Category: Creek Seekers Poetry Contest

I heard from the teachers at the highschool and middleschool that they are working for entries to the poetry contest. I also heard from the superintendent that this will be pursued at every school in the Martinez Unified School District. I like to think that the creek seekers contest will be heavily beaver-laden. Much more lively than these austere entries with only two stuffed beavers for inspiration. Here’s a little more encouragement to get you started, from an online poetry hub by a poster called “Barranca”.

 

 By: Barranca

 

The Beaver and the Flyfisherman

 

It’s a standoff

And the Beaver is Pissed off.

The Flyfisherman sees

a likely deep pool

behind the lodge but

The Beaver sees

an Intruder.

The war begins with a sudden

loud splash behind

the Flyfisherman

which makes him think

a Savage on shore must

be throwing big rocks.

But undeterred, he

fishes on while the Beaver

tries to make himself even clearer,

patrolling the full extent of his domain

up and down the river.

Downwind, he treads water and

histrionically sniffs the air

as if to say-“Who is this obtuse asshole in my pool?”

Back and forth, back and forth

not ten feet from the Fisherman.

And now come Four Gorgeous Ducks

who cruise in peacefully

but intent upon their business,

they won’t choose sides.

At last

the Flyfisherman,

unlucky in his original mission,

switches to plan two.