Dedication Fish Poems

Village by the Sea

In Bonanamo's haven, where echoes of the sea,
White sandy beaches, a cradle for dreams to be.
Glorious sunsets, a canvas painted bold,
A symphony...

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Plus Live Sharks

"The female deposits the egg, which the male fertilizes by
spraying sperm on it."
-- Day Care Lesson 1: "Fishie Sex"

*   * ...

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Your words,
a fish slap
Stun me

Not hard and not hurtful,
but shocking

An icy blow, 
padded in fleshy layers of softness

Neither shouted in ire’s voice
or sharp with disdain

Yet...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Clusters of refugee bubbles
         Expelled from the side of my tank
      ...

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Not certain that poetry
should be described as 
much as written – I mean, 
to write about a star, 
is one thing...but to absorb 
and likely...

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ANNIE ELISE REST IN PEACE DIED BY FISH GREASE

Rest in peace
Buried in this plot, Anna Elise
Occupation was fry cook
Died: burnt by hot-boil fish grease

9/18/18
Written by...

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Over the loch they glide in pairs, one thing on their mind food, hungry fledgling await the lochs delicacies,  sun gleams on the calm...

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SEAHORSES

We ride ocean currents
We are small marine fish
With segmented bony armor 
Such an upright posture, swish
A curled prehensile tail, a tubular snout 
A head and...

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in gurgling rapids
salmon jump ladders
 ~ grizzlies feasting



AP: 3rd place 2022

Submitted on April 17, 2018 for contest HAIKU: FISH sponsored by MICK TALBOT...

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THE LOBSTERMAN

Hushed silence as the dawn begins unveil 
Faded ribbons of beauty appear ever so pale
Morphing in depth and passionate splendor
Eternal, inspirational gifting of nature

The...

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Have you ever been to the Arctic
and heard the "Tickling of the Ivories"?
That is the time when the Monodons
joust each other with their singular parries.

They...

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bend and keep picking up rocks,

from the ground

have shine like gold

like ecstasy familiar

but look,

i am a golden fish

i am already in the ocean...

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Long miles of tedious journey,
Missing my darling honey.
Travelling impatiently, spend thousands of 
money, 
Hope god will bless me with ma lucky soul 
at this season.

Equatorial...

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Sitting on the creek bank pole in hand, trout line floating nearby
Listening to the wind in the trees, crickets chirping away
Birds in flight, birds on...

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