Long Fishery Poems

Just watching raindrops slapping leaves
is better than anything requiring electricity
including fame and posterity. Monday
morning I walk over to the art museum
stand before Homer. I'm imagining
life in ancient Greece, the land largely
deforested to build a navy,...

Read More

the cause of spreading over of the fragrance
from our secret myrobalan to every side of the pillows
is not only such that in the morning 
an empty ink-pot says to the rain-water 
you are beautiful 

it...

Read More

Meeting friends

I am not a nice person I have little time
 for meaningless natters and tend to be grumpy
and often I can be rude, and I'm not too fond of pomposity.
I{m unfailingly friendly with people...

Read More

The disappearance

The Gulf of Mexico suddenly ran into the Atlantic
left oil rigs high and dry.
Naturally, the USA claimed the land which was disputed
by Mexico and Cuba and Belize.
What was left of the gulf had rivers...

Read More

You took away the crown that you put on my head.
You placed a frown on my face and put my heart into the dead.
The Prince I used to dream in my lovely fairytale;
He threw the...

Read More

Baldwin, Michigan is a fascinating town to see.
It is the county seat of Michigan’s Lake County.
Just over a thousand residents call Baldwin home.
Many summer vacationers come here to roam.
The town is a great place for...

Read More

The governments should adopt scientific way 
Of canal digging with an eye to 
Solve flood problem, mitigate irrigation crisis
And open up new avenue of fishery.

At first the area where flood water overflow
From the rivers should...

Read More

Birthing a bio-novel, Brenda
writes with a buoyant agenda -
basing her book on Bart Barbour,
the best boatman in Boston’s Harbor.

He’s big, brave and belligerent
and like her dad, an immigrant.
Her bridegroom's a pirate, she boasts, 
born and...

Read More

Bruno enrolls in the tertiary
For a full program in Fishery.
Dad had judged his first course treachery
Or Bruno risking self trickery...

In their lusty town much revelry,
In which fish faces not rivalry:
Fish more than meat touched by...

Read More

Drooping pen said “enough of melancholia”
Spread words of cheer, like sweet smelling magnolia
Vowed never again to write of misery
So fished for words in diction’s fishery
Who would become the inspiring muse 
Some clever thought or inspiring...

Read More