Long Codfish Poems

Peter Pan? He is nothing but a tale drawn out,
a hero of half-truths, drowned in fairy dust,
the dullest side of a double-edged sword.
 
Before my time lost its salt, 
before the boards of this ship...

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I am a foodie, I must confess, I swim a few laps for exercise
Along come the Mollusk, and to my pleasant surprise
I have no restraint and they look so yummy
I just open my jaws wide,...

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The queen of my heart lies here in state today, and my heart throbs,
Breaking like the darkness of any day, when she rose from her bed
And through rain and cold found her way in peasant...

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BACCALIEU   EPISODE

Portuguese  named  it when they found
Bacalhau  -  meaning  codfish island.  They knew
Its  essence  -  the  French called it Baccalieu, *
This dangerously rich...

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Well swollen boobies on bullocks Boris is boss
our nations Prime Minister at J Hunt's loss
some say a buffoon and they say it sinister
like the mans brain is only miniature 
think Corbyn the codfish would be...

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I wouldn't be scant. Its codfish lies to pull ferociously all up in its cube. The forks stomped the ponies. Why did your 
goodness lift our leaf? What do ideas ride like? You sound like...

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Balls and Balls Sonnet 

At the posh supermarket in Albufeira, it sells Icelandic fishballs harvested from 
ten- year-old codfish. They are white, and round just like other balls in size, say, 
meatballs, but they taste...

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The sun, an igneous ball, is falling down the sea.
 The wave is locked, and a new night is seen.
The fishing boat heads to open ocean
 with songs ballooning the sails.
 
 
Songs tell numerous...

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We’re a rowdy bunch of misfits
No place to call home
But we salute our captain
Who adopted us all
Here in Never, never Land
We strive not to age
The whole world is our playground
All things are our toys

We are...

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Going bush

So I suppose if the world explodes 
With war and misery
I will go bush, 
Atom bombs will push
Me away from the great city

Return to the fiftys lifestyle
Box of matches an a pocketknife
To live off...

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My sunny, tropic land, I hear you calling me
From glade to glade from every fruited tree
Where birds feast piping delicious melodies
My sunny tropic land and Flanker's sunny leas

The sugarcanes have tasseled and bright now 
The...

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SEAFOOD THAT MAKES ME FEEL GUILTY

Any  swimming thing  which boils or fries,
Like a codfish on shop icebed’s  amazed eyes, 
Open-mouthed  -   “Why me?” she sighs.
Crab in restaurant  tank...

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May England be
     a enormous ship called:
     "Queen of the Seas"
      And that doesn't sink ...!

     
 ...

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FISH   AND   FISHING


Eat  fish and you’re  fed for one meal says my wife;
But  learn how  to fish  and you’re  fed all your life.
But  the...

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About fish

 Something made me think of fish
not those in tanks which life must be boring
swimming around and around
until tired and resting at the bottom
wondering how to get out of this watery trap

Do fishes think...

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The life of fishes 

I bought a cod fish
The fish-monger wrapped it in
A newspaper
I put in in the kitchen sink
Looked it in the eyes
Any recognition 
Between two being 
Nothing 
I cut its head off and...

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Waters so thick with codfish,
the Basques caught them in handbaskets. 
A river turned red as
salmon returned from the ocean.
Tropical seas teeming with billfish
and beaches thick with turtles
inspiring tales by Hemingway and Grey.

Waters without oxygen and...

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The two black and white mini-twins seemed surprised beyond surprised.
Their mouths were open like codfish in the middle of a yell.
These babies were stacked on top of each other when they caught my eye. 
Black-eyed...

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