PROMPT

POMprompt #20 Big Fish, Little Fish

Fishing is one of the oldest metaphors.

Image by Wolfgang Eckert from Pixabay

There’s a whole lot of symbolism in fish and fishing topics found throughout literature, including poetry. Thoreau, Hemmingway, and even Dr. Seuss found fish to be a topic worthy of great explorations. I, too, have written often about fish symbols within the body of my work.

This POMprompt is simple: write your own poem using any of the topics or symbolism of fish and fishing within the context of your poem, either directly or metaphorically (as in the two poems of mine, listed below.)

Take it a step further and read something classic on this topic — whether a book, a poem, or a few literature quotes. Search for fishing topics right here on Medium and see what you find. Go down that fishing hole and see what you find to inspire you today. What bounty of inspiration?

Directions for how to POMprompt at the bottom of this post and here.

Below are some things to get you inspired!

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after,” Henry David Thoreau.

Fishing is a big topic in literature and the arts