River Revival
Rest your troubles by the water
when your whole world goes astray
just enjoy the trip down river
as your troubles wash away.
Dragonflies dance on the surface
as the fish bob up to feed
watch the ripples moving outward
and forget about your needs.
© Rebecca Sanchez 2013
Artist unknown.
Trying to join in writing and sharing poetry again with my friends at dVerse~Poets Pub for open link day. Took some time off and trying to get back into it with a share from the past.
tanka #41215 (The Fishwife)
feeling queasy now
butterflies-out of the way
it’s not so easy
I have a belly of fish
that never stop swimming
© Rebecca Sanchez 2015
Linking up an old poem with dVerse~Poets Pub that I wrote for this prompt which I animated.
Background: I had a very interesting word trip when I started this poem and I had to share it with you. When seeing this picture prompt I thought, I’ll write a poem about a woman with fish in her belly or fishbelly. Then I looked it up.
Besides the Jonah in the belly of the whale story, the white skin under a bathing suit line and normal fish bellies, I found this urban definition (2006), fishbelly: a bad name for a white caucasian person. Then I asked for other words and it gave me 20 related to fishbelly.
Honky, bad, caucasian, clit, clitoris, cracka, cracker, craka, fish, fish belly, fishbelly pussy, girl, puberty, pubic, twat, vag vagina, white, whitey, wonderbread. Wow!
If you caught the date, this word was re-defined in 2006. Now fast forward to now with Trump as president. Meanings like this aren’t going anywhere soon.
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