Best Mackerel Poems

mackerel pudding
	mackerel cake
		mackerel pie for goodness sakes!

mackerel blinds
	mackerel drapes
		mackerel ice cream on chocolate cakes.

mackerel poems
	mackerel words.
		mackerel now sounds rather absurd.


mackerel dogs
	mackerel cats.
		mackerel quilts made by a skittish old bird....

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"A Mackerel Sky" 

shadows like sun 
dance across 
an ocean of tears

salt for the stinging
walking on clouds
with the Fisher King, 

as if in school 
in the swim of things 
fishing nets for love

all in the eye 
of the beholder
wisdom like pearls

sown, 
an inevitable plant, 
pregnant...

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feasting gulls gather
on a lip of cockled sand
mackerel mourning...

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It was my much despised dish
But I ate it with relish,
Because of a granted wish
To be served Mackerel Fish
And treated to a glimpsed quiche
But that was rather childish
To a friend acting British
All of a sudden snobbish
And I hated q wished fish
Like Devout Christians Hashish...

Then, I'd...

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Each time, he clumsily drank,
Rapidly shrank:
Increasing glasses of burning whisky
He knew was risky.
Then, twice ‘Pitiless Rum’ he tried
And up he dried
A mackerel, from head-to-tail fried!

Like a plant to soon wilt
At a stand still; did tilt…

Now, exceedingly poor,
His company forcing on a family of four,
He had...

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