Greeting amistad
You almost blew us away
With your tornado
Coots
Every morning we watched the coots
Fly in from far and near
With beaks of white and eyes of red
And a sleek and feathery veneer
It appears they called a meeting
Every morning on the lake
To find the days delicious food
while quacking and diving in place
We watched these ol strange coots
Dive down below the waters
For up to 30 seconds
They’re notorious deep lake divers
Some have looked those birds over
And asked “are those all ducks”
But we know from our own expert
That such a postulation is absolutely nuts
Gillespie our van
Held together by duct tape
Fifteen is better
Islands
The days where long and the buffelgrass was vast
The day came when we could board the boat at last
The lake is choppy the winds are high
But it is still so much better than spraying herbicide
Finally the islands came into view
We rammed the rocky shores and waited for the cue
We sawed threw vegetation
With no discrimination
The mission of our trip was habitat restoration
The deed is done we finished island one
With hopes that island two will be just as fun
Space was limited on this island for this type of chore
So only Dylan and Kim braved the rocky shore
The boat would not stay docked for long due to the prevailing wind.
Drifting away the remaining crew looked on as the vegetation was thinned
Little did they know that on the island there lied
A small kingdom of strong red ants striving to take our lives
Dylan screamed “ahh their bites are like knives!”
The valiant sawyers were swift with their work
The nearly made it back on the boat where no fire ants lurk
Thorns thorns everywhere
There are no leaves only thorns
Ouch it’s in my butt
Marcus and the snacks
Plants native and invasive
He gives us the facts
Ode to chiggers
What are things
That you can rarely see
That bite you like crazy
and always leave you itchy
They’re chiggers I tell you!
And I think they’re everywhere
They surely caught us bad in amistad
Unprepared and unaware
While we were innocently working
They creeped and crawled their way
Into places I am ashamed to even mention by name
Suddenly the itching started
And We were horrified to find
Bumps and rashes all over our bodies
Popping up in no time!
Nothing eased the pain
And nothing soothed the itching
We have all succumb to a life
Of ceaseless reminiscing
Of the time before the chiggers came
And before they left their gifts
Forever more we will think of amistad
As the place of one great itch
By: Red Crew
