The Lion’s Share

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Lionfish
Bright and colorful
Heads turned as you approached
Bringing smiles of approval
Confident, knowing
You surveyed your surroundings

Those flashy, fishy fins tipped with venom
And long sexy spines
With powerful neurotoxins
To disarm your prey
Beautiful to the eye
But deadly and poisonous 


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Mish is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse and has prompted us with something ‘fishy’.

A quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, excluding the title.

Published by Christine Bolton

I have been writing poetry since I was a child and it has helped in the good times and bad times. I am always looking within to find the answers to life's problems and to write thought-provoking poetry and prose. Thanks for checking it out. Christine

26 thoughts on “The Lion’s Share”

  2. An amazing, beautiful fish, but I’d prefer to encounter it on the other side of the aquarium glass, Christine! I love the alliterative ‘flashy, fishy fins’.

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  6. Christine, I really like the contrast in this—how the lionfish’s beauty draws you in while danger pulses just beneath. That line “flashy, fishy fins tipped with venom” especially stands out to me—it’s playful and ominous at once.

    ~David

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