest sponsored by Tania Kitchin...

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Down south on the small alligator farm
Alligators grown to size to alarm
All the workers there too scared
Of young gators as they aired
Parachuted food to keep them from harm

(Inspired by Carolyn's picture but not entry.)...

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the merchant beguile
sat not sanded, miracle mile
what went where whence
was their way, around the fence
in American fen
gators and crossbow
sickened accosted
absolutely aware
awed without care
float and flutter
your way through this life
see me clear
back to my wife...

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When the skydiver leapt from his plane

     What he saw below to his great disdain

          Were 'gators flexing their jaws

               Expecting grub for their maws

                    To pursue this sport he must be insane

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 8 in Caroline Devonshire's "To Die For" Limerick Contest - July 2010...

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More Woe To Florida

By Elton Camp

Living in Florida sure ain't grand
There's skeeters, flies and sand

Lotta old folks with leathery skin
And house prices dropped again

The tap water is yellow and foul
Gators and snakes make 'em howl

If the sea level happens to rise
Then underwater much of it lies

Now it may have a double punch
A hurricane & a Republican bunch

How much more can they take
Before they get a bad belly ache...

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Snapdragons Crackle

 
Snapdragons crackle 
in the air for Maura
and her flowing gait, 

a swagger neither Nora
nor Maureen would ever 
let a suitor savor.

Maura knows 
that in her wake
men with scythes 

and burlap sacks,
creep like gators,
eyes afire, jaws agape.

Nora and Maureen 
can smell these men. 
Unlike Maura 

and her flowing gait,
Nora and Maureen will smile,
take their time and wait.
 

Donal Mahoney...

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While we humans are living in fear,
those sweet cats and the dogs we hold dear
get added attention
since we’re in detention.
Pets are thrilled that Corona is here!

Our societies came to a crawl,
but the creatures are having a ball.
Gators saunter to stores.
Monkeys, goats, and wild boars
running free aren’t so dumb after all!

April 23, 2020 for  Janice Canerdy's Limerick Contest
(I think my fingers hit the wrong keys first time around!)...

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