From Songs of the Islands (2005)
These are all the fish I saw one day
when I snorkeled Hanauma Bay:
Bonefish, milkfish, manybar goatfish,
bird wrasse, saddle wrasse, yellowfin surgeonfish,
convict tang, Achilles tang, redlip parrotfish,
moorish idol, Christmas wrasse, flat-tailed needlefish.
Scarface blenny, black sergeant, orangeband surgeonfish,
doublebar goatfish, moray eel, hawkfish,
zebra blenny, sailfin tang, ornate wrasse, trumpetfish,
whitespotted toby, and a whitesaddle goatfish.
Butterflyfish: threadfin, bluestripe, bluehead, milletseed, ornate, fourspot, …raccoon!
Unicornfish, porcupinefish, brown surgeonfish, regal parrotfish, star-eye parrotfish, Picasso triggerfish,
Ringtail, blueline, eye-stripe, gold-ring, and
whitespotted surgeonfish.
These are all the fish I saw one day
when I snorkeled Hanauma Bay!
Click here for more of my fish pictures.
Composed July 19, 2005 by Mark Feezell / DrFeezell.com
Included in Feezell’s poetry collection Songs of the Islands (2005)
Dedicated to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0) 2024
Image: Raccoon Butterflyfish (P3140216)
poetry, Songs of the Islands (2005)
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