Losing Face
One may see puffins and parrots
any hour of the week
both birds bear a big colourful beak
the former pelagic feed on fish
and live in large colonies on coastal cliffs
tho' monogamous collectively breed as a bunch
but with renown as the Atlantic sea clown
in Iceland several are served as lunch
the latter arboreal primarily frugivorous
toco being by far the...
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Categories:
fish, bird, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
The Dance Of Nature
Categories:
beauty, dance, fish, nature,
Form: Haiku
Fish out of waterI wonder who I’ll be when alone
A salmon spent on Lagunitas creek
A giving tree robbed of it nuts
A sunset rooster with no eggs
When your chick has flown the nest
Even if for a summer vacation
Who’ll give you meaning when life is fallow?
Who will you be when your seed is in college?
Will you be a cobweb at...
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Categories:
fish, animal, birth, child, death,
Form: Free verse
Hungry Bearbear wading in the stream
bear grabs a jumping salmon
bear feeds his hunger
...
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Categories:
animal, fish, fishing, food,
Form: Haiku
Fishes
in aquatic world
peaceful, shimmering fins glide
mysteries await
by Zyrool
30/6/25
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Categories:
fish,
Form: Haiku
Over Calm SeasImage #5
Over calm seas the sun does rise
Far away and seeming so small
Truth is where our perspective lies
Over calm seas
One of the largest of them all;
Sea creature with bandits disguise
The sun balancing like a ball
So deceived by fallible eyes
This whale makes the sun rise and fall
Painting red, orange, yellow skies
Over calm seas
...
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Categories:
fish, image, nature,
Form: Roundel
Tasty Morsels
Tasty morsels may swim by
I’ll just duck down and check it out
Instead, a big fish I do spy
Tasty morsels.
Although this looks like a brown trout
Or maybe it is a walleye
They’re far to big I have no doubt.
I’ll take a breath and then retry
If nothing’s there, I’ll go without
I...
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Categories:
fish,
Form: Roundel
Getting Chummy“Doo-doo, doo-doo,” we hear the beast coming.
Music gets under our skin. The worst of attacks,
narrated by the boat’s captain. Unsettling sink
of the USS Indianapolis. Just below the hull,
a giant life wanting to strike a blow. This boat
a smaller target. Getting chummy, stomachs
lurching. Baited by grimmer details. A solid blow
to the vessel. All hands on deck...
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Categories:
fear, fish, humor, sound,
Form: Free verse
The Bear Necessities
Two hungry bears are poised to fight
Razor sharp claws, like daggers drawn
One stole a fish, theft is not right
Two hungry bears
They’d stalked brown trout since early dawn
They’re ravenous, and that’s their plight
Last trout had swum upstream to spawn
A tasty trout bears love to bite
But now all the fresh fish have gone
No wonder both are so...
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Categories:
conflict, fish, food,
Form: Roundel
Love Can Be Grand - POTD
In spring we come out to see life,
out from our long cold winter's nap.
Bears are so loving not wildlife.
Love can be grand.
I am your big fun bear asap,
you are my fury playful wife,
I love to see you in gift-wrap.
Tonight we need some fun nightlife,
eating fish not from a flytrap,
using my big claws not a knife,
Love...
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Categories:
animal, fish, fun, love,
Form: Roundel
Summer by the Pondlazy languid pond
dragonflies search for next meal
bullfrogs croak for mates
...
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Categories:
fish, nature, summer,
Form: Haiku
A Fish Tale
A fish popped out of the lake
from his scales the water he done shaked
looked at me, curiously, wondering, “Is he awake?”
Well, I was still as a...
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Categories:
fish, fishing, school, smart,
Form: Rhyme
Scuba in Aruba“Failure is an option, but fear is not.” —James Cameron
stuff into your wetsuit
strap on your BCD
from your regulator take two sips
excited you should be
we’re gonna scuba
in Aruba
(did you say Cuba?)
I said Aruba
stare at the horizon
big step into the fray
double fist tap o’er your head
shows them you’re...
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Categories:
adventure, fish, nature, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
fish caviar versus ant egg caviarCaviar is fish eggs and I think so blobbish and ugly
Squishy and squirmy looking; they do not tempt me
Mexican caviar is supposedly ant eggs, definitely not free
How they capture ant eggs, I really do not fathom or see....
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Categories:
fish, food,
Form: Rhyme
Water-Borne
Seen as a collection of spare parts
swimming in close formation
neither fish nor fowl
from a southern hemisphere nation
sewn together as if torn asunder
the amphibian antipodean
from way Down Under
is the odd-looking bottom-feeding
no muss nor fuss
otter-footed beaver-tailed
egg-laying duck-billed platypus
the males of which are venomous
an excellent swimmer
whenever it dives
it closes its ears nose and eyes
altho' a riparian carnivore
electroreception is...
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Categories:
fish, animal, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Fish Poems
Definition | What is Fish in Poetry?
Poems Related to Fish
troll, trawl, angle, chum, extricate, bob, cast, produce, bait, net, extract, find, pull out, seine, bait the hook, go fishing, haul out, cast one's hook, cast one's net,