In Pike a Virelai

Just a little tyke
When on the hearth~strike
Then blaze

Warmth flowed throughout like
Happiness 'pon trike
Young days

When you were godlike
I'd feel dreamlike
A phase

Let me paraphrase
It's not hollandaise
Just dreams

Down by waterways
Where God I could praise
Fish teem 

As 'pon stream I gaze
Large bream dreams always
Sea bream

No_ hatchlings that gleam
And bring forth moonbeams
That strike

'Pon the eyes_pipe dreams
Whipped and fluffed upstream
A seiche

Dreams come true it seems
Strike brought fire agleam
In Pike

Written: 03/17/2023
Contest: Write Me A Virelai
Sponsor: Kim Rodrigues
Pike..A county in Georgia in which we once lived.
Strike: Daddy would strike the match on the hearth to start a fire. Some fish when they bite do what is called a strike.
Seiche: a disturbance of the water caused usually by atmospheric pressure change.
Apparently, there are sea bream as well as freshwater bream. I am sure the sea bream are much bigger but those tiny bait fish I was catching looked like sea bream to me at my young age.

Checked with how many syllables

liferhyme

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