Best Reef Poems

Pacific beauty, garland of shimmering pastels  
Textures and colors astound, deep in your ocean heart 
Your court is larger than any kingdom on Earth 
And hosts grand balls and parties, 
Shimmering schools of fish dance in unison 
Anemones gather by the thousands
Each more vibrant...

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The unceasing roar
Surf and coral,
hitting the shore

This underwater show
This blaze of colour,
roar of surf.... so

Coral reef home,
so many fish,
blue sea foam,
this is my wish............

This living  breathing reef,
surrounded by sea so blue
Living breathing jewel,
you want to be it too

Crashing of sea,
exploding white foam
I want this...

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low tide

dawn's golden shimmer reveals

a coral reef...

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People always ask we
What's the square root of 100
Honestly I don't know
probably like 20 or somesh=t...

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Blot this glassy water
With clotted blood;
Dive down, screaming;
Wish upon a starfish;
Stretch my gills and make them lungs;
Make me man, not manta;
Wipe the seaweed from my lips;
Save me, tangled, from your coral.

I have never seen the coral reefs,
Yet I am certain
It is a barrier, 
Cuts the...

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I can only imagine 
How it looks from outer-space,
Our world's biggest coral reef;
A huge sapphire sparkling;

I can only imagine
How it feels to go swimming,
Alongside all those life forms;
Who call the Great Reef their home

Someday I hope to visit 
this big beautiful wonder;
then something real is...

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more glorious than any painting
the coral reef puts a psychedelic trip to shame
schools of fish swim by, ...were they sapphire or cobalt?
their bio luminous look fascinates me
they are gone before I can gather my thoughts

a swarm of cherry heads my way
fierce fish with a hot...

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Ultraviolet hues
in purple skies
and the turquoise waves
bow in admiration...
Here,
there are different ones,
lives beneath the tranquil
waters of a
coral reef.

A plethora of
color burst flora and fauna, 
secreting itself from 
prying eyes...

Protectorate of the inland's;
promoting life 
in Gaia’s womb.
Sadly, 
the thing it protects
the most,
land and its dwellers;
disregard such
majesty;
being...

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Barge Reef 

Barge Reef lies isolated at worlds end by chance
Wedges of sharp rocks fill in what ocean can’t

Eighty foot waters roll at a distance out
Waves say hello on cresting white

Coral formed and bleached silent
Created from living life forms 
On the wrong side of the...

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The unceasing roar 
Surf and coral, 
hitting the shore 

This underwater show 
This blaze of colour, 
roar of surf.... so 

Coral reef home, 
so many fish, 
blue sea foam, 
this is my wish............ 

This living  breathing reef, 
surrounded by sea so blue 
Living breathing...

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a massive coral reef just off the shore
of a tiny island in the South Pacific
a tropical reef filled with sea life galore
breathtaking and stunningly majestic
like an enormous rainforest on the sea floor

rare kaleidoscope of colorful sea creatures
a fishdom of seldom seen underwater life
even a crevice...

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Turtle cruises the reef,
turquoise warm in the sun;
tendrils of coral stretch to
sup filtered light.

Butterflyfish and Tang
intermingle amid coral polyps,
that are plentiful appetizers
for this party.

As sponges get their rays,
a seahorse uncoils and jettisons itself
just overhead of a yawning mussel.

I giggle to myself as an angelfish kisses
my...

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  all time stopped
        ravenged* by what had gone before
a chance given to take a breath
              gravity suspended
      ...

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Cascade of colors swirls in a fishy maze,
a tank of topicals swim the watery haze;
as a plastic diver opens his treasure,
what's inside is strictly his pleasure.

Tetra's dream of tasty bites
Swordtails dine to their delight;
albino Catfish sweeps the gravel,
as bright corals do bedazzle.

As bright guppies wiggle,...

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Take a stand and save the world
Recycle that plastic bottle
Help clean up the ocean
And join in the battle
Reduce your use of single use
Commit to end the waste
Reduce the ocean garbage patch
Deliberately make haste
The coral reefs are dying
All around the world
In twenty years they might be...

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