Fishy Adventures

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The horse trampled his water dish
leaving beads of shimmering gems
where shimmied the rainbow fish
slithering through tall iris stems,
making his way uphill: his wish
to see his favored ocean chums
he caught a ride on a floating dlish
covered with sweet apple pie crumbs
it flung him with a great swish
across miles of echoing drums
and he landed with a splashy splish
on an ancient orca's rimey gums

Welcome to my nonsense poem and new interest in writing bizarre fantasy staring fish of various sorts. 😆 I wrote this poem for this week’s Wea’ve Written Weekly prompt #67, hosted by David of the Skeptic’s Kaddish. Lesley provided us with this wonderful prompt for the week:

I doubt I’ve invented “splish” or “rimey”, though WordPress and Google apparently loathe both of these words judging by their disapproving little red underlines. But I think I made up “dlish”; or, at least, there is no English meaning for this word. I picture it as a magical flying dish that carries sustenance while transporting a tiny traveler, but you are welcome to imagine what you like.

23 thoughts on “Fishy Adventures”

  8. This is magical. It ought to be in a fairytale. I love it 🥰 🐎❤️

    “it flung him with a great swish
    across miles of echoing drums
    and he landed with a splashy splish
    on an ancient orca’s rimey gums”

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