Long Krill Poems

All that does encompass bespeaks wonder in everything
bubbling brooks and waterfalls does your glory ring
terrestrial and celestial ever fill our eyes with seeing
how can not it's splendor not fill our very being
 
raindrops in waters...

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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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Hit Repeat
Written by Rebekah Shipp
June 6, 2016

When this sick beat drops
And you find yourself lost
Bass ALL up in your ears
And your eyes start to tear
When the treble pops your lid
It’s Casablanca all over again
Cause all...

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Salmon Run

A flurry of reds emerges distorted from the river;
As the Sockeye Salmon return from the ocean,
Following the scent of their home stream water,
Swimming upstream to the place of their birth,
In this, their final act...

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Humpback beauties call to their young
Communicating to calves so precious 
Don't be so immediately audacious
You can wander, just don't go too long

Blubberous parents are there to keep them close
For companionship, warmth and learning 
Send each...

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How ideal to luxuriate
supposed divine right frill
maximizing climate control
with matter of fact bravado
creature comfort pang to fulfill
consequent flagrant portent

to exercise freewill
beware controlled environment
pays hefty bill
cracking heat as
temperature gets chill
cumulative destructive

ecological footprints generated,
thus advisable to swallow
figuratively...

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I am Li from the East
Not the the martial artist

I am half-Asian
Raised in Appalachian

I love to cook
Selling in any nook

I push and pull a cart
Honest from the bottom of my heart

I cook street food
Spook and...

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I've got a dish of killifish
I wish to eat that silly fish
Baked, or fried in peanut oil
Roasted, dried, or let to boil.

Make me a star-gazy pie
Take me to the Catfish Fry
Lead me to the China...

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Here I am...just a tiny Krill
   Alive and well, swimming still.


   I wasn't eaten like my buddy Hank
   Taken by a Beluga, before he went off to the tank.


...

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If I die before tomorrow
Though the sun won't shine for me
Take pleasure in it's warming glow
There's a future there to see

No life will last forever
The sun will one day fail
But not before we've all passed...

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FISH IN BOWL

                              Me frolic fish...

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quiet waves out at sea
deeply breathing in
sweeping out to shore

a frigate bird swells
a red neck sack hoping
to attract

a young buck
ruts and rattles
antlers with a tree

the earth shakes
a slight quake making
mounds ripple as if flesh

a slug...

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Have you ever been to the Arctic
and heard the "Tickling of the Ivories"?
That is the time when the Monodons
joust each other with their singular parries.

They have one thing in common...
A singular tooth that the males...

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Arctic ice packs are essential to the polar 
bear, providing a platform on which to hunt seals.
Climate change is impacting their environment,
disrupting their ability to feed themselves.
Ecologically, they're facing extinction;
for the northern waters are becoming...

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Miles past the nightstand
over the plastic water bottle.
the Ambien pill dispenser
and the soul-bruised eye shades,
an arrhythmic clock 
ticks like a bombed-out tank.

Of course there is the lampshade
(that lighthouse for the luminescent krill
of submerged consciousness)
that seems...

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Scanter hours of daylight during fall. 
Without your grace, I’d not be here at all. 
Lilies can smell dew in the countryside. 
Sitting on the green and resting side-by-side.

The Quahog calm has a clear few worries. 
For so long,...

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The wheel of the year has turned again. 
New growth is on its way. 
WE sow seed and watch it grow ,what we say and do is the seed of life. 
There is one Earth,one...

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Astounding, amazing abyss
Beneath both beautiful and bountiful
Clear, cleansing caverns
Diving dangerously for discoveries
  Enchrusting Echnoderms
  Foraging fish
  Gorgeous gastropods
  Hunting hammerheads
  Intelligent invertebrates 
  Jubilant jellyfish
  Kindred krill
 ...

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Silently shrill 
a silent chill 
seems to have run down the spine 
of our blue planet windmill 
So many deceased 
Too many ill 
mounting and surmounting 
 the hospital bill 
Breathing for many 
 is...

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The unlikely alliance

for me you need not be clothed
I understand your fragility
of which the edges are like krill
To you I disclose my being,
for only you I rehearse my songs.
From the truest vestiges of the heart,
where...

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Penguins are beautiful creatures
one of the most elegant is the king
second only to Emperor in size
stands up to 100cm an amazing thing

The king's diet comes mainly from the sea
having appetite for lanternfish, squid and krill
so...

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He cannot soar as eagles do
 Singing is not for him tis true
  So this  tale is told in black and white
 in places where cold winds blow
   So bundle up...

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black and white landscape
a colony of penguins ~
standing and waddling

in the oceans depth  
lives a black and white giant~
orca killer whale   

seal on an ice flow  
oblivious to danger  ~
head...

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Blue Whales are listed as, endangered
and are found in Chile, Gulf of California and the Coral Triangle
They are the largest animal on the planet, weighing tons of nearly 200
and they need to digest four tons...

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With mighty wings I rise
Looking down through darkened skies
Searching for food today to feed
Hungry fledgling on the isle she leaves

With her mate who danced in synch
To prove he had all the instincts
That's needed to rear...

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