No wish to carp or cock a snook
I won't leave you in the lurch
but oh my cod take a look
what a plaice to perch
as just for the halibut
putting seahorses out to paddock
is enough to give one
a severe bad haddock
so no red herring I don't flounder around
take a peeled eel flake of baked hake
plus pinch of pickled pilchard
and an ichthyic sandwich make
but if my words are vitriolic
you may grunt and kiss my bass
it's all a load of pollock(s)
Categories:
flounder, fish, humorous, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
I've never been a groupie, and I never ever shall be.
They mindlessly follow, no thought of their own.
They think what they're told, then call it the truth,
But I can't follow, I must think, no matter the cost.
But when I say what I think, they cry out, they resist.
If I try to explain, it only gets worse, they can't hear me.
They're comfortable in that place of absolute knowing.
While I flounder in the realm of wonder, forever thinking.
Categories:
flounder, identity, introspection,
Form: Verse
I found a flounder,
fifty pounder!
iin my vegetable stew.
He ate my carrots.
He ate my peas.
And he ate my broccoli, too.
I like my flounder,
my sixty pounder!
I think you'd like him, too.
He ate my tatters.
He ate my beans.
And now he weighs seventy-two!
So if you hate to eat your vegetables,
look closely in your stew.
there just might be a flounder there,
eating your veggies for you.
.
Categories:
flounder, kids, humor,
Form: Rhyme
While you are floundering there on the beach
A whole ocean lies just out of your reach.
What could have brought you into this sad state?
Are there not tide pools still in your purview?
Eyes that migrated till on the same side,
You have to lie flat in order to hide,
And thus camouflaged still view surroundings,
Evolution's quite strange way to be kind.
Were you not gifted with intelligence,
Or is your plight simply self-indulgence
Of a kind that's hell-bent on your ruin?
Why search for your answers on desert sand?
Depression, friend, may be deep, dark, and cool,
But its temptations can't very long fool
You into thinking you don't need to breathe.
Out of water, the air can't give you air.
Is there no one who's in love with your rhyme,
None who appreciates your gift of time,
No gifting from Heaven, just tears from Hell?
You just need rest, you're far from rock bottom.
Categories:
flounder, depression,
Form: Rhyme
I am Flounder, wild and young.
I flap my fins and love to have fun.
And sometimes when I eat bad algae,
I make the water a little bit bubbly!
Categories:
flounder, funny,
Form: Clerihew
second best turned out
to be my first. i'm as
happy as mint tea.
Categories:
flounder, hope, life, love,
Form: Senryu