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Best Fishes Poems

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Premium Member A Lonely Ruin
Etched in my soul
is the peace of a lonely ruin,
an old chapel on the skull
of a hill surrounded by pastureland
and wind-swept trees.
Below a lake stretches...

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Categories: fishes, hope, life,
Form: Free verse



An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle 
Of beer,          ...

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Categories: fishes, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Food Inglorious Food
Be it known as convenience food, junk food or munchies;
whether spicy, melt-in-your-mouth soft, or crunchy,
food, inglorious food, seduces with ease
and ensnares with the emptiest of...

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Categories: fishes, food,
Form: Couplet
All On a Summers Eve
The screen door droops lazily, slightly ajar
Crickets croon lullabies, heard from afar
Kid’s sticky faces, betray ice-cream bars
All on a summers eve

Legs peel off chairs, from...

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Categories: fishes, nature, sea, seasons, uplifting
Form: Rhyme
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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Categories: fishes, cat, fish,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Bit of Humour To Kick Start the Week
FRED THE PERV.

Kinky Fred stole knickers off the line
One summer night his haul totalled nine
His spree ended in tears
Got an extra ten years
When Judge Sue...

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Categories: fishes, humor,
Form: Limerick
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: fishes, people, social, parents, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heave Ho and Yo Ho Ho
There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
...

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Categories: fishes, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Through the Backwaters
Boated through the tantalizing Kerala backwater
                   ...

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Categories: fishes, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse
Sometime Instead of Pink I Like Red
Sometime instead of pink, I like Red 
Sometime instead of playing with children, 
I want to go on date 

Sometime instead of Fishes, I like...

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Categories: fishes, boyfriend, change, feelings, girl,
Form: Free verse
Timberland Glade
The valley is hushed before daybreak,
until the animals awake.

Fawns snuggle for warmth against their mothers
beneath leaves of aspen trees, 
dappled in dawn's pale light.

In thicket...

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Categories: fishes, nature,
Form: Terza Rima
The Ravishing Rain
Drizzling, dazzling
splinters of diamond
          Shards of crystal
or  liquidized glass!
      Transparent drops
from a translucent sky. 

       Ooh, that lucid lustre:
No wonder they say,
there's something sexy about...

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Categories: fishes, rain,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Ebony Sea
Swift nibbles, tentative licks 
     small diamonds of broken moonlight
          on ebony...

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Categories: fishes, dark, death, emotions, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mores of Morays
Why would God give moray eels
A life wherein they live concealed
In a beautiful, bountiful, rapturous reef
Merely to cause the nearby fishes grief?
When the moon and...

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Categories: fishes, analogy, evil, perspective, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Let Me Become You, Indigenous
Let me hug you, human, and be one being,
Let the stars shine and go for sightseeing,
Let us share smiles under the moon,
Let our children play...

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Categories: fishes, change, community, culture, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme

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