Emerged Rationalism
...They tell us once there was a crow.
Wavering alone in the peril zone
The feeble is not straight on a clue.
It has been winging since the era of stone.
The crow saw the cost of the snare, he sa...
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Categories:
tarpon, adventure, angel, bird, character,
Form: Free verse
An Old Mistake Remembered
...I bring to you a memory…a story that undertakes
to show we never know what lesson we will learn from our mistakes.
Years ago I took my students on a field trip to Tarpon Springs
We visited the s...
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Categories:
tarpon, life,
Form: Verse
Sugarloaf Key
...Loosely following local laws
checking Henry's traps for claws
Up government cut
down tarpon creek
Night-winds cool
my sunburnt mind
Feasting like gypsies
listening for Bum Farto...
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Categories:
tarpon, adventure, corruption, fishing, history,
Form: Rhyme
Sidewalk Charm
...Collected
Standing quietly smiling
In a throng of hurried stress
Contentedly beguiling
In a soft blue gingham dress
Absorbing city sunlight
Like a sponge in Tarpon Springs
While gulf currents ...
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Categories:
tarpon, inspirational, life, people,
Form: Ballad
Tarpon Bayou
...On the bayou, molded brick streets
circle docks of wooden backbones stretched
into black water, limbs sunk into seaweed
now catchalls for rusty abandoned fish hooks from
the "one that got away...
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Categories:
tarpon, death, life, love, people,
Form: Free verse