Best Koi Poems

a 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 Mention 2020

Submitted on March 29, 2020 for contest STRAND CHOICE T sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 1ST

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Fury!
     Black striped and gold bands
  your ghost feet
     my shattered tongue

Oh love!
     What madness
  that fragrant flower!
     lungs as balloons with air

That Time divides:
  purple...

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Sun on still waters—
Then a sudden splash of gold
Vanishing below....

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Koi Pond
Tranquil garden dream;
orange fish surface to catch food,
trickling waters....

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Claw needed to heal
A brownish snapping turtle
Ate up Momma’s koi...

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koi swim to surface

sunlight shows their golden hue

breathe and kiss the sun

 



(February 4, 2011 Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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we koi are not normally curious about debris dumped into our pond
This time things were different
A land animal had been dumped
One of the giant land animals!

We swam closer and found a channel open
Not that close! Papa Koi chided us
"I have seen their kind before.”
He had...

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koi dress in sunlight
gray rocks, slimy, remain cold
lake knows of roundness...

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Bruce the golden koi...
the great white shark of the pond
— culling of koi fry

5/2/2018...

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Coy you are.
I saw you be a
Koi in the pond
When you swam by me.
Coiling colors
In swaying reeds...
Then a duck came,
So I ducked in the trees....

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the ruddy duck swims
turtle watches from a log
polly wogs wiggle

H-Forms Traditional Nature Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Constance La France
3/2/2022...

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A koi pond brings meditation into vogue
She slows your heartbeats as you become one
With the gorgeous gold and black fish
One of the few you are not tempted to eat
or are you?...

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           the lock uv her tress
  from her lips she with koi pulled
           predicting mine kiss


  



*japanese      ...

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koi not to be caught
fisher breathed a sullen sigh
pond veiled in lilies

8/6/2018

 captcha of my log in ; kfp  (4=f)

Poetry Contest: haiku captcha 
 Sponsored by: Harry Horsman...

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they must think I am color-blind or color-unaware
but I am aware, because I am an artist.
I am orange with black and silver markings.
how dare they call me a young emerald tree boa
what part of me is emerald? I ask defiantly....

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