Metaphor Fishing Poems

Like fisherman caught
Using earthworm as live bait,
Catch fish through its mouth....

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Agile fishes in the lake,
    the man absorbed on the bank:
     fishing fish or poetry?...

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A chambered shell 
with each a secret Lie. 
Memory dwells spiraling 
down deep and only the Infinity 
knows what is kept in each. 
A secret...

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buried underground
dreamer worm anxiously waits
catch fish in the sea...

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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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Safe Harbor
by Michael R. Burch

for Kevin N. Roberts

The sea at night seems
an alembic of dreams—
the moans of the gulls,
the foghorns’ bawlings.

A century late
to be melancholy,
I...

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Wind is swinging boat, it’s frail
on a shoulder of a wave,
Stranger’s bored in it, thoughts sail
full of laziness, they save
idleness, he wants no sailing
And he...

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"Catch and Release"

To some folk who love fishing, it's PATH of the heart,
Though it's true not all fish can be saved in this way,
The occasional...

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The fish know I’m coming

Turtles line the logs
Swans parade in pre-game frenzy
Geese honk from the cheep seats
Muskrat groundskeepers tend the “field”
Bullfrog-voiced announcers “harrumph” the goings...

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Fished all day not a red herring on the line               ...

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I’m an All-Star at bottling emotions,
I run around my court dribbling emotions
onto paper. Ball hogging my sensitivities,
no one has ever been able to catch me..
I’m...

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