Lovely Penguin

I’m not sure why I keep writing about sea creatures.  I suppose I must relate to them in some bizarre way… Either way, I hope you enjoy my poem about the minnow

Minnow dance
By R. Marie Gordon

I am just a minnow
Sometimes my fins wobble
When the whitecaps catch me
Salty glittering stripes
Flicker under the froth
Darting to catch a breath
Dodging pelican swoops
I do this dance for me
I swoosh and swerve and swim
My gills puffing bubbles
Into the glossy seas
Swallowing me in blue
A silver swimming speck
Miniature fins pumping
Against enormous swells
A flying dart winking
At the sea gulls glaring
Dipping under buoys
Evading feathered bombs
Swerving minnow fins blink
A glittery shadow
A sweeping box step swish
Which pauses as the tide recedes
To remember her only line:
I do this dance for me

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