Short Goldfish Poems

Bowl of roiling coy
seething flames boiling over
bubbling water...

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Dog upon my lap
Cat purring in the corner
Goldfish swims in bowl...

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Sun on still waters—
Then a sudden splash of gold
Vanishing below....

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In half filled bowl
Goldfish circling and circling
Mouthing bubbles...

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a goldfish

swimming in a clear bowl--

cat stares intently

7/20/21...

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tank filled with green crud
on the bottom like a spud…
goldfish was a dud...

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torrential rain
calling for floods
~ goldfish not worried



posted on June 4, 2018...

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Listen to poem:

Memory of a 

Goldfish is as long as the

Bowl it swims inside....

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back-lit goldfish
glaring at their captors
stalk the glass


John G. Lawless
©3/26/2018...

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blue heron balances
like pond ornament statue
quickly grabs goldfish

written May 24, 2021...

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skyline ornate blaze
goldfish 'neath lily pads shade
squirrel's stuff fill cheeks


8/8/2021...

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blue-gray egrets huddle 
at the water's edge
to watch a school
of copper head
goldfish 
sail by...

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you-tube
I write no poems today
only conspiracy
watched with wide-eyed wonder
the goldfish swim away...

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elephant retains

yet goldfish can not recall

know some elephants




2019 September 20...

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A swallowing hole
                     of water that flows inward
                          or space to swim out...

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Theron was a goldfish;
Theron dried the bed.
Has to have been accurate;
that’s what Larson said.
...

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shining a forest
an arctic, grand fox cuddles
by lake with goldfish


8/30/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©...

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bug eyed and no place
                                 to hide    my naked goldfish
                                 acting koi...

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I want to be a lovely koi the goldfish told the cat
I want to be white tiger at the Mirage with Siegfried and Roy
koi laughed his fins off...

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you-tube
no poems written today
only conspiracy
watched with wide-eyed wonder
as goldfish swim away


Published - Spring 2016 - A Hundred Gourds...

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Coconut shy at Reece Fair...
Auntie Margaret is sure she'll win this time.


A shy goldfish travels home
in ornate container.





4/14/2015...

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Something born without a voice
has no choice
and dies without complaining.
It wants out of that bowl
with all of its soul
and it's so entertaining....

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your eyes hold the light

of burnished copper fishes

darting in the waves

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Some Goldfish Crackers
are good with tomato soup.
They add cheese flavor.
It's a great combination.
Why don't you try some today?
...

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She sees a pony in her room,
with biker chickens roaring by,
a goldfish on a witch's broom,
a pig, a cat about to fly...
'Ah, yes, I see 'em too, 'I lie....

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