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Best Fish Poems

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Best Fish Poems

Premium Member Small Fish
Holding onto a rail.
I lean over to see my reflection
mirrored in the water 
and small fish swimming
in the camouflage of me.

I muse whether they are...

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Categories: fish, mirror, self, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Wish For Fish and a Dolphins Swish
A WISH FOR ALL FISH

Washed up on shores around the world
Already dead, a whale, a dolphin a shark, 
All marine life is suffering, the situation
Has...

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Categories: fish,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cat and the Fish
A cat jumped in the river
to meet a fellow fish,
he wanted to be like them
it was his only wish.

He figured he could do it
he had...

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Categories: fish, allegory, animal, cat, fate,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Soul Fish
As wandering down onto the sunny, seashore one day
My grandfather and I, on the water’s edge, we stayed

The gentle ebb of the waters flowed in...

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Categories: fish, absence, appreciation, beach, bereavement,
Form: Couplet
Flirty Fish
Our parents chose to join a cult

Nobody asked us

We went along with what they chose

Too small to make a fuss

Indoctrinated,we believed

This life was the norm,

We...

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Categories: fish, people, social, parents, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pointing To the Problems
POINTING TO THE PROBLEMS 
  {Bivouacs}

Beat down with legal fees
Tied up with taxes;
Tripped up with mortgages;
Ripped off with student loans
Insulted with insurance
Telephone updates.

Out of...

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Categories: earth day, emotions, fish,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Do You Remember Me
They walk silently along my hallways.
Floors littered with faded finery.
Do you remember my Granduer?
I had once been called the Queen of the sea.
Pulled down to...

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Categories: beauty, bereavement, eulogy, fish,
Form:
Premium Member Feast of the Beast: Jan Allison and Lin Lane
The mean old housecat has bulgy eyes
when she looks at us in our fish bowl
Oh, how much we've come to despise
that big mouth of hers,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cat, fish,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Dreamt
I dreamt of blue birds
and buzzing bumble bees.
I roamed with the bison herds,
prayed with mantis on our knees,
and butterflies in the breeze.

I greeted the cheery...

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Categories: fish, animal, bird, dream, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fisherwoman - For Contest
A desperate spinster, Jane took

strong measures the day she would cook

fresh trout. Her date bit

the barb left in it!

He truly was caught on her hook!


4/26/2015...

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Categories: fish,
Form: Limerick
Diary of a Salmon
Day 1
Today I passed a shad,
on his way to Prince William Sound.
He protested that I go downstream.
But to the current he is bound.

Day 2
I encountered...

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Categories: adventure, fish, humor, humorous,
Form: Personification
Crucifish
The fish is a creature cold and wet
Hooked by line and trawled by net,
Easy to catch and yummy to eat
Fried in oil or seared by...

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Categories: allegory, life, nature, fish,
Form: Personification
The Fisherman and the Mermaid
THE FISHERMAN AND THE MERMAID

A young fisherman berthed in Penzance
Went ashore one fine night to a dance
He woke up on his boat
With a mermaid afloat
The...

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Categories: fish, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Big Brown Bear
big strong furry brown
fishing for salmon with paws~
prancing through flowers   




Date Written: 4/12/2022

3 Place 

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Wild Animal Haiku Poetry Contest Haiku poetry form only.     Sponsored...

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Categories: fish, fishing, flower, humor,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Haiku Kvf
koi pond quietude
values and tones of zen stones
find repose and peace...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fish, garden, nature, peace,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry