Best Manatees Poems

PLEASE SAVE US MANATEES
     By The Poets Listed After the Poem

Practically perfect people in speedboats tease us manatees.
Long ago, as “mermaids,” we could swim the seas free as the breeze.
Even though propellers have replaced natives' canoe paddles,
A manatee's underwater world need...

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Manatees Are Born

In rainbow sparkles
Which twinkle beneath water.
Mirroring rivers.

©  Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
December 7, 2009...

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When one of the first settlers asked a Native American, 
“What do you call this land?”
He shrugged his shoulders and scratched his head…
“It has no name…
it’s shared by all
we call it ours.”he said. 

The other day we visited sacred Indian mounds built by people we...

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