I wish I was a fish ?
To be caught and eaten by humans or devoured by a predator .
Not to mention a much shorter life than a human.
The only characteristics of a fish I'd want is being able to breathe underwater and be able to withstand the cold temps and water pressure of diving deep into the ocean. Would be cool to see the Titanic from a fishes point of view .
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if you could get away with a life that consisted of only:
- swimming all the time
- eating seafood all the time
- hanging with a school of friends all the time
- "spawning" all the time
- sleeping all the time
- floating in the warm sun all the time
would you do it? I sure as heck would.
'Cause fishes have a better life than people.
They don't have all the care and strife of people,
A fish can swim,
That's all they ask of him.
A fish is free
To roam around the sea,
And look for love wherever he can find it.
He flirts with every lady fish
As she goes swimming by,
And if she gives her tail a swish and winks a fishy eye,
A minnow all at once can be a whale of a guy.
I wish, I wish I were a fish.
Good points, everyone. Nice poem, rorysa.
Now, let's try a "Sonnet for the Landed" persons....
To live beneath the level sea to me does not sound very pleasin'
I would not wish to swim with fish for any certain reason.
A dove, a lamb, a colt, a tree, a little girl or boy
Would all place higher on the list of morphs I might enjoy.
The closest to the stream I'd get might be a mountain otter,
So then I'd not be forced to sink nor breathe that fountain water.
It might be nice to drift the globe, to wander to Nairobia
'Cept for Somalian pirate threats plus compound Aquaphobia.
One fish I see; two fish I saw; three sea of shell I thought I saw,
But if a fish I wish I were, I shall not see the seesaw.
When Jonah fell into the sea, the whale saw more than he saw;
If Jonah's anything like me, we'd still forsake Vichyssoise.
And if magic wands turn us into fish, I'd break the wand and crimp it
Unless, of course, there's one reserved for the Incredible Mister Limpet.
"What we are is God's gift to us; what we become is our gift to God" -- Eleanor Powell
CUTE! Really funny stuff and nice job.
It's entirely possible that I am missing the point of your message.
When I was a child, this was one of my favorite films and I, too, wanted to be a fish. I ignored the scary parts, of course, and dreamed about hours swimming underwater and looking at all the lovely plants, shells, and rocks. I thought about how the sun pieces the water with columns of light and heat where particles danced up and down. It seemed so ideal.
shareI, too, dreamt of being a fish, for some reason. Loved the water, loved the ocean. Even having three goldfish named Snip, Snap and Snurr as a child, made me happy and sad at the same time; happy just b/c they were fish and they were mine, and sad, b/c they were stuck in that bowl. I always wanted a large aquarium filled with lovely fish (ala Mr. Limpet), but both husbands gave that idea a thumbs-down. So....TIML is and has always been in my Top 5, and I've sung "I Wish I Were A Fish" to my children and grandchildren since their births. Thanks, Don Knotts, for a wonderful performance and a wonderful motion picture!
share"What? Leave this terror - ridden ocean for a life of ease and security? Are you out of your mind?" --Al Jaffee
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