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Sailfish to Heaven

...Jill warned Jack (up to a grasshopper's knee), 
"stay on the shore to dwell,
or you're body will go to the raging sea, 
and your soul will go to Hell". 

Jack grabbed his stand-up fishing pole -...

Categories: sailfish, fishing, nonsense, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Who Am I?

...
Who am I?

I can swim seventy miles per hour
The largest of my kind caught was twice as long as a tall man
That sucker weighed two-hundred and twenty pounds

Give up?
I have a pointed bill
...

Categories: sailfish, fish,
Form: Free verse

Oh the Tales That He Could Tell

...Along a pier, on a bench,
An old man sits all day.
Passers by not lending time,
To what he has to say.
They'll never know the loves he had,
Or ocean blues he sailed.
If they had just a moment,
...

Categories: sailfish, age, irony, lonely, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Avoiding Amputation

...I watched the sailfish spring from the sea

Had no wings, an enigma to me

     Why in flight did it embark?
     
     Pursuit by a great white shark

Its sail would soon be an amputee...

Categories: sailfish, animals, funny, sea
Form: Limerick

Flight of the Sailfish

...At the end of this 
Fishing line,
We captured
A metallic blue
Sailfish, with
Blazing red eyes
He thrashes
Fin and tail
Against the
Pull of these
Ocean hands
In the vastness of
These ragin...

Categories: sailfish, imagination
Form: Free verse

Part Two Twentyfabel6

...fable 
c.1300, from O.Fr. fable, from L. fabula "story, play, fable,Most trace to Greece or 
India. 
The story that eye make is sometimes loosely based on a real life scenario a 
fate of people j...

Categories: sailfish, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse

Past Repast Reflections Or Sitramble Solitude

...looking up into an after breakfast  blue morning sky
at a rapidly fading wind brushed skeletal sailfish
floating as high as I'd like to be
Half cup of cooling coffee beside me on the patio table
...

Categories: sailfish, life, nature, morning,
Form: Bio

Deep See Fishing

...Silver
     plated
sinew,
assaulting the sky,

         !!!!!!!   Sailfish  !!!!!!
           errupting
    in spray
arching high,

    Blue White
        and 
Bright
in the Florida sun,...

Categories: sailfish, children, sea,
Form: Couplet

I Am Florida

...I am Florida ,paradise
look around and realise
dreams come true
beneath my skies
   azure seas ,a life serene
egrets wade beside the stream

peace surrounds you like a dream
       sailfish a...

Categories: sailfish, nature, me, summer, me,
Form: Rhyme