Herring Poems

List of New Poems

PM	Poem Title	Poet	Form	Form	Categories
	50 Words for Poe: Strangelove	Lady Labyrinth	Free verse	Free verse	herring, adventure, freedom, fun,
	Carnival of Cannibals and Crabs	Anthony Slausin	Rhyme	Rhyme	herring, abuse, dark, life,
	To Heal A Vacant Heaven	Gregory R Barden	Free verse	Free verse	herring, fantasy,
	Innocence	arthur vaso	Free verse	Free verse	herring, 3rd grade, character, child,
	Fishing for Smiles	John Gondolf	Rhyme	Rhyme	herring, emotions, happiness, joy, smile,
	Sad Sea Tale	Geoffrey Brewer	Limerick	Limerick	herring, lost love, sea,
	Feathered Foragers	Tania Kitchin	Haiku	Haiku	herring, beach, bird,
	Camping	tikar osuru	Haiku	Haiku	herring, death, memorial,
	Herring Run at Cape Cod Canal	judith kerttula	Rhyme	Rhyme	herring, nature,
	Haibun 2017 - Images Me Feeding The Ducks Winter 2010-11	Mick Talbot	Haibun	Haibun	herring, nature,
	You Might Not Know	PAT Adams	Quatrain	Quatrain	herring, history,
	We Are The Ghost Dance Poets	David Lee Herring	Lyric	Lyric	herring, dance, god, native american,
	Killifish	Jessica Amanda Salmonson	Rhyme	Rhyme	herring, animal, fish, fishing, food,
	In Hot Soup	Subimal Sinha-Roy	Epigram	Epigram	herring, funny, humor,
	The Lewis Trap	Leanne Lovejoy-Burton	Free verse	Free verse	herring, abuse, addiction, child abuse,
	What a wonderful World	Drake Eszes	Free verse	Free verse	herring, life, people, perspective,
	Birdwatcher	Kevin Shaw	Light Verse	Light Verse	herring, beach, bird, garden, imagery,
	Croquet on the lawn at three pm	Taoi Chanan	I do not know?	I do not know?	herring, addiction, america, baseball, basketball,
	'Kimmy's Bliss 2' - More Humorous Adds	Brian Johnston	Quatrain	Quatrain	herring, encouraging, humor, love,
	please return to sender	roy hanshaw	Free verse	Free verse	herring, change, introspection, symbolism, winter,
	Late Summer Nights Dream at the Cat in the Hat	george seal	Couplet	Couplet	herring, imagination, nonsense,
	About Nothing But Really Everything	Tim Smith	Free verse	Free verse	herring, drug,
	the elderly man's made a pass at her	connie pachecho	Free verse	Free verse	herring, life, perspective,
	Paradox not, Fulcrum and hammer	John Beam	Free verse	Free verse	herring, appreciation, bible, irony, jesus,
	I opened Paris' letter and cry	connie pachecho	Free verse	Free verse	herring, confusion, daughter, growing up,
	A Fishy Tale	Denis Barter	Rhyme	Rhyme	herring, allusion, fantasy, nonsense,
	Blue heron	Dino Spahillari	Free verse	Free verse	herring, visionary,
	Nessie	Keith Logan	Narrative	Narrative	herring, adventure, fantasy, fun, humor,
	Sardines on the Sand	Barry Stebbings	Rhyme	Rhyme	herring, nonsense,
	Winnipeg	Sarah Herring	Free verse	Free verse	herring, allegory, boyfriend, corruption, desire,
	TIMES BROKEN ARROW	Darren Scanlon	I do not know?	I do not know?	herring, earth, fire, future, humanity,
	Tinted Glasses	Hailey Coraggioso	Free verse	Free verse	herring, hope, hurt, youth,
	Fishwives	Robert Horton	Rhyme	Rhyme	herring, poetry,
	Smiling Kingfish	James Tate	Quatrain	Quatrain	herring, fantasy, fish, humor, imagination,
	Rocky Cove	Delice Arleen Skelly	Tanka	Tanka	herring, ocean, sea, weather,
	Herring Gulls Revisited	Lily Radcliffe	Verse	Verse	herring, animal,
	A song for the herring gull	Lily Radcliffe	Verse	Verse	herring, animal,
	FREDDIE AND FELIX	RAJAT KANTI CHAKRABARTY	Limerick	Limerick	herring, cat, dog, fish, fun,
	NINE CRACKERS	RAJAT KANTI CHAKRABARTY	I do not know?	I do not know?	herring, fun, nonsense,
	The scent of Your Soul	KAYOD5 Kayode	Verse	Verse	herring, addiction, identity, love,
	The Rhine Salmon Complaint Translation of Etiemble s Complainte d un saumon du Rhin by T Wignesan	T Wignesan	Dramatic Verse	Dramatic Verse	herring, nature,
	The Changing Sea	Paddi March	Free verse	Free verse	herring, nature, ocean, sea, storm,
	Robert the hood Knight of the wood part 2	John Beam	Ballad	Ballad	herring, allegory, england, fantasy, hero,
	Humpback Whales	Mike Jones	Free verse	Free verse	herring, nature, ocean, sea,
	The ambiguous red herring	John Beam	Grook	Grook	herring, fish, fishing, funny, irony,
	the Curry man from trinidad	kasim ishmael	Light Verse	Light Verse	herring, food, fun, funny, life,
	One day in san Fernando	kasim ishmael	Light Verse	Light Verse	herring, introspection, life,
	Witness Statement	Elisabeth Sheaffer	Free verse	Free verse	herring, sea,
	Fishy Footles	Kim Merryman	Footle	Footle	herring, funny, sea,
	the way home	James Marshall Goff	Free verse	Free verse	herring, adventure,

Herring Poem Example

Kirsty (one)

Even now I sit, slump, shuddering,
Remembering...
Stale walls echoing lamenting calls,
their house...
A nightmare flickered in the red herring of betrayal.
Stumbling hormones, skinless evil.
it breathed...
Blood red lips snarling, capturing someone else essence, bone dry.
A nightmare...
Deliberately slithering up my calf, I grasped a cube of insanity as a last hope.

The shock...
Dead eyes feared a toy box, a fragmented sense
clung to my only protection, my untouched hell.
Blood soaked, dripping sweat, saturated fear I escaped...

I awoke...
Demons hell-bent on demise. Curiosity craved,
crushed my soul into submission,
But it's just a box...
Teeth exposed, chattered, blindly shoved fingers in to catch my tongue,
the taste of soured flesh.
Wait...
A vibrating voice crackled static pain, shivered in pleasure.
He escaped...
Bargaining, a blissful retreat, whilst exposing incompetence, irrational?
Go to hell.

Run...
Pounded at death's door, let me in...
Dad...
Warned the worm of the vulture, coming to devour its soul.

Something didn't fit, the sacrifice seeping into the floor smelt half human.
A twang...
Realisation, cold, the door creaked, locked,
grinning gruesomely, the veins pulsing along a sadistic mind,
Quaking, i flinched around to a lubricated nightmare,
clenching my muscles, the hiss of hell's rapture...

A prison shook, a prisoner shrieked,
Sanity split like perfect fission, slime coated his
perverted call...

Come, to daddy.

Poem Copyright © Holly King