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Best Manatee Poems

Below are the all-time best Manatee poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of manatee poems written by PoetrySoup members

The Gentle Manatee

In southern waters
as an endangered species 
the manatee swims...

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Categories: manatee, animals
Form: Haiku

Manatee 'Neath Bridge

manatee 'neath bridge

endangered species rebounds --

sighting evokes joy




*Entry for Carol Brown's Nature Haiku contest...

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Categories: manatee, animals
Form: Haiku

Death By Manatee

An “Angel of the Odd” curiosity provokes
The Angel of Death is more welcome than he
Wine bottles in a keg?  What is it this angel...

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Categories: manatee, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Manatee Or Mermaid

Goodbye .....
she whispered from afar
The wind took words away
and scattered them
 along the beach
where lovers used to play

 I chased the syllables and nouns
I gathered...

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Categories: manatee, funny, on writing and
Form: Couplet

Depth of a Man

(During contemplation)
What are we? Thought the flea,
there must be more than what we see.

(With careful consideration)
Am I free? Thought the bee,
and is there much aside...

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Categories: manatee, fun,
Form: Free verse

The Mermaid The Mirage

Sailors Rusty and Oz cruise back from the steely shores of the Bahamas, underway and navigating to Key West. Tired from the ship’s routine, duties,...

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Categories: manatee, humor, imagination,
Form: Imagism

The Land of Rhyme Remembered

Sail most by north, by west the least, 
until the moon sets in the east.
There, in a sea the colour of custard, 
ye'll see the...

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Categories: manatee, cute, fantasy, sea,
Form: Couplet

Ciel Elise

Ciel, on your birth day ‘twas true to say
Heaven’s bright light rays rain’d down from above
Fast forward to fifteen years to the day
Now it’s you...

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Categories: manatee, birthday, dad, daughter, light,
Form: Sonnet

The Sailors' Mermaid

The Sailors' Mermaid

There once was a manatee named Mary.
She, a mammal was not very hairy.
One day while at sea.
She said this shouldn't be!
So, she bought...

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Categories: manatee, animals, funny
Form: Limerick

Beneath the Surface

Have you swam the forests      under the seas
glided it's waters          ...

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Categories: manatee, boat, creation, earth, fish,
Form: Verse

Fluid Miracle

Sea mother awaits
The warm water is breaking
Manatee calving...

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Categories: manatee, animals, life, mother,
Form: Haiku

Boys In Speedboats

boys in speedboats
racing down the river –
manatee...

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Categories: manatee, animal, boat, hurt,
Form: Haiku

Please Save Us Manatees

PLEASE SAVE US MANATEES
     By The Poets Listed After the Poem

Practically perfect people in speedboats tease us manatees.
Long ago, as “mermaids,”...

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Categories: manatee, nature, recovery from..., sad,
Form: Acrostic

Tortuga (See Turtle-Red-Seaturtlegreen)

...He swims
in two Centuries
His cold War
of water
An Aeonor, a "one-in-a-thousander"
Survives
- BabyBoomer -
Slowmotioning poisemass
Ballet-imposing-intrepid
like a colossal Pet!

Above & below
Fouled
by plastic Jellyfish, sets 'n nets, 
Toxoids &...

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Categories: manatee, animals, death, nature, sad,
Form: Free verse

The Good and the Bad - Paper Or Plastic

Discarded plastic can bring creature alarm.
On the head of a manatee, it has no charm.
Paper comes from trees, lost habitats, poor bee.
Is it just convenience...

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Categories: manatee, animals, nature, people, poetry,
Form: Rhyme