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Fish Free Verse Poems

These Fish Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Fish. These are the best examples of Free Verse Fish poems written by international poets.

Ancient Winds Of Time

Rain falls softly on the purple flower as it swings to and fro
in a field where everything blooms according to nature's will 
Steadfast and strong

Categories: analogy, freedom,

Whispers Beneath the Jade Mirror

Quote:"Lurking in stone’s shadow, quietly flows a fleeting saga of heroism. 
And I, too, swim like that koi—through stillness, I traverse time in contemplation. "

Categories: fish,

FISHING BOND WITH MY SON

By the shores of the lakes unexpected bonding
over fishing, my son and I put our hearts and 
soul’s right, while feeling solace in the nights.

Categories: emotions, fishing, forgiveness, introspection,

Sunset Sigh

Sunset Sigh

pretend it was me and not you
in love. Cupid put down his arrows,
they were aimless, anyhow -
he sees that now.

Categories: lost love,

Einstein

Once there was a young boy
who did not learn at the same pace
who did not race in the same
predictable race – while his peers
played with

Categories: art, eulogy, history, imagination,

Toward the Faraway

I travel incognito, using a name I once found
in a book of minor sorrows.
I have a longing for the sea, yet languish here
behind the wheel

Categories: poetry,

The Pier Can't Always Keep You Where It Wants You To Be

You stand with your suitcase like a buoy,
bright, bobbing in the shallows,
and I am the pier—
rooted, barnacled, smelling of old salt and rope.

You tell me

Categories: desire, fish, i miss

It Sounded Like You Were Trying To Evict The Words From Their Home On Your Tongue

I have been watering it for months—
the small black bulb in the cupboard
that I never let touch sunlight.
It swelled in the dark,
fed on steam from

Categories: anxiety, betrayal, extended metaphor,

The Killick Holds


  The calendar showed January 1899,
  there were only a few hours of real daylight
  He set out in his poor man's

Categories: boat, fish, history, life,

Dad


Even though fathers might all seem similar in some ways
They are actually all different as are cats and bears
Or even pirates and trees regardless of

Categories: change, dad, family, feelings,

Over And Under The Cuckoo's Nest

swimming
like lobotomized fish
in a psychiatric pond.

following to follow—
not following to lead.

following the leader,
following like sheep.

the pied piper
always made
such a fine shepherd
for those
who don’t 
think.

Categories: 10th grade, 11th grade,

Steady the float

Here rest my oars.
A killick thrown to the school of fishes,
To still my boat from the peering waves.
Fishy-wishy scatter as water splatters,
Like wood chips flying

Categories: boat, fish, fishing, sea,

BOXES

There they sit
Unmoved, stilled
Yet fully filled
With recorded words
A journey of sorrow, grief
Great loss...my proverbial cross
Proof that I was me

I can't bear to open
The plastic lid
Peer

Categories: memory,

TRIADE 2 Sygnus

Eagle flew over desert 
And spotted a tiny mouse.
But his flight was a height 
During dark starry night
And there wasn't worth slowing pace.


Hey Mr. Mouse

Categories: poetry,

Go Fish The Big One

Remember as a child playing cards,
Go Fish?
A child's life and fishing go together,
dreaming about catching the big one.
How big is the big one?
At what age

Categories: child, dad, fish, fun,