Really Awfully of Fishes: the Of-fish-all Version:
Have all of you haddock lovely day?
Cod have been a good eel batter!
(Salmon’s sprat cod have had that to say
All of a sardine, in chatter!)
Getting into such bad halibuts,
Trout to kipper self from whaling!
Mackerel mess cutting out the guts –
Weigh to tuna fish all scaling.
Mako koi up roach to mullet over;
Bass off and do get tarpon your pike!
Whiting wrongs saves some soles from Dover,
Yellowtails take a minnow to strike!
Herring that, you are filled with hake, red,
Or does it mackerel skate of shark?
Fall off perch to a plaice in lake bed?
Sturgeon and tonic in the carp arc?
Really Awfully of Fishes: the OFF-fish-all Version:
‘Have all of you had a lovely day?’
‘Could have been a good deal better!’
Someone’s brat could have had that to say
All of a sudden, in chatter.
Getting into such bad habits,
Try to keep herself from wailing;
Make a real mess cutting out the guts,
Weigh to tune official scaling.
Make a coy approach to mull it over;
Buzz off and do get upon your bike!
Righting wrongs saves some souls from Dover;
Yell, ‘Oh, tales take a minute to strike!’
Hearing that, you are filled with hatred,
Or does it make a real state of shock?
Fall off perch to a place in lake bed?
Stir gin & tonic in the car park?
Your lines leave dullards feeling icthys.
(Bait your hooks and tell them “stick THIS !”
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When you’ve hooked them all, just fine,
They have reached the end of the line!
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It all sounds fishy to me!
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In fact, a lot of cod’s wallop!
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You mean it is really a different kettle of fish.
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The human translation goes:
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
😉
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This I not just a aweful rhyme, it seems pretty fishy as wekl
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Col, it kind of made sense to me and then I read the translation. Now I think it makes sense. Not that it has to, however… it was a good read anyway. I was trying to work out what the fishes actually meant before I spotted the translated version!
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I take terrible liberties with words, sometimes. How they let me get away with it, I don’t know!
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I like wordplay too, Col! Take more liberties, is what I say!
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From what I have just scribbled on your blog, you’re going to regret saying that!
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Not at all! 😀
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I can’t think up a clever fish comment. Most entertaining reading your poem and reading through all the comments though 🙂
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*hurt* Why didn’t you just say I am a clever fish? 🙂
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Okay: “I am a clever fish.” Better?
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You are about to be served on a plate accompanied by chips …
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😀 “Les poissons, les poissons, how I lurve les poissons…”
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That’s what you call a fishy poem…
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Fishy? It has fish in it? 🙂
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Yes I agree… full of fish.. that’s why I think it fishy…
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*reads bottom rhyme* I don’t see any fish …
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Read top rhyme …. very fishy
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you got me here, I can’t come up with a satisfactory fishy response! Although I will tell you haddock is in my fridge waiting to be eaten. And Captain Haddock from TinTin is a great, gruff character 🙂
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Hasddock in milk – yum!
Not to forget that Salmon Rushdie is the Muslim’s favourite poet …
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LOL! very good
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Favourite pet?
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Something very fishy going on here. 😀
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Are you taking the piscatorial out of me?
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I’m in the wrong plaice. Cod be skate-ing on tuna-ice. Ok that was bad but it’s late and I’m tired 😀
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You did pretty well. How could I have misplaced plaice? Your ‘tuna ice’ cracked a smile.
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And my skate-ing? 😦
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I read halfway and was forced to stop and go and find a Rennies.
We don’t have a net over our fish pond /pool and thank the gods only lost one goldfish to the Grey Heron, but an African Darter had a hearty breakfast of baby koi several years back.
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*devastated* But you missed the Really Awfullest bits!
I would have made that Darter a departer …
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Oh, I fin – ished it!
I would not be so rude. Give me my due,
I just needed the tablet to help me through.
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After which, no doubt, a stiff whisky helped!
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I could just murder a G and T…and a very punny poet.
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I’ll have to make do with wine …
There was something vaguely fishy about it, though?
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That really is a terrible rythme
lots of fishes all the time
but it takes true guts I think
writing poems in an eye, s blink
you really are a man of word knowledge
so I think you went to college
to learn how to do these fins
And a degree you surely wins
very clever, very true
wish I could write poems just like what you do
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I won’t say that you are a poet,
And all the time you didn’t know it,
But I will say that when you write,
Your words do tend to rhyming, quite!
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i do try sometimes
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Koi you, that had sole man… eel bet this fishy tail will fin’ end…
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Careful using fish lines … they often have sharp hooks on the end! 🙂
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