Poem prompt from @nowhereink use the words tuna, melt & gourmet…
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Like one of my favorite books
Baited by sparkle and hooks
Rages the fight between tuna and man
As timeless as waves lapping the sand
Broken and beaten the fish lost its fight
Before becoming a shark’s tasty delight
No Gourmet chef needed to enhance
The saddening display of its circumstance
Tethered, helpless and served in the raw
The man utterly breathless by what he saw
Returning to port with nothing but bones
While people taunted in doubtful tones
By the end of this tale who did you choose?
Did you want man or fish to lose?
For me the whole tale melted my heart
Learning how each had been torn apart
(Photo credit: Photo by Çağatay Demir on Unsplash)
Literary Arts by K.G. Petrone 
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