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Tarpon Poems - Poems about Tarpon


Premium MemberEmerged 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 MemberAn 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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