Best Sardine Poems
Scuba diving, oh! what a dream
In the Gulf, amidst the Sardines
With a Florida blond
Whom I've grown to be fond
It's dark, is it all that it seems
Our dive is going oh! so super
Boo! said the nosey big Grouper
Och! do you have to be mean
To these little Sardines
Your just a big party pooper
Told of he goes in a mood
Just like a big bully should
Hey! next time take better care
To these Sardines you did scare
It's impolite, and you've been oh! so rude
Have a Sardine? :
Oh how I love to eat sardines?
Just the thought makes my face turn puce!
Gas in my tummy, they induce.
They don't go that well with baked beans.
Sandwiches made with these morsels.
Can only eat two at a time;
taken with a bit of fresh lime.
Some people eat them with mussels.
The thought of these will make some puke!
Keep it away, he will rebuke!
The smell enough to make him sneeze,
the sight of which will make him wheeze!
Put one in the microwave and nuke.
He said: "Oh my God, this is Yuke."
Steven Beesley (c) 2005-10-03
Sardine:
A sonnet that uses the redondilla form as a base. Each line has 8 syllables and the rhyme scheme may be abba cddc eeff ee or abba abba ccdd cc. It is also known as the Redondilla sonnet, the Napoleonic sonnet, or the Sonondilla.
The Sardine
(How the best laid plans
can sometimes go wrong)
The Sardine is an unusual fish,
It spends all its life in a tin
On top of a Superstore shelf
So other fishes cannot get in.
But their plan was not so ingenious
As they sooner or later found out
They left the opener on the outside
Now the Sardines cannot climb out.
01/16/18
There once was a sleek silvery sardine
Who dreamed of marrying a svelte eel queen
With his heart ever lurching,
Swimming through seaweed searching
In an olive oiled tin, he was last seen.
Peaches and pies, apples mixed with steamed rice
Come and have dinner with me tonight;
my stomach is growling, and my appetite is rising
There is nothing on the table to eat except passion fruits
That fell from the tree and sour mango cream
But tonight I have something special for you
And it will make your dream come true
Can you smell it from afar it will make your
Stomach crawls, you will keep asking for more
Until the limit is reach and your destiny is complete
I love myself more than I love me
and I will take a short trip across the turbulent sea
to examine what is happening to me, I know it very well
but only the living evidence can tell,
A giant rock is sitting in the middle of the sea
With a special symbol is pointing to the sun,
it has been there for more than a thousand year
Because an island once existed there, and legend has it
that every year the spirits of a village of people buried beneath the sea emerge from the sea and converge on the rocks to see which ship is going to dock , but every time they appear they send turbulence far and near, the wind howl and shake the trees and angry waves sprang up into the air and vomit the fish on the shore, and chased the frightened fishermen away.
Come and have dinner with me and I will tell you about the legend of the sea, I will tell you how the sardines made it to the shore and the fate of the people that remains on there. They are exchanging sardines for beans, go and get your share for the time is drawing near.