Get Your Premium Membership

Red Herring Poems - Poems about Red Herring

Red Herring Poems - Examples of all types of poems about red herring to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for red herring.
The Pull and Pull Of a Fisherman
...I mouth the words and giggle, shrill and bright Just how you like it. I make sure to take all the corresponding steps, to walk this sugar-glazed path Tongue on your neck I make sure everything’......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, angst, fish, river,
Form: Free verse



Some Call It Beer But To Me It's Called Grog
...~ A broken torpedo got wedged in my eye, making me squint out some tea Laughed at a submarine sauntering by, hoagies afloat on the sea Gathering minnows from dams ‘bout to break, op......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ufos
...If you ask our NewsMax, America One fueled, republican congressmen who won the last presidential election - they’ll pretend that they don’t know. But hey, these are the guys, the “honest brokers” w......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, confusion, future, humor, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Red Herring
...Meandering paths through the forest of voices We all hunt the Fox, the fox of truth and of choices. Let loose the hounds that lose the scent. The foul fishy flash that keeps their nose bent. S......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, deep, fish, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Red Herring
...What is 222 and 333? Do you smuggle drugs? Are you underworld don? Do you use multiple numbers? Do you have friends in NWFP? Do you have several accounts? Who is Supari according to you? Do yo......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, addiction, business, class, corruption,
Form: List



Premium Member Red Herring
...her lying alibi was found dead at sea ~ his sole’s in the right plaice......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, fish, humorous, word play,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Scope Worship Illusion
...scope gulls along shoreline cast progression and motion – shadow horizon worship rain ribbons the sun rays’ drizzle evaporates nudist takes shelter illusion sea mew cre......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, devotion,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Optimistic Youth, Jaded Age
...Roll out a lifetime like a scroll It stretches but only so far And writing slowly fills the scroll From left to right And when the writing stops The story is over As a youth I thought it stre......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Even If God's Absent
...If God stinks like red herring and our souls do not exist, if every star’s an ember that will only burn awhile, if ‘Big Bang’ falls back on itself, reflects to make a point: are Redwoods nothing b......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, faith, love, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Daffodils In Bloom
... Daffodils in bloom We all did assume But if they did die We all know why The sun is murder Pushed ever further By the uncaring And religion is a red herring For profit is their king An......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, earth, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Red Herring of Lapsing Time
...Fall’s felicitous red herring — the mystery of leaves morphing. The autumnal applause fairing. Verdant heat and daylight dwarfing. The horologic ticker chimes, as lines are drawn on pumpkins p......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, age, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 50 Words For Poe: Strangelove
... "50 Words for Poe: Strangelove" Strangelove was waiting in Holdnerness He was anticipating with a certain glee The “Arrival” of Ms Bon Vivant, her sharpness and sharing conve......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, adventure, freedom, fun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Carnival of Cannibals and Crabs
...Life's a carnival ride, a bag of barkers and crabs pinching the mind with pink toys and shiny swag stuffing your mind with sweet soft fuzzy things wraps you in heavy chains and a cold nose ring, ......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, abuse, dark, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Innocence
...Long ago a year or so I received accolades a plenty I won this, and I won that I was on top of it all I was almost the whole shebang I was important I was all about me I pandered and pounded ......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, 3rd grade, character, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lewis Trap
... “The Lewis Trap” Well, of course he's misanthropic He’s a Misanthropic Man The Devil’s in the details Buried deep under the covers Of bedtime......Read the rest...
Categories: red herring, abuse, addiction, child abuse,
Form: Free verse

Related Poems


Book: Shattered Sighs