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Bill Allbright is a very talented man
who lives in Heber Springs
These poems or verses are copyright protected
Enjoy but do not take
Written by Bill Allbright
2/27/2003 After a heavy
snow fell over Heber Springs
Street Crew Action
by Bill Allbright
I Love My Street
For I Have Traction
The City Crew
Swung Into Action !
With Truck And Spreader
Upon The Ice
So My Tires Grip
With Traction Nice !
They Slung That Grit
With Flair And Pride
Now I Can Drive
And Never Slide !
They Did Not Leave Me
In The Snow
And So It's Off
To Work I Go !
They Did Not Leave Me
In The Lurch
So Sunday I Can
Go To Church !
They Did Not Leave Me
They Had A Heart
Now I Can Even
Do Wal-Mart !
I'm Glad That Heber
Is My Zip
It's A Good Place
To Get A Grip !
Aligator and Boat
A Mother sent her boy to the bayou
for a pail of water.
When he got there he saw a huge
aligator and became terrified and ran home without the water. (The alligator was lounging under the first level of Bubba
Ramsey and Mike Cothren's yacht)
( I can't imagine this, but) the
Mother said "Honey, that alligator is as scared of you, as you are of him".
The boy replied, "Mom, If that
alligator is as scared of me as I am of him, you don't want the water! " |
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VW Bug For Sale
By Bill Allbright
I Love My Bug
It Gets Me Home
From Anywhere
I Choose To Roam
I Love My Bug
It Does Me Please
It Leaks Oil
Not Antifreeze
It's Four Speed Shifter
In The Floor
Is 22 Inches
From Each Door
The Heater Is
Almost Enough
Don't Buy A Bug
If You Aren't Tough
I Love My Bug
It Saves Me Gas
Although I Never
Get To Pass
But That's Ok
It's All I Need
Bugs Are For Fun
And Not For Speed
My Beetle Car
It Is A Winner
What's Saved On Gas
I Spend On Dinner
The Windshield Is Right
Before My Nose
The Back Seat Holds
One Change Of Clothes
So Exuse My
Farfegnugen Braggin'
I Love My Little
Green Volkswagen
7 Mineral Springs
by Bill Allbright
Sulfur Water
from Spring Park
Filling jugs
from dawn 'til dark
Jugs refrigerated
chilly
Help to pacify
poor Billy
Who never did
too much real harm
Who didn't know why
it was served warm
And smelly
like eggs a rottin'
or poison like they
spray on cotton
The coach in High School
Football Camp
Served it warm
(You would not cramp)
He claimed
(I was a teen)
I think he was
just sulfur mean
But...it keeps chiggers
off your skin
And would be friends
and next of kin
Seven sulfurs
my oh my
Red sulfur, Arsentic
and Eye
Seven sulfurs
drink 'em all
Drink just one
or none at all
One thing I cannot
though deny
Those who drink it
don't soon die
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SNAKE RAFTS ????
by Bill Allbright
Have you ever seen a whole nest or raft of snakes out in the lake?
Thousands of them wadded up altogether. A varitable swarming,
silthering, commuity of asps. Can you just imagine falling off your
skiis into that?
They ought to have some of those daredevil program
contestants come here and ski thorough the Greers Ferry Snake Raft!!!!
I heard of a guy who trolled right into the middle of one of them rafts with his trolling
motor on his party barge....they took him to SAM HAILE'S SERVICE STATION
to put patches on all the bite holes so he wouldn't dehydrate. Before he even healed up, he went to RED RIVER MARINE,
bought 4, 10 hp outboards, mounted them across the back of his party barge, took a file and sharpened the blades of the props,
and took off looking for those snakes...
He aimed to run through them many times and cut 'em to smitherines.
He hasn't been seen since, but every now and then
someone sees a party barge at night, slowly cruising across Greers Ferry Lake, it's depth/fish/snake finder eerily glowing
in the dark.... YECH...
Sugarloaf Mountain
by Bill Allbright
East of Heber
Is a hill
With rocky top
(It is there still)
It's been out there
so long my pard
That all them rocks
and dirts' got hard
It's been out there
since I was smaller
It's the same
I'm rounder, taller
Rocks and Dirt
I wonder whether
They hold this
Heber Springs together
Beside the river
now full of trout
And barbless hooks
and stuff that out
Of boats at times
has fallen
In the Spring and
Summer pollen
Back to the hill
so solitary
Did anyone up there
ever marry?
Exchanging vows
upon the rock
While overhead
flies half of flock
Of Cattle Egrets
on the way
Enroute to pastures
for the day
For cattle herding
eating bugs
Giving little
birdie hugs
Then in the evening
they fly smilin'
To some Greers Ferry
roosting island
But back to Sugar Loaf
I wonder
When there's lightening
does it thunder?
Way on up there
in the clouds
Is it soft or
is it loud
It's place in Heber
is unique
Out near the end
of Sulfur Creek
The hill endures
we it ascend
The river flows
beyond the bend
Feet on the hill
Feet in the River
So cold you cannot
help but shiver
Sugar Loaf Mountain
you take the cake
One by the river
two in the lake
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