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Were We Mistakes
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Iwould Prefernotto
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fish, riddle, thank you,
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Free fish
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Timothy McGuire
| Limerick |
fish,
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Such a mystery is a fish
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Gershon Wolf
| Light Verse |
fish, silly,
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Megalodon
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W.A. CHOLT
| Tanka |
fish, mystery, nature,
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Canis Familiaris
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Richard Breese
| Limerick |
animal, dog, fish, fishing,
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What would the Ocean be like in a hundred years
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Michael Robinson
| Rhyme |
animal, creation, earth, fish,
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Haiku-kingfisher catches fish
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Anisha Dutta
| Haiku |
bird, fish,
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Been Fishing
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M. L. Kiser
| Epulaeryu |
appreciation, drink, fish, food,
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Dancing Fish
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Haxer Ling
| Free verse |
animal, fish, poetry,
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Beautiful Womb
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M. L. Kiser
| Diminished Hexaverse |
animal, appreciation, earth, fish,
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The fresh Waters of Crete
by Allan Terry
Catreus speaks of the lake in Crete
he speaks from a fools
perspective
his mouth is foolish and unwise
that these wisdoms are worded for those
who wish not to...
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Ballad |
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Categories:
easter, film, fish, moon,
Pollywogs
by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Ten tiny pollywogs
Happy as can be
Along came an alligator
Ate up three.
Seven skittish pollywogs
Beneath a lily pad
Up swam a rainbow trout
They all died sad....
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Lyric |
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Categories:
animal, death, fish, happiness,
CHILDHOOD LAMENT
by Kim Rodrigues
attracted to her fingers
and slippery as an eel
its one dead eye stares at her
— the silver dollar
lonely child spoons dirt over
the sandwich bag zippered shut
there’s...
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Dodoitsu |
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Categories:
child, death, fish,
or so
by Allan Terry
1 cups of crabmeat
1 cup of pureed shrimp
2 cups of minced goeduck snouts
1 cup of minced catfish
4 cups of mushrooms (chopped fine)
2 tablespoons of cayenne
1/2...
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Ballad |
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Categories:
fish, food, love, romantic
sticky love medallions
by Allan Terry
3/4 cups of cilantro
1 cup of chopped red onions
1/4 cup of crushed garlic
1/4 cup of chopped gingerroot
1/2 cup of celery chopped
1 cup of chopped red...
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Ballade |
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Categories:
beach, business, fish, food,
Bread Haiku
by Tom Cunningham
just five barley loaves
two small fish
fed the five thousand
Written 4th October 2018.
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Haiku |
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Categories:
fish, food, jesus, miracle,
Bobber Dips
by Timothy McGuire
that is the biggest fish
i ever caught on a cast and a wish
bobber dipped out of sight
fish put up quite a fight
but still ended up...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
fish,
Enchanting Mother Fish
by Gerald Dillenbeck
To find enchanting integrity,
She transparently confronts her disenchantments
with present and past toxic flow,
disempowering absences of synergetic experience,
like rape and enslavement and aggressive commodification,
disharmonic songs
without time...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
emotions, engagement, fish, health,
Captain Swivels Table
by Allan Terry
2 cups of grounded goeduck clam snouts( cooked, steamed)
1 cup of crab meat (claw)
3/4 cup of catfish grounded (steamed)
1 cup of whipping cream
1 cup...
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Ballade |
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Categories:
art, celebration, creation, fish,
GOLDSTONES AND A DRIED FISHERS NET
by Allan Terry
THEY CAST NET
IN THE WATERS
THE FISHES WERE
NETTED AND
WAITED HARVEST
THERE NETS WERE
TORN AND DRIED UP
AND THE FISH THEY
CAUGHT FELL BACK
INTO THE...
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Ballad |
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Categories:
clothes, england, fish, ireland,
Winter haiku 1-2-3 or 3-2-1
by Eve Roper
Winter Haiku 1-2-3 or 3-2-1
cold
frost, snow
on schedule
days
zero
below temp
shed
blend in
animals
pond
frozen
fish swimming
ice
melting
sunny day
9/21/2018
Poetry Contest: haiku 1-2-3 or 3-2-1
Sponsored by: charles messina...
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Haiku |
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Categories:
animal, fish, winter,
THE OLD FISHERMEN BY THE SEA
by Jim Yerman
THE OLD FISHERMEN BY THE SEA
They meet there every morning…every day of every year.
At the end of the pier they gather…with all their fishing gear.
Sometimes...
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Verse |
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Categories:
fish, fishing,
Six-Word Couplet Series Encore
by Jo Daniel
JONAH'S ADVENTURE
Ran to Tarshish
Now, inside fish
DEVOUT JONAH
Three whole days
Inside, Jonah prays
FISH VOMIT
God ordered fish
Fulfilled God's wish
JONAH TURNS OBEDIENT
Went to Nineveh
Preached God's...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
bible, fish,
parsecs deux amore'
by Allan Terry
6 cups of smashed white beans
skins removed
2 cups of heavy cream
4 tablespoons of crushed garlic
7 cups of chicken stock
1/2 cup of chopped green onions
2 cups...
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Ballad |
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Categories:
art, desire, fish, food,
dankle dinkle do
by Allan Terry
2 yucca roots peeled and diced
3 quarts of boiling salted water
add roots, when softened
remove from water
and smash them while they are hot
allow to cool
measure two...
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Classicism |
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Categories:
fish, appreciation, business, celebration, character,
don't leave me baby
by Allan Terry
6 fillets of sea bass
cup of melted butter
2/3 cup of flour
(7 tablespoons of cornmeal) (seasoned)
dash of cayenne pepper
sprinkle fish in cayenne, coat...
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Chant Royal |
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Categories:
desire, encouraging, fish, food,
Have you ever dated an electric eel
by Timothy McGuire
Have you ever dated an electric eel?
You'll never forget the way it feels,
If you roll with an eel in the sack,
Brace yourself for that electric...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
fish, love,
Need for theater
by Allan Terry
which is concerned
might convey
the necessity
and in it's
urgency of it's need
to coney these
thoughts
as concerns to
vocalize the
need of proper
means of having
words...
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Ballad |
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Categories:
fish, anti bullying, art, creation,
Human Aquarium
by Debjani Mitra
A silo water casket ...
scintillates glow
Green sea-weed blanket. ..
bright red and yellow.
Pebbles and gravel.. .
in a crystalline show.
Fizzing of bubbles. .
the aquatic-air combo.
A vista...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
analogy, caregiving, fish, life,
Koi
by Brianna Hobson
I need perfume to the cover up
the smell of my desperation
and my insect decomposition
Fish out of water
what's right and what's wrong is
between my legs
I...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
animal, emotions, fish, growth,