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Mackerel Poems - Poems about Mackerel


Premium Member 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 things fishing nets for love all in the eye of the beholder wisdom like pearls sown, an inevitable plant, pregnant with possibility full-bellied, grown, then stitched up embroided sewn imperfect the hem of...

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Categories: mackerel, journey, life, muse,
Form: Narrative
Accepting the Despised
It was my much despised dish But I ate it with relish, Because of a granted wish To be served Mackerel Fish And treated to a glimpsed quiche But that was rather childish To a friend acting British All of a sudden snobbish And I hated q wished fish Like Devout Christians Hashish... Then, I'd been the quite sheepish: Unstable Saul Son of Kish For accepting The...

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Categories: mackerel, appreciation, character, christian, family,
Form: Rhyme



Alcohol Field Marshal
Each time, he clumsily drank, Rapidly shrank: Increasing glasses of burning whisky He knew was risky. Then, twice ‘Pitiless Rum’ he tried And up he dried A mackerel, from head-to-tail fried! Like a plant to soon wilt At a stand still; did tilt… Now, exceedingly poor, His company forcing on a family of four, He had the Lord God to thank, Each time, he half-filled his tank. But...

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Categories: mackerel, addiction, character, desire, health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mackerel Dogs Mackerel Cats
mackerel pudding mackerel cake mackerel pie for goodness sakes! mackerel blinds mackerel drapes mackerel ice cream on chocolate cakes. mackerel poems mackerel words. mackerel now sounds rather absurd. mackerel dogs mackerel cats. mackerel quilts made by a skittish old bird....

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Categories: mackerel, fish,
Form: Light Verse
Mackerel Mourning Haiku
feasting gulls gather on a lip of cockled sand mackerel mourning...

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Categories: mackerel, nature
Form: Haiku




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