Short Gopher Poems

Wet Wood
Haiku
By: Tom Wright

Lighting wet wood is
An impossibility
With a gopher match
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  If a gopher sees its shadow
    Winter's here to stay

  More accurate than any weatherman
    Even gets it right for yesterday!...

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O, Viking Gods of the Norse
you governed the mighty seas
your boats were built of gopher wood
and you made wise use of a breeze!


      Copyright McCuen 2008...

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I'll never sell my old .22
cause that old .22
shot a gopher or two

I aim to the left
and a little low
cause that old .22 fires high 
and a little to the right.

So i'll never sell that old .22....

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Gopher decided he would dig to China, and so he did.
He began to charge customers, who wanted to travel far away.
It’s a joke some said, a gimmick, a tease, a kid.
So, they did not get to venture to China that day....

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Sun’s up
Neighborhood cats
Have resumed their posts
In my yard full of holes
Arms folded, ever alert
Occasionally arching, creeping 
And even springing
At giggling gopher ghosts
The felines revel
In having something to do
Getting it done
Would spoil the fun...

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a gopher sat on my toe today
sassy and saucy, his name was Ray
What fun do you have? The scamp asked me
I rocked my toe, so he could see

Do that again, he goaded me
I teeter-tottered him to my knee
Come back tomorrow the gopher said
He blew me a kiss and my face turned red...

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Breaking points are reached
when you are gliding
just is as smooth as silk.

Acceptable risks go rogue,
easy-street gets bumpy;

beware then
for there are gopher holes,
shoals of piranha appear
in rain puddles,

then sleeping moles awaken in your head
and they don't like smooth....

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I.

I strolled through a field of clovers 
Looking each one of them over 
When I found that fourth leaf 
All my joy turned to grief 
When my prize was snatched by a gopher.


II.
 
Last night as I left the bar 
A leprechaun stood by my car 
He offered to drive 
So I’d get home alive 
And now I don’t know where we are.
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Find me in the sea full of empty shells.
They are bones over Noah’s burnt vessel,
ashes of gopher, Calvary’s wood the
timeless ark and rungs on Jacob’s ladder.
Moor your might to my truth and blink your eye.
Before you’re adrift in Luke’s gulf, find me.

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Date: 01.18.17
Contest: Find Me In Six
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud...

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Chubs is gravely flat.
We remove our hats.
Her wheel deflated him—
Chubs, my cuddly cat.

Flounder is lying flat,
ambling on his back.
Her croutons choked him—
Flounder, my friendly catfish.

Gopher is resting back-flat,
striking position for naps.
Her diabolical chocolate gateau
snuffed him out almost.

Gopher rose once again,
my mangy mutt, back-to-life. 
Ma decried; she'd die
in a reindeer stampede...

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                    Find me
	    in the 	        sea full 
	of empty 	        shells.
	They are 	        bones over 
   Noah’s 			         burnt vessel,
    ashes 			         of gopher, 
Calvary’s 			         wood the
	 timeless 	        ark and 
	rungs on 	        Jacob’s ladder.
      Moor your 	        might to 
	my truth 	        and blink 	
	your eye.	        Before 		
	  you are 	        adrift 
	in Luke’s 	        gulf, 
		     find me....

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