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Tarpon Poems - Poems about Tarpon


Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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




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