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Sardine Poems - Poems about Sardine

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The Veteran
... war movies falling to sleep on western films in his slumped over recliner I studied him as he opened sardine cans as if they were c rations he fascinated me as we struggled with his support socks due to his leg......Read More
Categories: sardine, appreciation, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Last good days of innocence
...liquid pawns carved in satirical steer Streets bubbling enchanted in silence men wailing, choking, bundled like sardine strong drink is a mocker loneliness is a gradual death hunger is a conquerer of this earth men quarant......Read More
Categories: sardine, abuse, africa, evil, fate,
Form: Free verse
Fishers and Men
...e think about four fingers going in with a crooked thumb, maybe rusting with whitlow, taking hold of the silver on a sardine, putting hooks through what supposed to be its lungs should make us think of Kentucky's Best & Reefer, not th......Read More
Categories: sardine, abuse, angst, evil,
Form: Free verse
Sharks
...ing petrifies me. I wake up from the dreamy life, losing my serenity in their serrated presence. I turn a tiny sardine, ready to be swallowed. First published in The Literary Hatchet ......Read More
Categories: sardine, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
My Mom and Her Home
...hinese noodles or Arabian barbecue chicken from my kitchen beyond the fence. She takes steamed rice and cheap sardine curry as five-star food to her home. No one teases her, the ill-mannered slurps. She hears his footsteps ......Read More
Categories: sardine, mother,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Yosa Buson translations
...horse sh-t -Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Dawn! The brilliant sun illuminates sardine heads. -Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch The abandoned willow shines betwee......Read More
Categories: sardine, age, animal, autumn, father,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Contest
... I need to swim, but my mermaid tail was sharply cut, and legs grew back... Clumsy now, I stir my coffee with a sardine, not to be mean, they just taste good. ......Read More
Categories: sardine, america, friendship, hero, homework,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member We Didn't Know
...e trough and a mattress spring; mesh from an old birdcage. A kitchen sink broken in two and a pushbike at some stage. Sardine tins; a barrow bowl, and a seized up mower that won't mow, now there's just one corner left to clean - and stil......Read More
Categories: sardine, family, farm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shakespeare Turning Over in His Grave
...Shakespeare,Turning over in His Grave Spaghetti can, sardine can. soup can? Why, hell~~ Any man can! Do what? Think poetry is just words! Like eggs, "any style" Tossed......Read More
Categories: sardine, inspiration, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Monsoon Turbulence
...half-eaten hut. If the sea doesn’t swallow him tonight, he’ll wake up early, pick up his net, and set out to catch sardine, mackerel, pink perch, tuna and the like, for them. Winning of Poetry Nook Weekly Contest First publ......Read More
Categories: sardine, sea,
Form: Free verse
Branded
...tion. Appraisal go left go right resource exterminate that one. The smell of so much frightened humanity crammed into a sardine can and held over a fire fills their nose as if they never left that train depot. And, I suppose, part of them d......Read More
Categories: sardine, change,
Form: Free verse
Argh An Errant Stray Left Parenthesis
...turbation I thought to take a page from playbook of Sylvia Plath, and stick my head in the oven but lo, a sardine recipe (though a bit fishy), could be found necessitating cauldron only available for purcha......Read More
Categories: sardine, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
LIFE
...n. I thought life Was all about dragging Or maybe punching it, But no no no.., It owes us nothing! It is like a sardine, Reflecting on Every move we do. Of course a "baby Jake". But this time has to be different. It brings......Read More
Categories: sardine, anger,
Form: Lyric
Odyssey from Africa 14d
...ind the congregations Of the sharks and rays and tuna “Where the seabirds thresh the water Diving after shoals of sardine Countless million rays of silver Summoning the ocean banquet “Swordfish and the leaping dolphins Albacor......Read More
Categories: sardine, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Animal Charm
...e-down. There's even a lion, that's made of pig iron, While the polar bears fur's eiderdown. With a tiny sardine, of green plasticine, It's where cuckoos spring out of swiss clocks. Whatever it seems, they're not id......Read More
Categories: sardine, animal, riddle,
Form: Rhyme

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