Short Porpoise Poems

The porpoise of life
Fish...

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Spent my life looking for purpose
what if that is what it is...

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Nomadic circus
Atlantic acrobatics
porpoise performance...

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She’s out there, somewhere
swimming in salty smooth seas,
laughing like Flipper....

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porpoise play
salty squirts
waves splashing

waves pounding
floating wood beaten
hurricane...

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This little tubby cousin 
Of the dolphins has no beak.

He’s very shy and talks, 
Not with a click, but with a sneezy squeak!...

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a turquoise tortoise

                                    and a purposive porpoise

                                                            neither loses poise...

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’Twas Jonah the Lord God did teach,
When orders he opted to breach.
God’s porpoise not thwarted,
Escape was aborted,
With Jonah spit up on the beach.

If the fish had refused God right then,
Having tasted the flavor of men,
An immoral cetacean
That fell from creation,
Or a case of Original Fin?...

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Pinnacle predator
Prominently patterned
Primarily pod-based
Prefers porpoise portions
Pretty photogenic
Partially protected
Parasite-prone problems

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for the In Search of Prey Poetry Contest
on the subject of Orcas
sponsored by Joseph May
written 03/16/2022
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Porcupine fell in love with Porpoise today.
Protective quills ready at the stay.
Porpoise dove down with his blunt snout.
Porcupine smiled; in love with the lout.

It can never be actualized Porcupine said.
But I will love you totally until the day I am dead.
Porpoise said, “I feel exactly the same about you. “
They were star crossed lovers, these magnificent two....

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SAD SEA TALE

There was once an old man of the ocean
For a mermaid he had a devotion
But instead of two pins
She’d a tail and some fins
Which precluded their harmonic motion

But in spite of her disparate corpus
They maintained their romance polymorphous
‘Til a herring one day
Brought a message to say
That she’d gone off to live with a porpoise


[Gift for a lady]...

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cold rock, who's gnashing teeth
beget torn lips and tidy legs
loveless creature clothed in rind
future queen would nary pine

fondleproof my guest
gentle curls no effect
your veinous tarmac brings organasms arrest
abandoned crusades confer pontiffregrets


what!  the spectacled porpoise awakens!
the breeze suffocates
the sun withdraws
now must I greet your desire and drain your ample limits...

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Adelie penguins,
dear little things,

black on your backs, 
black on your wings,

round white tummies
and flat pink feet,

your waddle is funny 
and so is your squeak.

When you dive in the water
and porpoise around,

jumping back on your feet
when you land on the ground,

it’s a penguin I’d be,
if a bird I would choose,

wearing dinner-suit feathers 
and flappy pink shoes.
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PORCUPINE
    
       ‘Spiny rodent Porcupine! 
        Tell me, Are you fine?’
     
     ‘Sure. Tough thorny spikes, all are mine.
      I can count from one to nine.

      I love blue sky and bright sunshine.
      With playful Porpoise, I always dine.

      I wish to go for cruise in river Rhine
      I walk free in the wood of Pine.

    I taste grapes from the yard Vine.
     Climbers are planted in a line.


 05/17/21...

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