Short Fish Tank Poems

bright eyes swinging tail
spirit inside as a whale
all the feels gray gills...

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a blackout freak out
         cube freezer and a fish tank

           mouth to mouth to mouth




;),...

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Cats
static,
unlikely.
They'd rather play
in the big fish tank.
It's the notion
of prey in
motion,
fish....

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I’ve lost all of my tropical fish
And it’s my neighbour I have to thank
Because he plays his music so loud
It caused a tsunami in my fish tank...

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Inside my fish tank
Our sun never goes offline
Darkness outside glass



Do you think it's probable for me to become a professional writer in the near future?...

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I press my face 
against 
the window glass
like a small fish 
in a large fish tank
looking out

swimming  
in lukewarm water 
watching 
the outside world
rush by

without a wave...

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I've had enough of songbirds
they don't speak for me
and the specialist keeps me waiting
in a monotone room for waiting
and the windows are too fish tank 
with the fish all looking in
wait, I think that's me looking in
as the therapist finally calls
but I left hours ago, a bird in song


...

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Water that ripples
Beside the shade that creeps
Over the friends that talk and laugh
About the day of work at worn desks
With tired legs
On a weary floor
That’s caressed feet and listened
To quiet commotion of rickety trolleys
That yearns for smooth planes
Like glass of a fish tank
Holding 	
Water that ripples 
Beside the shade that creeps....

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I'm camped on the shoreline in a very thick bog area,
surrounded by sounds of crickets, frogs and other voices of nature.
A turtle basks just above the water's surface.
For hours I relax and peacefully view it,
but alas, this is all in my imagination.
The turtle has been basking in its large fish tank aquarium,
where at times I will gaze upon it for hours, my mind a wandering...

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Fantasy fish swim by 
in my electric fish tank 
Feeling the power of their 
unearthly dreams 
I drift off into sweet fantasy
Let us watch as vapors rise up 
from the street
We cannot be arrested for dreaming!
The years have treated like Kings and Queens 
We are being rewarded for our 
excellent efforts 
Some fish glow in the dark 
They manage to exist 
despite all the factors 
limiting their life - spans...

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little things matter, especially
on ordinary days, 
vacation from routine
every once-in-awhile love bits

like breakfast in bed
in other words, I don't have to cook

neat perks that take time not money,
evidences of thoughtfulness
such as cleaning the fish tank or 
something simple like a foot massage

written 15 February 2016...

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New Orleans

Is it a fish-tank of disgust?
better left to hold water 
than you and us
Should the walls stay down below the line
let bodies fester 
rampant crime?
Cross on corral houses those who remain
trapped in their own shelter
left to die in vain?
Or will the walls be squeegeed clean
for all the world to love
obscene 
trouble is rising from the ashes aint easy
especially for the big eazzyy
he who is helped
must plaster on a greazzzy 
clown mask...

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