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Gift of the Sea

From Scrabster harbour we set
Sea fishing we go
Off Dunnett Head
Dinghy in tow
 
A few hours we sail
To reach the spot
To hunt our catch
Check my lobster pots
 
This Pentland firth 
Flowing blue and fresh
With our deep sea rods
Various baits, spinning meps
 
Along the way
Some pots we check
Crustacean grab
Lobster and dab
 
Destination reached
Our fishing ground
Sounder on 
Fish are found
 
Leaded up, lines straight
Darrow's aplenty, strengthened trace
Lines down bottom hit
Watch the tip as we drift
 
The waves deceive
We think a bite
Natures water
Tricks us slight
 
This beautiful day
As patience allows
We hear a shout 
From the starboard bow
 
Wow! dad,
Look at the bend on your rod
Is it a dogfish or ling
Or a monster cod
 
Posture right to reel this catch
Has this fisherman met his match
Over an hour this marathon lasts
Fish against man, sporting ask
 
Forearms ache, back strains
I reel it in, it then regains
Is it tiring, or is it me
This awesome creature from the sea
 
Moments later
Surface splash
A wing of skate
Adrenalin blast
 
Fish aboard
Tagged and weighed
Released with care
In its domain we played
 
The day goes on
With various catch
But only the one
Had met his match
 
The evening draws
With the firth so calm
As we watch the sunset
With a golden dram
To Mother Nature we raise our glass
She is indeed, such a wonderful lass

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Sea Life

I'd love to live a sea life,
there's just so much to do.
It would never ever be boring,
in the deep deep ocean blue.

I could juggle with clownfish,
sunbathe with the rays,
take off with the pilot whales,
and go blading with skates

Blow balloons with the pufferfish,
play pool with a shark
go hunting with sea lions,
teach a dogfish to bark

I could strum with guitarfish,
play piano with tunas,
make jazz with a bass,
then go solo with groupers

And we'd all have sea-cucumber sandwiches for lunch,
and jellyfish for desert.

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A Drunken Tale

Over lips and through da gums
Hooked minno is going down some
Depth by depth there she sinks
Hooked a dam dogfish oh how that stinks
Pulled anchor and now drowning in rum




Tribute To Fishing
Also Entry For
Carolyn Devonshire's
Sea Tale Limericks
GL All

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At the Cottage in the Morning

I like to wake up in the morning at the lake,
I sleep out on the porch, on account of I hate snoring,
so I can hear the tremelo of the daddy loon calling to the babies,
and sometimes I just sit there and listen,
to the kingfisher back in the channel,
and the wet flop of the dogfish early on.
If I listen closely, I can hear a woodpecker on the opposite shore,
hammering away with its rock-hard beak.
Then when I open my eyes,
it's like looking at a fantasy painting,
with pillars of steam rising from the lake,
like fog from a Jurassic swamp in ancient times,
with dragonflies zooming about in the mist,
hunting the doodlebugs and damsonflies 
that hover obliviously over the glasslike water.
The sun rises on the Eastern side,
casting glories of light on the lake in its stillness.
There are no boats out yet,
it is far too still and placid.
I can barely see from my place on the couch
the mouth of the wide channel,
and if I'm lucky I see the family of swans that lurk down there.
I see a white dot drifting away,
and smile when I know I at least saw  one.
Behind the island, which when I was little I called "City Crap",
the remains of a bonfire are just damp piles of ashes,
the remnants of a party someone threw the night before.
I look back up to the sky, which has already turned purple and pink,
and swing my legs out of the bed, and stretch,
awaiting the minute I could slip into that clear, cool water.

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Tidelines

Tidelines

Where land meets sea will always be a special place for me,
Born by the coast, my early memories often seem to be,
Of happy hours beach-combing, adventure mixed with leisure,
As I searched the beach and tideline, for a host of hidden treasure.
Sea glass sparkles in the sun in shades of green and blue, 
The mystery of a “Mermaid’s Purse”, which in my childish view,
Was more than just a Dogfish egg-case, cast upon the strand,
But fashioned for the use of some strange, Sea-siren’s hand.
The shaped bone from a Cuttlefish, so white and light in weight,
A crab-shell now vacated, which was Nature’s armour plate. 
A pebble of Carnelian, semi-precious in its beauty,
All added to the total of my growing, childish booty. 
And even common seaweed was a source of fascination,
As I popped the Bladder Wrack, in simple admiration,
Of Nature’s innovation, and its infinite design,
Even in the plants which grew in seas of salty brine.
Driftwood scoured by the sands, in shapes so strange and twisted,
Thoughts of distant shores from where those works of art have drifted. 
Shells of different shapes and sizes, many pastel hues,
To add to my collection, which later I would use,
On bottles and on boxes as attractive decoration,
Presents for my family, from my shoreline exploration.
The ever-present hope that the magic of the Moon,
Would drive the next high tide to bring a Spanish gold doubloon,
And leave it gleaming high and dry as I patrolled the beach,
A precious piece of history, within my childish reach.
Of course that never happened, but still today for me,
There’s so much that I treasure, from my days beside the sea..

