Up a Cranberry Tree Ii: Piney Poems

By Harry S. Monesson

Since early childhood, the pines, lakes, bay, bogs, and streams of southern New Jersey have served as Harry S. Monessons home, school and playground.

In this volume will be found the whimsical humor and wisdom of the independent and resourceful People of the Pines, fondly remembered through a poetic dialect once commonly spoken in South Jersey.

Harry is a blueberry/cranberry grower, writer and author residing in Pemberton, New Jersey. His published books are: Knibblers in the Sand, Sand, Sand Sharks in the Pines; The Worlds Biggest Tummy; Berry Patch Tales; Boggenskrogin; Short Stories and Vignettes; Sand Sharks in the Pines; Charmion, Giantess of Divine Providence; and other diverse genre novels and cartoon collections.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 21, 2008
• ISBN: 9781465327659

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Copyright © 1997, 2008 by Harry S. Monesson, Pemberton, NJ.

Illustrated by Author

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without written permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: TXU786-631

ISBN 0-9633735-1-X

Monesson Harry S.

Up A Cranberry Tree II

Pemberton, New Jersey

First Edition, 1997 Harry S. Monesson & Bellywhistle Press

Reprinted 1998

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Contents

Me Pinelands Home

Lookin’ Fer A Briney

A Hawkin’ Man

A Smart Tart Feller

Old Bog Gate and the Dragonfly

The Aquifer Maggot

A Bog Runnin’ Machine

Corn Critters

The Gray Frog

Three Percent Tree Frog

Cholesterol Got Her

Mersquiters

A Noisy Little Feller

Buck Chase

The Bogman

Piney Cookin’

Cran Berried

Honkers

The Timber Rattler

A Fresh Piney Pie

San’ Fleas

The First Poetry Cornvention

A Tasty Critter

Duck Fever

Crabbin’

No Sech Hanimal

Bog Squeezin’s

Barnegat Bay Sleigh

A Drowned Lander’s Drought

The Sphagnumskonk Says  . . .

Craneberry Juice

Seaswept

A Bassin’ Bayman

Hoein’ In The Kookumbers

A Batsto Iron Man

Johnny Bogfeller’s Bed

Craneberry Sauce

J.D. Up A Tree Stand

Bog Logic (Johnny Bogfeller)

Pinelands Clatter

Rattlesnake Andy Says  . . .

Road Game

Boo

Billy Beetle

Berry Critters

A Merry Berry Hue

Gone

Bog Kiss

Through The Sluice Gate

A Pained Neck

The Yorkshireman

The Sacred Hunt

A Comic Education

Dinosnore Tale

Red Coat Bait Fishin’

The Cat’s Pick

Old Scratchfuzz

Smudge of Fudge

Cat’s Nip

Bugtails

Pine Shore Chatter

(N.J. circa 1900)

Hot Ice

Excuse The Bug Juice

(N.J. circa 1900)

The Gobble Dream

Millipede—Centipede

Ticklesome Rose

A Bog Diggin’ Man

Un-Sciencin’ A Road

Turkle an’ Cat Soup

The Long Winter 1995-1996

A Dry Bog Harvest

A Sweet Picker

Ninety-nine Percent Piney

Permissioner Preservation

Me O’erripe Bog

A Homesick Piney

Roadside Eatin’

Hain’t Talkin’

Cranberry Bargain

A Mr. J.D. Briar Handshake

A Bog Feast

The Pie-Eatin’ Contest

Piney Meter

Thank you Miss Barbie Yorkie Davis

for bein’ as patient with me

as a Barnegat ketched bivalve

sittin’ in a grass sack