History Fish Poems

Along the harbor shores at Gammel Strand
where other costumed fishwives ply their trade,
I trudge along the cobbled Danish dock
and barter with the catch to earn...

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Dribbling

If someone continually gets knocked down
Eventually they will give up the ghost
If around every corner is more negativity
Which of us has lost the most?

Started to...

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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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rock the boat -
don’t mind the shark.
great white,
under the moon.
deep, dark mystery;
history
of you.
fishing chum -
right pale.
lover’s flesh,
intertwined.
your eyelids kissing,
missing - nervous twinges,
   ...

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we eat red meat, fish, eggs 
and plants for food

we cut down trees to build our homes

in the twenty first century
history may look upon us...

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The leaves were turning red and gold;
And frost was in the air.
When they rounded up the Acadians,
From Miquelon and Saint Pierre.

It was a time for...

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Scales hardened over her skin
a condition called ichthyosis vulgaris

ik-thee-O-sis vul-Ga-ris

fish disease

(the ‘vulgar’ means ordinary
but at its worst
it is far from common).

She bled where the plaques...

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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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Five thousand people gathered at the Sea of Galilee
Following Jesus, miracles hoping to see
Jesus asked His disciples"Where shall we buy bread for these people to...

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Numerous number systems beyond the real:
complex numbers, octonions, omnions which can eat whole black holes.
It's axiomatic that your personal history, preferences, how you feel
account for...

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Have some fun.
Presentation of self.
Afterlife functional illusion.

If your memories don't heart attack or cancer out
or from traffic accident
who will effortlessly flush them out?

You must give...

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Heads Of Fish And State

Little old man in his eighties holds fish heads to his side
Gently nestled under the arm
Tightly wrapped in newspapers
They won’t last...

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she builds better butterfly's from the dust on rusting pipes
they fly in the starry sky while i cry
in a panic she paints them into a...

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The dual ships? I traced the history
Noah's "NAWAI" and the TITANIC, are not, one's story

The words on "proposal vs disposal" reads, God's acts of marry...

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all the reptiles gathered round

when elmer the frog hopped to town

never was history

croaked with such boastful glee

till from his pad he fell and drowned.
...

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