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Best Giant Squid Poems

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Premium Member Giant Squid of San Francisco
Giant Squid
In warm waters
Alarmed divers don't saunter
Never faulter
To escape

San Francisco Bay
Quietly they come
Inquistive by nature
Diving can be dangerous

Grab diver pull down to deep water
In fear...

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Categories: giant squid, nature
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Tentacles
In the heart of the blackest abyss, down, 
Down, in fathoms deep crypt, where light
Does not penetrate, and the structured protective hauls,
Of men, are crushed...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: giant squid, boat, fantasy, halloween, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hope For Nessie
Oh, dear Nessie, how you captivate us
when you rise up within the Loch Ness shores.
You swim and slither just above the surface,
serpentine and solid to...

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Categories: giant squid, animal, myth,
Form: Free verse
God's Majestic and Wide
God's Majestic and Wide

        Breathe in an ocean so vast and so grand where seagulls and seashells sprinkle...

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Categories: giant squid, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Rhyme
Someone Had To Create It All
It’s our responsibility,
To help the world survive you see,
It’s urgent, because after all,
Someone had to create it all.

Of every leaf on every tree
Reflecting pure symmetricality
Throughout...

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Categories: giant squid, appreciation, god, nature,
Form: Kyrielle



Beyond the Breakers
To the naked eye all you can see,
is the breakers coming ashore individually,
but as I dive in one of them and start to tread,
my imagination...

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Categories: giant squid, beach, ocean,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Beware the Kraken
Legends abound from society to society
But Norwegians have one that evokes great anxiety

A mythical sea monster of immense proportions
May be fifty-feet long, or its size...

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Categories: giant squid, animal, mystery, sea,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Yarns of a Seafaress
Hemingway’s famous “Old Man and the Sea”
Simply couldn’t hold a candle to me
     I caught Ahab’s great white whale
  ...

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Categories: giant squid, funny, sea,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Lake Chronicles of Sean Mcdougal
Sean McDougal is eight years old and has a special 'something' about him that is so endearing it's very difficult for me to deny him...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: giant squid, child, imagination,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Oceans
I often think about Earth's oceans- deep
and taking up three-quarters of its size.
Our continents are islands in the sweep
of water worlds- alive beneath our skies.

Great...

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Categories: giant squid, mystery, ocean, surreal, world,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member My Favorite Devonshire
Yarns Of A Seafaress

Hemingway's famous "Old Man and the Sea"
Simply couldn't hold a candle to me
    I caught Ahab's great white whale
...

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Categories: giant squid, friendship,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Fish's Viewpoint
Undersea exploration comes to me in my dreams
As a fish in the deep I see only faint sunbeams

Enough light there is to reveal a lost...

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Categories: giant squid, mystery, sea, me, fish,
Form: Couplet
Sperm Whale
Creature of deep seas
Battle scars from giant squid
A rare appearance
Stay well hidden from whalers
Inspiration of Melville.


A. Green...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: giant squid, nature
Form: Tanka
Premium Member I Choose Something Fun To Kill Me
Many things could kill you.
Car wrecks, fall from a roof, electrocution,
starvation, heart attack, brain cancer, Alzheimer’s.
I shall choose something fun to kill me.
Walking the plank,...

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Categories: giant squid, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Through the Eyes of a Whale
The journey of me
Your about to read
Migration of we
To rich grounds to feed
 
Vast waters
Gifted of blue
Humpback and right
My cousins true
 
In hunger dive
After giant...

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Categories: giant squid, animals, inspirational, nature, seajourney,
Form: Rhyme

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