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Best Florida Keys Poems

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Florida Keys Please
No litter, no rules, no society scent,
just peninsula pure soul content, ideally lent.
Awed and wowed with arms stretched wide,
I stand on Key’s narrow road, on...

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Categories: florida keys, appreciation, beauty, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Were Going To the Florida Keys
Were going to the Florida Keys! Were going to Florida Keys!
As I mentioned we were on our way to the Florida Keys... 
it was my...

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Categories: florida keys, father, feelings, fish, fishing,
Form: Acrostic
Florida Keys- Blue
The bluest ocean I've ever seen
well in some spots there were shades of green
The Oceans apart from life's dreary breeze.
I'm talking about the Florida Keys.

I...

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Categories: florida keys, nostalgiablue, time,
Form: Acrostic
Florida Keys
There was a mean, old alligator
Who chanced upon young Master Baitor
Both of them noted
Pheromones floated
When traipsing by came May B. Layder...

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Categories: florida keys, animal, boy, food, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Heave Ho and Yo Ho Ho
There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
...

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Categories: florida keys, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bobcat Moon
She sits on the porch in a cool desert night
A bobcat stalks prey in the day's fading light
The moon looks like a big orange in...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: florida keys, autumn, friendship, loss, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Travel Symphony
Flutes, ahead laying the routes
Oboes they off to Villalobos
Harps, dusting off vessel tarps
Violin silenced by engine din
Cello, matching the revving bellow
Piano sad in the canoe
Clarinets...

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Categories: florida keys, humor, humorous, travel, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gutting
My father hauled a dead sea turtle
     from a beach in the Florida Keys
       ...

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Categories: florida keys, boy, childhood, family, father,
Form: Free verse
Adrift At Sea
For years this ship has been sailing the seas
From the beaches of Hawaii to the Florida Keys
With no land in sight and no view of...

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Categories: florida keys, boat, hope, love, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Florida Nature
Florida Nature

It was recently that I departed from the noise and same routine,
Our ancestors beckoned me – to visions they had seen.

I found myself surrounded...

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Categories: florida keys, bird, boat, earth, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Paradise Island
Our destination is an island out there
In an ocean of blue with sands so fair
It has everything you would want on a paradise isle
Scenery so...

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Categories: florida keys, life, nature, people, placesbeautiful,
Form: Quatrain
Gator Bait Series 1st Cold Snapped
The wind was blowing when she left the city...

I believe it was twenty below...

Where she was going she already knew...

But... first she had things she...

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© Kj Force  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: florida keys, abuse, anger, best friend,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Native of Florida's Reefs
A Native of Florida's Reefs

I am the native of the Florida Keys and Bahamas
People here call me mero and not goliath grouper
Once a scuba diver...

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Categories: florida keys, animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Turnabout Is Fair Play - Getting Away With Murder
The guy she hired to do me in,
unbeknownst to her,
was one of the blokes on Friday nights
with whom I played poker.

All this time she thought...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: florida keys, mystery, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Gator Bait Series 3rd the Dream Scheme
Just a Thought......20 below can be a temp......20 below can also " tempt"

Sometimes we have a life long dream...

but not sure where to start....

and sometimes...

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© Kj Force  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: florida keys,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things