Best Salmon Poems

Declining the urge to go with the flow I swim upstream,

 there to spawn and hatch countless dreams which freely

     flow and then disperse in the vast ocean of my life.


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Contest: Any Birthday Poem
Sponsor: Laura Loo
Written on my birthday:
16th February, 2016

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The amber skein of autumn leaves,

embanks the tumbling torrent

of the splendid forest stream.

 

A salmon homes to lay its roe.

Follow her, as she curvets

the swollen falls and rasping stones....

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Like a Grizzly bear looking intently
    from the rivers rocky crest
          I hunger for the first bite 
               of...

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Salmon steak or fillet
Choose fillet or salmon
steak
Either way I can get it
Is alright with me

I enjoy a salmon steak 
Cooking on the barbecue
Or the fillet is tasty to
Either way I enjoy it

Salmon from a can
Is handy to have
For a salad bowl
Or making salmon
  patties...

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salmon leaping high
up the waterfalls to spawn
sadly then you die...

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born to return home

    no escaping destiny

         a brutal journey ahead

              all to procreate

       ...

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fish
Salmon HAIKU ©

Salmon swim up stream
Battling against being killed
Womanlike she fights! 

Didee...

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The journey upstream,
A chance to deliver life;
Swimming to the death....

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inland 
crimson instinct 
natal streams beckon home 
from the great turning wheel they come 
bears wait...

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Once upon a time,
there lived a curious boy. He had a dream
of becoming the happiest man
in the world.

"When will I be the happiest man
in the world?" he asked
an old fisherman.

The reply was in form of a parable.

"Take a look at a salmon. It does not...

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Lessons to learn from you, oh Salmon
    great fish!, strong navigator; 
 How highly focused you are, attaining
    your goals oh great curator. 
 Moving and strong currents do not deter
    your maternal instinct;
 Aware that...

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Frothing, frigid fjords
Fling forth fine stippled
Salmon, streaking upstream.
Roe-rich fish, flashing
Fat and fulgent:
Spurred to spawn, to spurt
Then sputter -- spasmodic.
Spectral. Unspared....

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The Rhine Salmon Complaint, Translation of Etiemble’s Complainte d’un salmon du Rhin

						For Yvon Belaval
(A lilting musical poem of varying line length in quatrains with a refrain and much internal
 rhyming; end-rhyme scheme: alternate rhymes in succession: abab or in aabb and abba…)

   The...

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bear wading in the stream
     bear grabs a jumping salmon          
          bear feeds his hunger...

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cubs getting hungry
salmon swimming up the stream
easy catch for bear...

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