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

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

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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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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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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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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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Salmon Run

A flurry of reds emerges distorted from the river;
As the Sockeye Salmon return from the ocean,
Following the scent of their home stream water,
Swimming upstream to the place of their birth,
In this, their final act is to propagate the species.

During this migration, the salmon consume...

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Bear.....

stone clad shores
welt beneath your warmth
fir lined trees
stand silent in your presence
misted waters raise to greet a vibrant sky in jubilation

as salmon fight ferocious rapids
you
intent
listen and watch
baited breath
silent

your cumbersome claw hovers as a wieghtless mosquito
dancing hithertoo
for that oh so perfect
catch

titanium
spray
avoids your touch
end the salmon's day...

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