Best Manta Ray Poems

...TALKING WAVES.

The sound the waves make on the shore
Seem like they’re trying to say,
“I’d never seen this rocky beach
Until I did today.”

“Before that I was out at sea,
Miles and miles awa......

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...Oh, to fly underwater - to ply the deepest oceans!
          To navigate sunbeams like temple pillars,
                    And moonbeams as fingers of soft, blue magic!
                       ......

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...A huge manta ray flies up high
Just over the horizon
Sharing the sky with black baby
Puffins, what's beyond?

The sun sitting in the east waiting
To chase away the night
And remove the cool of......

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...Island, I can see you - distant fine pearl.
We drop harbor anchor, music greets us.
Leis are given by a native grown girl.
We walk ocean street not using road's bus.
Hostel makes us welcomed show......

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...As we walked the warm air broke and swept over me like waves.
I puffed on a sweet cigar 
passing the seafood placed down by the marina.
“we went the wrong way.”
The boats locked behind a cage sat......

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...The channel islands off the coast
of California were my home
on weekends sailing with my dad
on glassy seas, on froth and foam.

On Fridays after work he’d head
to Catalina on the wind.
Someti......

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...FATHER & SON

The indoor soccer arena
was under the glide path 
of the western approach
to the international airport
The still-clever father
made a snide macho comment
to the gold ear-ringed ......

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...glorious orange flashes toward me
she looks so ominous due to being shark-colored too
i feel relief, as I realize what she is
a harmless manta ray
giant of the ocean......

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...My body is flat
I can shock enemies
What am I?
An ocean ray
A sting ray
I am not as large as a manta ray
But I am deadly toward my prey......

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