Best Nessie Poems

Oh, dear Nessie, how you captivate us
when you rise up within the Loch Ness shores.
You swim and slither just above the surface,
serpentine and solid to many eyes,
yet, still a myth in any reference book.

But what about the Giant Squid?
It too, a myth that started long...

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Where are you, Nessie?
You, have lived so long, 
an eternal legend…
Neptune’s companion.

Have humans murdered you?
Has oil’s black-death, 
slick suffocated you?
Perhaps Fukushima’s burn,
has scorched your scales or 
completely, nuked you?

Oceans of man-made chemicals,
frack-cracked earth may have fried you, 
as you swam, unsuspecting.

Toxic, boiling waters,
are no way...

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His slender serpentine neck, silently sliced through the surface tension,
sending ripples stirring in the calm waters of Loch Ness,
He was jittery; leery of being seen.

But, a pudgy-faced moon spun its light into a ribbon
of golden filigree that shimmered,
and danced across the waves.
Its beauty was such...

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In the Land O' Scots nigh auld Iverness,

   Cavorts a lass named Nessie in Loch Ness!

      Is this sly dragon fer real,

         Er jes' an overgrown eel?

   ...

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Nessie, Wattie and Kin
 
A full ten years before Nessie was first sighted
Colonel Arthur Trimble visited Loch Watten
A dark, looming shape Trimble’s interest ignited
It’s now speculated Nessie has some twins
 
Oceanographers say that before the Ice Age
Loch Ness was connected to the Atlantic sea
So let...

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Five fingers,
ten toes,
two eyes, 
one nose,
one tongue,
and two teeth 
What have I just described?
The Loch Ness Monster (aka loch nessie)...

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Well I remember yon fine day
down by the deep Loch Ness.
I cast my fly so far away
which soon caused me distress.

Instead of hooking trout out there
on mud banks thick and messy.
Stepped through flat fish floundering where
I had to battle Nessie.

I wrestled her as you have...

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Clouds no longer shroud the moon
 Where mountains rise from west and east
 And moonlight's silvery glow is strewn
 Casting light upon the beast

 In Luna's glow the monster basks
 Its neck protruding from the water
 It's rarely seen by those you ask
A legend lingering...

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early morning’s moon

hovers high above Loch Ness

in a clouded sky. . . 

caught in its light is a sight

too swan-like for a monster


Dec. 26, 2017 for the Loch Ness Contest of Thvia Shetley...

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They say, “Nessie is dead”, 
because there haven’t been sightings, for years.
Ogopogo still lives, as does M’okele M’bembe.
What if they are one in the same?

Oceans, caves and caverns,
are spanning the globe; 
what lies within its bowels,
remains undefined.

Perhaps, “Nessie”, tires of being ogled;
spends the summers in...

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Well this is my story from way back
you'll probably have heard about me
there's been quite a few sightings
over the years people wonder what they see

Many books have been written
so many opinions if I'm real or not
for I'm what I am no matter what
despite everything I've...

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Fiction or fiction? I say fiction

how about youse guys?

most people WANT to believe in magic

so they keep the door open

no harm and sure does boost

tourism dollars for those thrifty Scots

don't blame them do you?

to this day, Anne Boleyn still haunts

the Tower of London

who are we...

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searching for her mate
a lone beast questions the moon…
replied in a flash
go nessie to your own time
where the world believes in you

© Harry J Horsman  2018...

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It is a moonlit night
in my dream,
and the water is still with no ripples.

The Loch Ness is
a large, deep waterway
in the Scottish Highlands.
This is where
Nessie
lives, so it is said, anyways.

No one is really sure
if Nessie is for real or just folklore.
Some say
it is a hoax.
Some...

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There’s an ancient
thing of wisdom
in a cavern
in the sea;
deep down in murky waters
lying, sleeping peacefully.

At times it will awaken
take a travel-contemplation
or perhaps a short vacation
to collect new wisdom-seeds.

Sometimes it peeks
out from beneath
those liquid silvery waves;
then it dives and waters quiver;
just like diamonds on a river.
Then...

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