Best Squids Poems

You knew I was angry

As we walked apart, along Spadina
Through the pungent summer air of Chinatown
Past the various sea creatures, dried or iced
And fruits I...

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A is for algae, red, green, blue cells, soaking up sun, sliming teeth 
B is for bacterial mat, clumping underneath, earliest born, never asleep

C is...

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In hushed whispers, Mariners told stories,
           Of a octopus like cephalopod creature;
With a tentacled beak...

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Said a Cod to a wise old Eel,
I would like to know how you feel?
Though people snack on dips,
Lots more eat fish and chips.
They say...

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smell of baby squids
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Gregor the slowest
Felt nothing but fear
To prove he was worthy
He must kill a deer
A great giant bat
Was chasing him far
He ran and he ran
Towards that...

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I spent my youth in that patch of wood,
And they were my warmest years.
And me and the trees understood,
That one day I would go to...

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Dad is long gone now - nearly twenty years.
I still see his face with the deep lines etched
at the corners of his mouth from the...

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Oh, Penguin, how can you stand

In this dark and frozen land

Eating from the same old dish

Squishy Squids and finny fish

From the freezing depths you fly

Up...

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The sea holds the sauce of life,
 the squiggly-wiggleys of delight.

The shells on shore inspire insight
cooks in kitchens steam on summer nights.

Filling pasta pots with...

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Kids are funny
Funny like me
Funny to see
But kids are not squids
Nor katydids,
And
Squids are not bunnies
Katydids don’t like honey
While kids are chummy
With you
And me
And he
And she!

A...

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Sometimes when it comes to love its like being at the bottom of a lake
Find myself holding my breath even though the water is fake
The...

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As I lie still and wait my soul to rest
Unwelcome  darkness pulling down my eyelids
In double spaces, horizontal in my chest
A beating heart is...

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I’m not sure
I have the strength anymore
To be discovered

Stepping into the cold black lake of February
Clopping to work in frozen slop
Snow snarling at my ankles

Car...

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aquarium seas
tuna whales sharks dolphins squids
ride wave vehicles...

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