I feel like I am in the belly of a whale right now. That whale is grief... I am just floating around with whatever else is in the whale's stomach. Every time the grief hits me, I try to hit it back to force my way out. Casually just waiting for it to eat me while also looking for a way out. Maybe eventually I can find a way out, like Marlin and Dory did in Finding Nemo, but for some reason, the whale wants to keep me there. It likes my company...
Why did it eat me?
What does it want from me?
Why can't it just spit me out already?
Why is it so dark in here?
Will anyone ever find me in here?
I'm scared. I'm alone.
Hello?
Anyone?
Help me out of here!
Octopus hide in your sea garden
Two tentacles bit by a marlin
Afraid to reach out
though never a doubt
New limbs sprout, no better a bargain!
Wild Kingdom
every Sunday night
Marlin and Jim
traveling throughout the world
catching cats
lassoing llamas
herding hyenas
interspersed with insurance commercials
Mutual of Omaha protecting the wild and you
My favorite:
Snagging snakes
I rooted for the snake!!!
Sailors from a sinking ship not one shall survive
For mermaids grasp them by the hips
and to the bottom dive.
Both young and old sailors gasp and drown
into the deep.
The ocean is a sea of tears in dying they weep.
So beautiful the mermaids are with faces young
red lips and slender necks were strings of pearls hung.
Their hair is long and flowing in every hue a man could desire
their eyes are deep and dreamy set one's heart afire
Their breast are full and perky every red blooded boy would peek
their skin smooth their hands soft make the strongest man weak
But below the waist a fish tail large and ever strong
powerful in the mermaids grasp, no escape forever you belong
She is fast is the Marlin swims with a shark's bite
and the death of drowning sailors brings her an odd delight.
So beware ye mates and sail on never listen to the sirens song
for if you sail to close to the rocky sea coast your ship and life be gone
The mermaid such seductive beauty, tempts a lonely man at sea
but she is the devil fish, your life and soul a pearl on her necklace to bead.
I was made
To venture undulating time
And chase the tides forever facing forward
Through glinting waves by unknown shores
I migrate
The oceans’ warm currents for
Thousands of miles yearly, continuing
Always onward, always embraced by water
I am
The mighty blue marlin mirroring a sight
Of the blue heavens above, divinely
I was created to breathe and to glide
As this ocean life’s own,
Yet by His magnificent, pure Holy design,
I am
Powerful, challenging, defying death often
I leap
Above the rolling waves into radiant light
As water gleaming streams off my sides
Over the scars of hooks still there by fishers’ tries
I am a blue marlin
Born and destined to survive for decades
In sparkling waves observed by my sparkling eyes,
Loving the eternal swim through His created
Waters that brought our planet to life.
father cloud pours condensation into the waves of the sea
mother ocean feels his appreciation, and responds accordingly
brother wolf and sister bear begin frolicking in the torrent waves
native sea creatures feel the soul of a brethren lover of the sea
the evening turns into twilight, which is as it should be
salmon, walleye, catfish and marlin travel down in the ocean’s depths
father cloud watches from his catbird seat in the land of no return
All is well, mother ocean assures the gods and goddesses of the night
Diving deep underwater, mask on
To hide your face, conceal your oxygen.
You go deeper and deeper, not realizing
How deep you’re going.
Eventually, you come face to face with a marlin,
But you see them as a carp.
You can’t tell the difference between
A carp and a marlin.
You don’t see the marlin, rare as he is,
And you mistake him for a carp.
Well, this carp has a hook.
A hook that will
Plunge its way through your heart,
Your soul, and your mind, and will
Take everything out with it and swim
As far away from you as possible after.
But you don’t even realize it, because
You’re not a fisherman.
You can’t tell the difference between
A carp and a marlin.
And that will be your downfall.
I want to be Tony, Samuel, Mickey, Marlin and Jack.
With the self-confidence of Izzy, who wears pride on her back.
I want to walk with my chest puffed out, not prissy, but fine.
I want to strut and stroll down the fine peacock line.
I want to hold my head up so high from my puffed up head
That the neighbors all back away, their hearts filling with dread.
With the self-assurance of a male lion in African’s savanna.
I want to exude the confidence of the sweetest ripe banana.
Put me in a banana split, cover me with whipped cream and ices.
Feed me to the men in the pool hall who are rolling money dices.
Say great things as you gulp me up, singing praises about my sweet.
For my confidence will be so great; I will be a delicious tasty treat!
A man did dream
And harpooned a Marlin
And brought with him,
But a monstrous fin.
A dame did dream
Of marrying a rich prince;
She cracked her urn
And broke her dream.
A man did dream
Of nabbing an assassin
But found in him
The greatest sin.
“Do dream, do dream,”
Ear drums resound,
But dreams – are dreams,
They just abound.
Robert Allen Zimmerman a gifted poetical man
Known as Bob Dylan with an acoustic guitar in his hand
Married Shirley Marlin Noznisky aka Sarah Lownds
Who divorced in nineteen seventy seven on disintegration grounds
Sarah Sarah don’t ever leave me, don’t ever go
Blood on the tracks and tracks in the snow
Sad eyed couple of the Lowlands
Bob Dylan and Sarah Lownds
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While casual, coral reef cruising, marlin flygirl fishing,
my dinghy eyes got capsized
into the shimmy-ing belly of a barracuda
Crustacean curiosity got sent on an abdominal mission
My dinghy eyes got capsized ...
chum dummy fell overboard into the deep end
Lost in an ocean of pulse infatuation,
sponge orbitals didn’t realize
Into the shimmy-ing belly of a barracuda,
blubbering thoughts have taken infirm control of me
Spawn desires swimming upstream,
chasing a she-devil in a triangle Bermuda
Crustacean curiosity got sent on an abdominal mission,
found out the aorta pearl was inside a zircon clam
Mystery lust algae dragged my ego undertow ...
While casual, coral reef cruising, marlin flygirl fishing
Virility of a writer,
an adventure...
you would find,
out in the bush!
For the big hunt
to unwind...
your clock,
in time.
Only to come undone,
and for victory
you had won.
All in full flower...
for a while,
with one big smile!
Out in the deep sea
with the marlin,
or just a bull ring...
you would find.
Anything for a fight!
A true Bohemian...
in the night.
And in your life,
you found much strife.
Just to know you
for your writing...
at it's best!
Sunday Morning blues
RIO DE JANEIRO all nights or LAS VEGAS nightlife
After two-three glasses of Twisted Ice Lemon
Or was it an Alabama Slammer? You mustn’t trust!
My days and nights felt like a Freight train ride
And that no lie!
Then I remember the Cuban Bulldog who bite me
Three years ago, in Kissimmee; I think
which left me more than a little weak
in the knees those feisty drinks
Or was it that wicked, wacky Long Island Ice coffee
Which almost has done me in?
after watching a news clips of Momar Kadafi
or was it an episode of Friends
Luckily, for me I met my sweet Marlin Brando
And it was hallelujah and Amen in Key Largo
So many bartenders, so many smokes filled rooms
So, once again here I am nursing
Another Sunday mornings blues.
Sexy Sardine:
Dishy
Fishy
Charming Swordfish
Darlin'
Marlin
Alaskan poacher gets mauled by a:
Polar's
Molars
After sex, bears often share a:
Yogi
Stogie
Snake Charmer:
Viper
Piper
Sheep Predator:
Mutton
Glutton
Mango Salsa
Ahi Tuna
Ready
Lures
Inviting
Novice
Mosey
On in
Now
Relax
Observe
Everyone's
Satisfaction
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