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Sticklebacks Poems - Poems about Sticklebacks


Premium MemberPast Times 2

...Five stones
                closing times
radiograms and
              seventy-eights
school caps
              sticklebacks
saturday flicks,pooh sticks

Charabancs
              steam train...
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Categories: sticklebacks, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSaved In My Memorybank

...Five stones closing times 
     radiograms & seventy-eights
 school caps      sticklebacks
 saturday flicks    pooh sticks
 Charabancs         steam trains
 linoleum oil cloth
 mangles      fis...
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Categories: sticklebacks, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberButterfly

...The butterfly is back.
I saw him land in sun, just where the bin had been, before today's collection. 
This one I had not seen since boyhood tracks by field and hedge, 
and hunting for a nest and ...
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Categories: sticklebacks, april, butterfly, christian, garden,
Form: Rhyme

Fishing With Dynamite

...Fishing with Dynamite
Boom! goes the dynamite as we fish for fish
No line, net or hook needed
Just a few sticks of dynamite and a Zippo
Light the stick and toss it in
Wait a few seconds and Boom...
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Categories: sticklebacks, adventure, fishing, satire,
Form: Free verse

Fishy Tales - a Rhyming Wave Poem

...RHYMING WAVE POETRY

The Rhyming Wave is a poetry form created by Katharine L. Sparrow, American writer and poet.
 It's format; 2 or more quatrains plus an ending couplet. Lines 1...
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Categories: sticklebacks, nature,
Form: Rhyme



A Sestina - My Secret River

... MY SECRET RIVER
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Its source some distance from its end, highlands.
A little trickle meanders a mile.
Pure, full of many forms of life, no fish!
Now babbles over rocky ground...
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Categories: sticklebacks, nature, rap, river,
Form: Sestina

Premium MemberThose Were the Days

...Five stones     
                 closing times
radiograms and
               seventy-eights
school caps
               sticklebacks
saturday flicks,pooh sticks

Charabancs
               st...
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Categories: sticklebacks, childhood, history, nostalgia,
Form: Verse

A La Carte For the Whales

...Mitigating migrating mermaids mingle marvellously. But only after consuming an oyster. Oysters can be quite operatic and operas are neither optical illusions nor organised instruments either. It is w...
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Categories: sticklebacks, bible, , cute,
Form: I do not know?

The Swan King

...The Swan King.

Fine fibre lashes flicker, flutter.
Sailing trance-like on warm reflected glass,
Royal icing sculpture, still Lily-White feathers.
Ripples giggling, Dragon Flies dipping,
Stickl...
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Categories: sticklebacks, beauty, bird, nature, poems,
Form: Free verse

Haiku Kingfisher

...Hazed mist of morning

kingfisher iridescent ~

sticklebacks beware....
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Categories: sticklebacks, bird,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberFishy Tale

...A pond sits in the glen
bright fish dashing about
casting silvery shadows
ducks chasing after them
eels making their way to sea
flying birds circling back and forth
green frogs croaking for a m...
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Categories: sticklebacks, fish,
Form: Abecedarian

Premium MemberPlaces

...If I could be any place I have Lived
it would be back in dear Dar-es-Salaam
this is where I left my heart moons ago
a simple yet enthralling and lovely place

Everything one needs on the doorstep
exo...
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Categories: sticklebacks, africa, creation, england, happiness,
Form: Verse

Bubbletown Blews

...Bubbletown  Blews


Whilst sitting and lying by a babbling brook
for once through the water I took a deeper look
then I saw into Bubbletown, bubbles popping with glee
for that is what they are meant ...
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Categories: sticklebacks, discrimination, england, environment,
Form: Light Verse

Kingdom of the Frog

...By a still pond where the water lilies plate the mirror fair
the dragonflies in neon burst unzip the summer air
beneath the wilting willow in rippling rows of reed
the warblers spring like acrobats t...
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Categories: sticklebacks, happiness, introspection, seasons, summer,
Form: Rhyme

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