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Killifish

I've got a dish of killifish
I wish to eat that silly fish
Baked, or fried in peanut oil
Roasted, dried, or let to boil.

Make me a star-gazy pie
Take me to the Catfish Fry
Lead me to the China Sea
Feed me hermit crabs and brie.

Help me out with rainbow trout
Salt and thyme and wedge of lime
Filet of sole, or snapper red,
Served up whole, or just the head.

Meals of eels caught on reels
You're the star with caviar
Butter clams served with yams
Can't say no to salmon roe.

Tuna eyes baked in pies
Oh so daring pickled herring
In the lurch for snails and perch
Ring the bells for cockle shells.

Canned sardines on toast with greens
Sturgeon, sprat, and stuff like that
Grouper, pike, that's what I like
Smelt and bream that make me dream.

Cajun shrimp for my new pimp
Lutefisk and lobster bisque
Flying squid and yellowfin
Silver carp and capelin. 

Give to me a plate of oyster
Eat them raw, that way they're moister
Tilapia and tiger prawn
Eat them 'til my hunger's gone.

Hake or krill would be a thrill
Bass and shad will make me glad
Tasty crappie makes happy
Give a nod to Greenland cod

Oo! I'd like a northern pike
Barramundi served on Sunday
Grouper, alligator gar,
Halibut or no cigar.

Amberjack atop hardtack
Pan-fried kipper for the skipper
Mackerel, tasty as hell, 
Lox and mullet down the gullet.

Kokanee or marlin blue
Arowana, bowfin too
Bring to me your soups and stews
Sing for me the dogfish blues.

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AYE AYE AND A MISTRESS

HIS   WISH   TO   STOP  ZEBRAS  FISHING

Zebras you, Xavier, want very urgently to sit real quiet,
Pound over numberless  marine  liquid  kilometers just in haste,  
Going  for every  dogfish  casually  basking around.

(Reverse  ABC )
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ACROSTIC

How to stop them
Is the problem
So let's  start to think . . . 

Where are these zebras going
In such haste
Searching for 
Hours and hours 
Till the sun dips 
Over the hill and 
Sunset arrives?

They need fish 
Or else their hunger
Pains will exceed those of any 
Zebra,  crocodile
Elephant, rhinoceros
Buffalo or dog,
Roaring with pains 
All through their 
Stomachs :  so

For God’s sake
In the name of mealtimes
Suffer the little zebras,
However striped and horse-like,
In their passion  for dogfish.

No doubt  Xavier's  - like the zebra’s  -
Gotta   eat too.

(  Acrostic reads  “HIS WISH  -  TO STOP ZEBRAS FISHING”  )

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ALL   XAVIER’S   ANIMALS   HAVE   THEIR   ROLES

Zebras zoom zestfully  -  zombies zipping,
But  - basking  between big broad 
Dogfish doing dances, diving, dripping  - 

Shy shellfish stop, sitting serenely still,  so several survive,
Casually caring, clearly cooperating,
And always active and artfully alive.

My male mallard merry  makes  -
Quickly quacking,  quietly quiescent  -
Loving long-lasting little liquid lakes.

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Entry  for  Debbie Guzzi's Contest 	"Aye, Aye, and A Mistress"

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QUESTIONING

Trending the nude prints,
life had been dismissive,
plucking the gray hairs from brows.

Manipulating the dopamine
the body’s odour
wafted through the cluttering limbs.

Charcoal underlines the
need of a wounded dove.
What else one needs from grain and water.

The tears will sew the lids
one day. I don’t want
to *******he sea again.

The dogfish comes on the
shores for a rebuttal.
It had never led a dog’s life.



Satish Verma

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Pastel printed peanuts pronounce pronouns precisely

Is the logic of a lioness the same as a dogfish? Or a display in a shop window of pretty pink kittens? Very definite is a definition of derived detail. Oh look over there. Quickly. The window in the furniture store has become quite alive. The chair is moving away from the table and the table leg is attempting to snare the chair but it isn't working. Oh such commentary of the wall clock. Standing proudly on the street. Admiring the sun clad people in shirts skirts and shorts. Ready for a little time in the waves. But waves are not wiry nor weaves. And a polish arriving is a main line attempt to break into a glamorous mermaid glass. And so it has a day in the country air to dash up and down. Chasing sticks. Sticks sticking salivating salty sprat of spray. But not in a yawn is a yard and no harsh hound is a hateful hasty hairbrush. But hairbreadth is said to be useful for a comb to attempt keep fit and therefore remain toned. Ha the undertones of an untamed unfathomable unicorn. Ha a beak of a silver cup chatting. Xxxx intoxication z z z z at nineteen peeled grape slices to zero ground driving drips. Z z z z z