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Herrings Poems - Poems about Herrings

Premium Member nomenclatures
...amidst a jungle sloths snuggle ten tree's apart hung stared glance awry scout darts afar off an army of red herrings plots a lure or lore after a rainstorm a hover of trouts stood still g......

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Categories: herrings, analogy,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Metaphors
..."This poem has not been entered in any previous contest." Did I just see a pig fly by, it must be time to question why time flies, but a watched pot ......

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Categories: herrings, political,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Our Big Lunch
...God Save the King! So echoed round the village halls, the pubs, the streets the day our Charlie Prince was crowned. Homes decked with bunting, cake, and treats. We celebrated with a rave, o......

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Categories: herrings, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Didn'T See It Coming, Part Iii
......Give him a handful of seconds and his turbocharged cyborg mind could know what a man would do next, and it happened time after time. Carson chose to have fun with this, he signed up to do s......

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Categories: herrings, confidence, corruption, dark, evil,
Form: Narrative
Silver Light
...SILVER LIGHT I once knew a man who thought he was free then looked in the screen to see he was me existing within a square cage of silver light watching ones and zeros form black herrings......

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Categories: herrings, dark,
Form: Free verse



A Mackerel Sky
... "A Mackerel Sky" shadows like sun dance across an ocean of tears salt for the stinging walking on clouds with the Fisher King, as if in school in the swim of ......

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Categories: herrings, journey, life, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Poems I Never Wrote
...The poems I never wrote are small fish - sardines that roam the ocean of my mind. Swift thoughts are they, and like a fleeting wish, each flits away, and never can I find those lines that had int......

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Categories: herrings, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Hercule's Last Case
...HERCULE’S LAST CASE? My name is Captain Hastings, Well, ex-Captain to be precise. And I sometimes give Hercule Poirot Some help and sage advice. We’ve been to another house ......

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Categories: herrings, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thoughts On Suspense
...Suspense is a thing worth not knowing Dying for the knowledge of the mystery From novice to brainiac ever flowing, Slipping into the dark annals of history. Shudders at the noise of vic......

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Categories: herrings, mystery, writing,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member The Book of Adverbs
...Slyly introduce your plot with a clever narrative hook, Assuming optimistically, you'll successfully market your book. Darkly hint at omens with flashback and foreshadowing To shrewdly draw the re......

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Categories: herrings, allegory, humor, literature,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member PISCES PIECES
...Now see a fine display in market hall Where fishmonger's stalls sell the freshest catch. A world of wet white tiles and melting ice. Seafood displayed, arranged in rank and file. One Scottish ......

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Categories: herrings, food, life,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Integrity's Confusion
...It is confusing: to politically powerful feelings, to enlightened economic thoughts, to systemically resilient integrity, to RightBrain healthwealth uniting values, When a confederated governm......

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Categories: herrings, beautiful, community, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Tiger King
...Inspired by the incongruous Joe exotic Documentary You think because I smile I’m happy, well it’s one big facade, Strut round my insane kingdom, driving all and sundry mad, Like the tigers......

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Categories: herrings, allusion, animal, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Forever Sworn To Secrecy
...Who did it Whodunit I really do not know But this evening I will witness a truly iconic show The Mousetrap* it is named its claim to fame I hear Is “the world’s longest run” Now in its ......

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Categories: herrings, murder, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Here I Stand
...I was encompassed within the sullen lust Of gentrified prepositions Incomplete adjectives layer the magnitude of My emptied valor I became entrenched in the touch The smile The tears Of wi......

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Categories: herrings, abuse, life, lost love,
Form: Free verse

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