Best Carp Poems

bug eyed and no place
                                 to hide    my naked goldfish
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Why do I do it, It’s hard to explain
This obsession that’s driving me slowly insane
The dark hours seem endless, the boredom intense
You would think at my age I’d have more common sense

The weather’s ‘Brass Monkey’ bitter and bleak
With many blank sessions for many a week
In...

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narcissus, the pond
across the surface ripples
disillusionment
dead in the water, floating
not so koi now, bloated carp

by gail...

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he sits and he stares he miows and he purrs he's mocking and making his plan
i'm ahead of his game my agendas the same a battle of cat versus man
as i sit and reminisce it wasn't always like this at first we had an unbreakable...

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Clutching
The end of my Zebco rod and reel
As the cast of tackle is flung
Like a small knot of costume jewelry
Skimming atop the caramel-colored Grand River
Dragonfly rattling awry

The vibration tingling in the palm of my hand
As if I had cupped an angry bee
Until the swivel hook...

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Carp


A Carp in the fryer,
is worth far more than,
all the trout in a lake.


By
Josehf Lloyd Murchison...

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seize today
run with her
throw her to the moon
lasso her around a tree limb and swing on her
you only have one opportunity to adore her 
before tomorrow knocks her out of the park...

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haiku happening.
noon sun sizzles-pavement hot-
carp splashing in lake....

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