Fishingdown went the bobber
set the hook and don’t panic
reel it in ~ fish fry!
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Categories:
boat, fish, fishing, fun,
Form: Senryu
Observing Nature's Beautylong tree limbs stretching
over gurgling brook flowing
minnows are dashing
I sit on the bank
observing nature’s beauty
a calming moment
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Categories:
beauty, fish, nature, peace,
Form: Senryu
Read All About It
I can't bring myself
to read the front page news
with which they string us along
as portrayed by the views
of those with a vested interest
or the rest with an axe to grind
who must think we're all
just deaf dumb and blind
to the truth of which there's more
in the speech balloons
of the funny characters
in the Sunday cartoons
it's all a...
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Categories:
fish, how i feel, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Hobnobbing With The Hoi Polloi
With a stiff upper lip and old school tie
still it's just not cricket
but the upper crust they say
are on a sticky wicket
to pay the estate or make ends meet
they have conducted tours
of stately homes safari parks
and the family jewels
we used to go to Scarborough Southend-on-Sea
Bognor Brighton Blackpool
have fish 'n' chips for tea
but now for fifty...
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Categories:
drink, fish, food, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Ground Clouds and Fish SmazeA mackerel sky fillets a fish scaled village,
an ear clapping, full sailed, fog
moors itself to the rooftops,
then hides all in a breezeless blear.
Rheumy eyes peep out from nets,
damp noses sniff abaft trawling drapes.
Cloth in hand, potbellied proprietors
battle the splatter and spray,
dabbing at mildewed shelves,
warding away slopping waders
and salty puddles.
On the sightless sea
far beyond the shore...
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Categories:
fish, poetry,
Form: Free verse
And The Cat Crept In
Motion-activated caught on camera
while cookies for the kids I was cooking
a collared cat crept into the kitchen
when I stepped outside and wasn't looking
his potty break was well-timed
as, sadly, I'd left the door unlocked
onto the counter by the sink he climbed
bared his butt and crapped in the crock
tho' he gave new meaning
to vanilla chocolate chip
if I...
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Categories:
animal, cat, fish, food,
Form: Rhyme
Dear God - I'm HeartbrokenI remember when I got them
They were only five days old
Their lips were big, and their eyes were small
And their tails were Orangie/gold
I used to feed them twice a day
Once in the morning and once at night
And when it was time for them to go to bed
I would turn...
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Categories:
child, fish, girl,
Form: Rhyme
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about Winter 1Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about winter, snow, snowball, home, fire, children, fun, frost, hail, fish, ice fishing.
The year’s first snowfall;
such happiness to be
at home in my hut.
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Fire-making friend,
let me show you something grand:
a huge snowball!
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Written for Basho’s dear friend Sora, who...
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Categories:
children, fire, fish, fun,
Form: Haiku
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
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,