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Best Mermaids Poems

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Premium Member She's Always Drawing Mermaids
She’s always drawing mermaids, and they bear
resemblance to their artist, for each one
is but a girl. Dark, wavy, thick, long hair
hides pre-pubescent breasts; Elysian
the islands...

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Categories: mermaids, sad,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Mermaids' Omen
There once were mermaids hailing from Crete
The Aegean Sea they'd rule so sweet
        They'd enchant with their chant
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Categories: mermaids, fantasy, lust, myth, sea,
Form: Limerick
Mesmerizing Mermaids
The seas softly speak with voices that talismanically tweak,
Magical maids in their mystique porpoises of their physique…
Ambient aqua-marine waving seductresses of their craving,
A splashing sylph...

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Categories: mermaids, beautiful, fish, sexy, women,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mermaids Are Real
NOT For contest, wrote this on the beach today and realised I'd wrote over the 20 line max, thought I'd post it anyway. 


What follows...

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Categories: mermaids, boat, family, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mermaids
Mermaids

Mermaids swimming in a school
‘neath the ocean blue
locks of gold and scales of jewel
sunlight streaming through.

Sailor’s dream this vision is,
sirens of the deep;
playing in the...

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Categories: mermaids, dream, fantasy, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Mermaids Heart
Mermaid Heart 

Mermaid on the moon: 
come see me soon. 
I am fading in the night, 
losing my light, 
I am torn in two pieces;...

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Categories: mermaids, imagination, love, passion, sea,
Form: Free verse



The Mermaids Ball .
The  mermaids  ball  music  still  lingers .

Swordfish  Fred  and his shoal  of  sweet singers

Had  a...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mermaids, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Space Mermaids
The elliptical sea, ageless, timeless without fathoms depth
Of the eternal degree, its finite waves ushering against the
Everlasting shore of tranquility’s rush, a liquid vacuum of...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mermaids, adventure, art, beauty, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mermaids
Mermaids swim between
     Ladders of twisted seaweed
          Beneath the blue sea....

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Categories: mermaids, fishing,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Mermaids
Beautiful mermaids: 
Mythical ocean dwellers.
Why don't they have gills? 

Mythical mermaids-- 
If real, are they then friendly, 
Or are they Sirens? 

Caught you a mermaid?...

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Categories: mermaids, animal, magic, mythology, science
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Mermaids
From beneath foam and spray, where the
Sun light never penetrates, in fathom's chilly forbidden
Realm lies a kingdom of golden coral reefs.
Poseidon’s children of the murky...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mermaids, beautiful, fantasy, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mermaids Secret Stash
mermaids secret stash
her iridescent buttons
mother of pearl...

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Categories: mermaids, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Haenyeo - Real-Life Mermaids of Jeju
Thus seen, far past one's own

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Categories: mermaids, appreciation, courage, ocean, society,
Form: Couplet
Mermaids
Those Floridans, the manatees
Love playing in the surf … 

First cousins to the elephant – 
The only ones on Earth!...

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Categories: mermaids, animals, children, funny
Form: Epigram
Where the Sea Meets the Sky
At the end of the world where the sea meets the sky,
there's a small strip of land where the mermaids lie.
Where they  chit and...

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© Wayne Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mermaids, dark, humor,
Form: Rhyme