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Dogfish Poems - Poems about Dogfish

Premium MemberFishing

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Oh how I’m wishing that I were fishing!
I’d love to see the swishing that I’ve been missing.

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catfish
dogfish
goatfish
lizardfish
goosefish
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Categories: dogfish, environment, fish, fishing, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Iii

...LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE III

The Humpback
by Michael R. Burch

The humpback is a gullet
equipped with snarky fins.
It has a winning smile:
and when it SMILES, it wins
as miles and mil...
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Categories: dogfish, fun, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberA Jolly Fisherman

...One slushy day, a Jolly fisher fishes
a wishing well, where he knows splashy fish is.
For Princess Tricia's favourite dish is,
a plate of little squishy fresh whitefishes;
and Tricia gets all she...
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Categories: dogfish, fishing, fun, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRaindrops Descend

...Raindrops descend, puddles form,
A stream engulfed, a river is born,
A course is set, the sea to reach,
Meandering ponderously to a far off beach.

The sea reclaims its myriad young,
Kidnapped ...
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Categories: dogfish, analogy, imagery, nature, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPraise Melody

...We all progress around our day-to-day liabilities.
We were passing each other, raising other's obscenities.
Who has the grant to be in high-quality activities?

There's a tidal wave of dust, nett...
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Categories: dogfish, america, appreciation, caregiving, celebration,
Form: Political Verse



Puppy Paddle

...The pitter-patter of
puppy paws
and wagging tails
by the poolside floor,
the bravest boy
begins his dash
leaps…
splish, splash splash

The next to go took
quite a trip
went for a l...
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Categories: dogfish, dog, joy,
Form: Rhyme

A Fishy Tale

...One night an octopus said,
Those whelks should be in bed.
Said the herring to the plaice,
Would you please say grace.
"I say" said a passing whale,
"Is that kipper for sale."
There is something...
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Categories: dogfish, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

One Man and His Dogfish

...One man and his dogfish, went to deplasterise a seabed
One man, two man and his dogfish, wished he had stayed in bed, instead
One man, two man, three man, and his dogfish, went to clean a mess up  ...
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Categories: dogfish, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberKillifish

...I've got a dish of killifish
I wish to eat that silly fish
Baked, or fried in peanut oil
Roasted, dried, or let to boil.

Make me a star-gazy pie
Take me to the Catfish Fry
Lead me to the Chin...
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Categories: dogfish, animal, fish, fishing, food,
Form: Rhyme

Pastel Printed Peanuts Pronounce Pronouns Precisely

...Is the logic of a lioness the same as a dogfish? Or a display in a shop window of pretty pink kittens? Very definite is a definition of derived detail. Oh look over there. Quickly. The window in the ...
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Categories: dogfish, baby,
Form: I do not know?

Sea Life

...I'd love to live a sea life,
there's just so much to do.
It would never ever be boring,
in the deep deep ocean blue.

I could juggle with clownfish,
sunbathe with the rays,
take off with the p...
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Categories: dogfish, adventure, fish, fun, poetry,
Form: Verse

Questioning

...Trending the nude prints,
life had been dismissive,
plucking the gray hairs from brows.

Manipulating the dopamine
the body’s odour
wafted through the cluttering limbs.

Charcoal underlines t...
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Categories: dogfish, art,
Form: ABC

Aye Aye and a Mistress

...HIS   WISH   TO   STOP  ZEBRAS  FISHING

Zebras you, Xavier, want very urgently to sit real quiet,
Pound over numberless  marine  liquid  kilometers just in haste,  
Going  for every  dogfish  ca...
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Categories: dogfish, funny
Form: Acrostic

A Drunken Tale

...Over lips and through da gums
Hooked minno is going down some
Depth by depth there she sinks
Hooked a dam dogfish oh how that stinks
Pulled anchor and now drowning in rum




Tribute To Fish...
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Categories: dogfish, adventure, dedication, family, children,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberGift of the Sea

...From Scrabster harbour we set
Sea fishing we go
Off Dunnett Head
Dinghy in tow
 
A few hours we sail
To reach the spot
To hunt our catch
Check my lobster pots
 
This Pentland firth 
Flowin...
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Categories: dogfish, nature, sea, sportsfishing,
Form: Rhyme

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