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Best Fish Tank Poems

Below are the all-time best Fish Tank poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of fish tank poems written by PoetrySoup members


Tropical Fish Tank
What a lovely sight it is to see all the fish in there
Wonderful creatures swimming about everywhere
Large ones and small ones graceful as they move
They...

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Categories: fish tank, petsfish, food,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Fish Tank
bright eyes swinging tail
spirit inside as a whale
all the feels gray gills...

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Categories: fish tank, animal, fish,
Form: Haiku
Fish Tank Universe
Fish tank universe

Here we all are 
Planets and galaxies
Solar systems
Stars in this infinite jar
So big we can’t travel it all
Tinted glass no one can see...

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© Cat Gatti  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fish tank, how i feel, life,
Form: Blank verse
Cleaning Solution
Sticky smears on the table top.
on the couch spilled soda pop
one chewed up shoe and one flip-flop
I’m doomed to clean this mess non-stop
  ...

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Categories: fish tank, funny, life,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Sit Beside Me In Silence
Why don't we escape 
         all the chaos
    in this noisy world?
  ...

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Categories: fish tank, appreciation, introspection, silence, solitude,
Form: Free verse



"just Four Walls"
I took the pictures down and folded all the clothes...
The carpet seems new where the couch used to sit...
A freshly painted outline used to hide...

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Categories: fish tank, lost lovehalloween,
Form: Free verse
Things I Never Thought I'D Hear Myself Say
Things I never thought I'd hear myself say
Back before my kids were born
Why is my toothbrush in the microwave?
And why is my recliner full of...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fish tank, funny
Form: Rhyme
Mom's Attempt At the Garden of Eden
1.
Mom 
kept the  perch 
we caught in a bucket.

And when we took them home
She would clean and place them
In our twenty gallon tank
Where they...

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Categories: fish tank, animals, childhood, family, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Child Once More
Wouldn't it be wonderful to wake up one morning
To find you were still a child
So much energy jumping up and down upon your bed
So many...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fish tank, adventure, child, childhood, fun,
Form: Couplet
My Shed
A ball of twine, a washing line
A bag of peat, an old dust sheet
A rope
Some wire
An old flat tyre
A roller-skate, a garden gate

Some dry grass...

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Categories: fish tank, funny, old, garden, old,
Form: List
Premium Member A Cat's Life
In a cat's life.We get a rubber mouse, 
a shoe string, or a butterfly to play with.
In a cat's life.We get names like Sylvester, 
Felix,...

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Categories: fish tank, cat, pets,
Form: Ballade
Typically Luke Poem 16 - a Smashing Time
I found Luke an old golf club
And several shiny golf balls
That will keep him quite for a while
While I make a few phone calls

Smash, went...

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Categories: fish tank, children, kids, funny, grandson,
Form: Rhyme
Bedlam
Why not drown in this wave-like illusion
And so simply blind what they call meaning 
From any meaning whatsoever.
Swim in a whirlpool of meaninglessness?
Floating objects are...

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Categories: fish tank, confusion, introspectionfish,
Form: Free verse
Typically Luke Poem 9 - What a Mess
This room is in an awful state
Someone couldn't care less
How could anybody live this way
Such a terrible mess
 
Wallpaper hangs from the walls
A wardrobe is...

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Categories: fish tank, children, kids, grandson, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Emmj
Peas in the laundry
Skates on the stairs
Car keys in the trash
(put there on a dare)
Raisins in the carpet
Cheerios in the john
Nail polish on the dog
Laundry...

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Categories: fish tank, children, funny, games, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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