Short Lake Erie Poems

boat on lake erie 
steady sailing on water 
captain of our ship...

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ufos fly lake erie

and blow air force theory

for each tows signs

flashing these lines

we stole a cow from oleary.
...

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Ole Lake Erie knows how to make snow
Cold wind blowing across the warm lake
Like a giant machine the snow make
Blinding blizzard then sun will break
Ole Lake Erie puts on a grand show...

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Beautiful Lake Erie bound by New York 
Romantic honeymoon, bottle and cork 
It went up with Viagra 
spilled unlike Niagara 
racing fast to arrive before the Stork!  

2/24/16
Cheers!...

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Torrents pound ground.
Raincoat over head
going for the mail.

Small dog - large voice
yapping on and on.

Dog now howling,

Lake Erie has thrown
a bucket
of cold water over its head.

It could happen,
it's a very Great Lake....

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I have this small birdbath
in my backyard
apparently the talk of the
whole Bird-town -- not much
larger than a good-size hubcap, 
one would think it was Lake Erie
size takes on different perspective
in the desert; like a prairie dog
is fat pheasant to a snake -- a jackrabbit
seldom fast enough for a hungered, blood-thirsty
coyote once targeted -- even a cartoon Willy would 
shed his cartoon ink, in the real desert~ life here, first
is all about drink....

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In golden dawn of day
Fish the color of lake and sky
Swam Lake Erie wide in eye.

Twenty thousand years past
Fins chased by glaciers:
Blue pike survived
Until too many waves of our breed
Swept them from the lake
With taint and nets of greed
In a hundred years-long dusk.

Too much like Sandburg’s Buffalo Dusk
The Blue pike and their fishermen are gone:
Too much chased from ice to nets
To gray smoke dusk, 
Black empty night –
The Blue pike and the men who saw them
Gone....

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