Herrings Poems - Poems about Herrings

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...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...

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
 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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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