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Best Goldfish Poems

Below are the all-time best Goldfish poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of goldfish poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Ode To a Goldfish
Have you ever sat while deep in thought,
on a brand new toilet seat that you just bought?
Maybe you wondered and felt despair,
about that poor little...

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Categories: goldfish, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member This Klutz For Hire
I’ve picked it up a hundred times
yet dropped it just once more
So I give up, the blasted thing
can lay there on the floor

And stepping out...

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Categories: goldfish, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sit Beside Me In Silence
Why don't we escape 
         all the chaos
    in this noisy world?
  ...

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Categories: goldfish, appreciation, introspection, silence, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Running Out of Ideas Is Impossible
Running out of ideas?
That is impossible if you have a:
friend
acquaintance
neighbor
co-worker
boss
president
king
queen
TV set
I-pad
I-phone
I-pod
kangaroo
chicken
donkey
toilet paper
monopoly
dictionary
thesaurus
computer
outside
inside
dog 
cat
dresser
drum set
sibling
diary
father
mother
siblings
dragon
butterfly
unicorn
dawn
sky
stars
cosmos
moon
nemesis
goldfish
talent
team
plate
fork
spoon
blanket
bed
sun
moon
stars
spiders web
wasp
bathroom
kitchen
holiday
cousins
grandma
grandpa
car
truck
broom
dustpan
plane
bedroom
child
grand child
brain
imagination
love
life
ufo
or
space aliens...

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Categories: goldfish, write,
Form: List
Premium Member Face
I walk through the life of silent dreams
A museum of sorts
I passed by my reflection
Not a mirror in site
I was horrified
As I stared into my...

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Categories: goldfish, art, bereavement, imagery, introspection,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member How To Give a Cat a Pill
1) Pick up the cat and cradle it in the crook of your arm as if holding a baby. Position forefinger and thumb on either...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goldfish, cat,
Form: Free verse
Worming the Cat and Dog
Once again it’s Saturday; the day when footy reigns supreme.
The Dogs are up against the Cats, the premier favoured team,
but I’ve got no doubts the...

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Categories: goldfish, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Red Balloon
Dad can I have that big red balloon?
There's only one left, and he'll sell it soon
It's not like a goldfish, it won't have to be...

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Categories: goldfish, childhood, family, father, growing
Form: Rhyme
The One That Got Away
Was cleaning my goldfish bowl
in the bathroom one day,
put "Goldie" in the bathroom
sink temporarily to play,

Tried to hurry so I could
put her back in the...

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Categories: goldfish, fish, humor,
Form: Light Verse
What If a Bedtime Poem For Kids
What If?

What if guppies and goldfish could swim through the air?
What if birds could only relax by sitting in a chair?

What if spider webs looked...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goldfish, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Say Something Funny
Sir ! say something funny , the little boy said .
'Cause Mom is now dying and Daddy is dead .
Grandad has piles and he can't...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goldfish, family, funny, parody, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Girl With the Red Parasol
Pretty girl in pink dress, was fair with curly hair, 
Her red parasol was open, though sun wasn't there.

	Sitting on rocks, she gazed at sea...

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Categories: goldfish, girl, sea, wind,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Thor's Cave
In a small village in the green valleys of the Peak District, Sarah gave birth to a son, after a decade of trying for a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goldfish, allusion, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Shy
Coconut shy at Reece Fair...
Auntie Margaret is sure she'll win this time.


A shy goldfish travels home
in ornate container.





4/14/2015...

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© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goldfish, fun,
Form: Free verse
A Painting of Words
Let the paper be a canvas and the pen, a brush
The words fill  the mind like a young girl’s blush
Every color on the palette...

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Categories: goldfish, art, imagination, on writing
Form: Pastoral

Book: Shattered Sighs