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What is that Giant Head in the Ocean

...
Was that a giant head bobbing out of the ocean?
The sightseers got out their binoculars
Something massive, a monster
Looked like a giant head

Captain of the cruise ship had seen this before
...

Categories: sunfish, fish,
Form: Free verse

Your Rhythm

...You take for granted that people understand your rhythm. 
You take for granted that everyone knows how to sing. 
You have been rowing the little boat in the great big ocean.  
Spilling water into ...

Categories: sunfish, america, beauty, community, conflict,
Form: Narrative

Ocean Symphony

...Written: September 12, 2023
Ocean Poetry Contest                               Sponsored by: Ink Empress
“The sea is an underwater museum still awaiting its visitors.” – Phillip Diol...

Categories: sunfish, appreciation, beauty, deep, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Poems I Never Wrote

...Between the lily pads and soft sandbars
Lay the saturated words of idle time
Among bloated carp and feisty sunfish
They linger in a sunny dampened rhyme.

Fleet Dragonflies of thought dodge dart...

Categories: sunfish, poetry, writing,
Form: Sonnet

Meeting a Sun Fish

...Heaviest bony fish at five thousand pounds
The ocean sunfish is the roundest of the rounds.
Looks like a giant head maneuvered by a frilly tail.
Eats jellyfish by the dozen, ten foot long is the m...

Categories: sunfish, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Coral Reef

...death strikes from the cover of shadows...by poet.



tight schools of sunfish

swim atop a coral reef...

sharks stalk stray shadows


(Haiku)


03/03/2022


H Forms - Tradi...

Categories: sunfish, angst, anxiety, beautiful, fish,
Form: Haiku

Troubled Times

...Troubled Times

In troubled times, I have the sea
It's soothing sounds bring peace to me.
An ocean breeze,salty climes
I have the sea in troubled times.

Gulls swoop and dive, we wouldn't dare...

Categories: sunfish, ocean,
Form: Quatrain

Distance Squared

...Distance Squared

The speed of light
is exactly how fast
my heart sends;
every prayer, 
every good thought, 
every perfect wish! 

The bright candle between us, 
it is the sun itself. 
 
...

Categories: sunfish, appreciation, chocolate, desire, eve,
Form: Free verse

Lost By the Lake

...Lost by the Lake

It is early and the dawn has not yet come. 
The water is very still, and reflects the trees on the far side. 
Every now and again, a fish kisses the surface, 
and rings of fore...

Categories: sunfish, angel, anniversary, courage, cute
Form: Free verse

Tranquil Waters

...Tranquil Waters



Steady goes the stream of pure tranquility
Clear blue water rushes over smooth polished rock
The landscape is so green near this water of ...

Categories: sunfish, appreciation, beautiful, earth, life,
Form: Rhyme

Sonnet For Mother's Day To My Wife and Daughters

...(Written about 2005, as a sonnet, but I cannot recall why I used 13 rather than 14 syllables per line. Maybe Petrachan? Forgive me if it fails the sonnet test.)


For My Wife and Daughters...

Categories: sunfish, america, fish, nature, spring,
Form: Sonnet

The Lesson

...Sunlight blinding him,
Swirling dust choking him.
The bronc gyrating
Nearly throwing him.
Feet braced and pounding,
 Pounding the ground.
Jolting his spin, 
Up, and again down.
His head jerki...

Categories: sunfish, adventure, animals, cowboy-western, education,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

The Neversink

...Balanced on a Red Rider wagon,
a wooden boat with flaking paint; 
split transom
poorly repaired.  Ten year olds
with borrowed tools, untrained
in fixing leaks, or boats,
or knowing what a trans...

Categories: sunfish, childhood
Form: Narrative