far removed in the Everglades
and well off the beaten track
at a bend in a blackwater creek
stands a swamp wizard's lonely shack
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Wow, this poem is so cool, it strikes a note with me, I was raised close to Miami and spent my youth in the Everglades, there were all kinds of stories about swamp creatures and hermits that would come out at night and eat kids that were camping having fun, this brings me right back to those camp fire moments! Great job Barry! !
Thanks Bill, glad you like it. Best swamp narrative I ever heard was Jim Stafford's Swamp Witch. I do love the wilderness and there is plenty left in Florida.
Very moving the whole climate of the poetical story folded into the mist of reality's and fantacy's world.
Thanks Dimitrios. I love it when I get a good narrative idea and develop it successfully.