Best Fish Poems
Below are the all-time best Fish poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of fish poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Wish For Fish and a Dolphins SwishA 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
It's 'Oh Fish Eel' - 'Fish N Chips' For AndreaIt CAN be ‘fish n chips’ stop carping on, there’s no plaice for rudeness!
It's so sad to see a person out of their depths...
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Categories:
conflict, fish, food, poetry,
Form:
Monoku
Fish FlirtingA yellow-tailed angelfish
flashed his tail at me.
His shimmering skin was all aglow,
as he wiggled his fins and waved hello....
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Categories:
fish, humor,
Form:
Quatrain
Pointing To the ProblemsPOINTING 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
Do You Remember MeThey 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:
I do not know?
Feast of the Beast: Jan Allison and Lin LaneThe 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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Categories:
cat, fish,
Form:
Rhyme
The Fisherwoman - For ContestA 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 SalmonDay 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
CrucifishThe 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 MermaidTHE 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
Big Brown Bearbig strong furry brown
fishing for salmon with paws~
prancing through flowers
Date Written: 4/12/2022
3 Place
Howmanysyllables.com
Wild Animal Haiku Poetry Contest Haiku poetry form only. Sponsored...
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Categories:
fish, fishing, flower, humor,
Form:
Haiku
SardinesThrough the water they glide,
an immense mosaic of millions of silvery fish
on their migratory run,
obeying a call immemorial,
a mystery of aquatic...
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Categories:
fish, imagery, journey, life,
Form:
Imagism
Koi Ponda lazy stream
meanders
under
sullen
midday sun
beneath a rustic
wooden bridge
regal koi fish
ride
ceremoniously
humbled
glistening
glittering
rippling
gentle flowing waves
Published in my photo/poetry book ~KOI POND~ 2020
AP: Honorable...
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Categories:
fish, nature, summer, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Haiku Kvfkoi pond quietude
values and tones of zen stones
find repose and peace
8/9/2018
Haiku Captcha Contest
Sponsor: Harry Horsman...
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Categories:
fish, garden, nature, peace,
Form:
Haiku
Why I Believe In EvolutionYou, skinny dipping,
is making each fish desire
to become a man....
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Categories:
animal, beauty, desire, fish,
Form:
Senryu
Rainbow Scales Beckon MeGoing inward
Receiving moments of grace
While time unfolds
Touching your heart with my breath
An expansion
Doorways to enter
Each gift revealed through my willingness
Vulnerability my partner
Coaxing me towards unimagined...
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Categories:
fish, appreciation, beauty, childhood, dad,
Form:
Free verse
Sunriseocean of abstract
wildlife feed under moonlight~
starlet sun rises
8/17/2020
Is a Premiere Poetry Contest H I - K U Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...
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Categories:
fish, ocean,
Form:
Haiku
I Am the Blue MarlinI AM THE BLUE MARLIN*
I was made
To venture undulating time
And chase the tides forever facing forward
Through glinting waves by unknown...
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Categories:
environment, fish, imagery, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
- Haiku X 187 - Seagull -seagull scream and waves
...
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Categories:
bird, fish, sea, sun,
Form:
Haiku
Fishing Adventure "Fishing Adventure"
fishing is a sport of supreme relaxation
beneath golden Sun with great anticipation
while warm water is quiet
fish feast on worm diet
as...
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Categories:
adventure, fish,
Form:
Limerick
They Don'T Bite Like They Used ToHe sat there in his fav'rite chair, a blanket 'cross his lap
And covering his snow white hair was his old fishing cap.
I knew...
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Categories:
fish, father, nostalgia, social, dad,
Form:
Rhyme
The ReefThe unceasing roar
Surf and coral,
hitting the shore
This underwater show
This blaze of colour,
roar of surf.... so
Coral reef home,
so many fish,
blue sea foam,
this is my wish............
This living...
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Categories:
fish, adventure, peace, blue, sea,
Form:
Bio
From Our Deck-Front In DecemberFrom
our pink deck with a Jarra cocktail table-set
We sit awaiting sunset with an
‘Hawaiian absence’ of seagulls
As dusk comes with violet echoes
across...
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Categories:
fish, absence, boat, culture, december,
Form:
Free verse
In a Melting World
The Inuit call the Narwhal the one that points to the sky,
Because of...
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Categories:
animal, fish, nature, water,
Form:
Verse
Haiku - Into the Blue
in the deep blue
the boat lay tilted to one side-
...
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Categories:
blue, boat, fish, sea,
Form:
Haiku