Algae
See those algae grow,
In grandeur seabed green form
What a scenery!
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Categories:
algae, beauty, nature, sea,
Form: Haiku
Fifty Thousand Cells You Are Wrong
Fifty thousand cells? You’re wrong!
No. It’s true, their leader said.
We’re set in jelly, thick and long.
Flagella’s push us through water.
We’re fifty thousand strong.
You look like green algae and dead!
Volvox laughed in a happy song.
Amusing my wiser daughter.
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Categories:
algae, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Algae
Both you and I breathe the ocean, inhaling the waves,
With each surf passing through our lungs
we are immersed and each verse of our life is told through the rolling tide,
At the depths of our love desperate vibrations boom within our ears,
Yet tears always fall silently on sodden ground,
The sea whispers ripples of our
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Categories:
algae, anxiety, appreciation, friendship love,
Form: Rhyme
Algae Bloom
The dance commences, I retreat a step
Shattered from archaic engulfing patterns
You cha cha your storm forward in
Swirls of ancient abandonment and as
I skip back another, gasping for sufficient safety from suffocation,
You unfurl your blitz clawing the lioness’ leash
You decipher my terror and it emboldens your raging compulsion
Which suspends our inner children in connected cocoons and
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Categories:
algae, allegory, humanity, imagery, relationship,
Form: Couplet
Algengrün/Green Algae/Algas Verdes
Im flachen Wasser
Ernährt die hungrigen Enten
Wallendes Algengrün
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In shallow water
Nourishing the hungry ducks
Floating green algae
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En agua baja
Alimentando los patos hambrientes
Algas verdes flotando
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Categories:
algae, animals
Form: Haiku
Algae
Hop scotch not
Possible with these
Skinned knees
Bleeding.
Fish kisses wiping
Away the disparity and
Dismissing the
Consequence.
Admonishment so
Wholesome and
Irreverent.
Buried into the
Pillow now
Feathers disrobe.
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Categories:
algae, angst
Form: Free verse