Short Fish Out Of Water Poems

I'm dying to know
Fish dying without water
Where is my water?...

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You, skinny dipping,
is making each fish desire
to become a man....

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River
R u n s
Rapid

Salmon
S w i m s
Swift...

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lying in bed thinking 
like a lump fish out of water
gasping for air...

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koi dress in sunlight
gray rocks, slimy, remain cold
lake knows of roundness...

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Quiet lake…floating ducks…
baited fishing lines plopping…
silent sun setting....

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lungfish

a lungfish
mined timepiece
unwind years when wet

2022 January 08...

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cubs getting hungry
     salmon swimming up the stream
          easy catch for bear
...

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a large school of fish
     in unison each fish turns
          synchronized swimming
...

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the hydrophilic Mr. Limpet leaps - fishing for a better life

1/24/2021

*1964 movie The Incredible Mr. Limpet...

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brain food... school of fish
  fish out of water... dead fish
     off the hook... go fish  

           April 18, 2018...

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I am a fish out of water,
Hanging with my mouth open wide.
Eyes hardly seeing,
Swishing to and fro,
Waiting to be gutted, 
on this open boat....

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Floundering on the shore
Of a new-found land
Couldn't breathe air
Til I landed on sand
Purely by accident
Not by my hand
Purely by accident
Can't understand....

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The cork bobbled up and down;
the river ran; chased by mother wind.
The lonely wino took to coma
like fresh fish out of water.

The fallen bottle dripped drops
of lost dreams....

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Very Rude Haiku

Winter? 3 lines?....Right! ....

5-7-5 cadence, meter 

I don't think so!...Blah!   

               -or-

Table by brook swamped

Consume fish, tail, heads, water

No soup for you!...Tip!...

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I once knew a compassionate man
who couldn't survive on dry land

    he was sensitive and kind 
  helped me find peace of mind

with him a spiritual quest began 





Pisces Freak I Am 
March~17th...

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Day to day, 
I watch you floundering,
Like a fish out of water.
The human and the mermaid.
Afraid of drowning,
He calls from his little island,
As the sea beckons.
Offering it's spoils
Torn,
You sit in the shallows....

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As the big fish jumps from water into the air
And the twilight sits in blue joy on its scales
I pick my words from your lustrous hair
And use them in my sentence for my sails
As the colours keep painting your toenails

August 9, 2017...

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The fish comes to the surface of water
to observe the earth world
of men...
 Sights what it sees, and
feels the danger...
For just a moment,
 it analyzes , observes...concludes
it's not solid ground...
So he dives back
to its aquatic world...!...

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A merman had one stubborn daughter

who rebelled against what her dad taught her.

When she swam to dry land,

she could then understand

she was just like a fish - out of water!


For the Out of Water Poetry Contest of Sheri Fresonke Harper...

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A Sea of Stars


The
Fountain
Overflows 
Cascading down
A slope and a steep 
Rocky ledge that empties 
Into a reservoir, a
Serene and tranquil feeling , what
A scene, what a dream birds fly up high 
Fish swim underground in a sea of stars


Marckincia Jean
Etheree 
10/11/19...

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am I more valid when I am in water
I am apt to explore outside my bubble
a gurgle of spoken word
unknown
on my scales the weight
of air

I swim
through the sky
the dream
scares the girl
for me it’s divine

‘fore I reach the pinnacle
she’s pinched
liquid eyes open
to prison of glass

...

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A fish out of water,
A long way from home,
A long way from English,
A long way from everything she's ever known.

Alone,
She doesn't speak the language,
Has no friends,
A fish out of water.

Bright blue eyes,
Light blonde hair,
Different,
A fish out of water.


*10th place in "out of water" contest*...

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the fish is
restless as
a risk
of knife...
It's
as a
hummingbird in
water... kisses
 a slice of bread
as a lover
steals
a kiss...

at sea it
hides and only
appears at
 leaps...

on the river it is
white beams
in reflexes
of the sun in the day...
at night
 silver scribble  under
    moonlight...!...

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My name means the lizard
Fossil records list me
Colors change youth~adult
Freshwater is my home
On land~water swimming
I eat fish~turtles~you
We mate in late spring time 
 

Date Written:3/28/2022...

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