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...

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Oh, to fly underwater - to ply the deepest oceans!
          To navigate sunbeams like temple pillars,
...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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