Best Starfish Poems
Keep making progress
Learn from your losses
Embrace new challenges you'll face
You will always have options
God gave you two legs
So you would'nt be stuck like a starfish
Sad Sammy starfish, all alone on the beach
Wishes to find a soulmate, but no one is in reach
He looks around, raises his hands into the air
Is there a lonely starfish somewhere out there
Suddenly Sammy espies upon a rock
A stunning pink starfish wearing a frock
She's very beautiful of that he's aware
Has he found that special someone out there
He sidles over to her and soon catches her eye
Will she be his playmate; he looks up to the sky
Sammy wants hold her hand and ask her for a date
But which hand would he hold for this starfish has eight!
They head off for a walk together along the golden sand
Strolling along the beach hand in hand in hand in hand
Submitted to Story Poem Contest by Carol Eastman
26th April 2015
A tinge of gold revealed in sunset's blink
upon its face, caressed by foamed bubbles--
marvelous starfish, draped in pearl and pink,
lucent as fluid rails of ocean walls.
I stoop to claim the gift left there for keeps
and hold it to the sky flashed with moonlight ,
to revel in this sculpture from tide's leaps...
its disc gracefully twisting like a kite
where a belly swishes with the ebbing tide
leaving aqua-rocks to glint like dimpled foil:
a glory belonging only to nature, that I
toss it back to its mother, the imperial sea
Brian Strand's :LATE MAR 2018 PREMIERE CONTEST
The starfish that litter the seabed
are the stars that fell
from abandoned Christmas trees;
are the leftovers
of shooting stars that missed;
are stars that have blown off the pages
of homework teachers praised.
On the ocean, when you look up,
you can see the stars blink,
if it is dark enough.
When you peer down, you can see
the sea-stars wink,
if you stare hard enough
to draw their attention.
Starfish pearl of the cobalt deep
Scale the ocean's precipice
Five arms feel each white grain of sand
All tips view light and dark rays
In costal waters day and night
Splendid starfish don't depart
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Contest: Night Creatures
(4) Starfish
Poet: Sara Kendrick
Written: January 14, 2015
The Starfish
By Elton Camp
Starfish in the ocean dwell
Without a brain they do well
With just a simple nerve net
For their needs are all set
They aren’t some lowly worm
But a symmetrical echinoderm
Equipped with a spiny skin
One taste and never again
Predators they need not fear
To them will now come near
Water into their madreporite
Make tube feet work just right
If they get into an oyster bed
Soon, many of them are dead
Oyster shell starfish separate
The contents slyly then ate
Males and females look the same
A mate they’ve no need to name
Both do the things they oughter
Shoot eggs and sperm into water
They will meet in the open sea
The next generation come to be
Offspring they give no care
But have plenty to spare
It could be easy for one to wish
A life as simple as the starfish
Starfish
I woke up this morning, my heart was filled with doubt.
I dreamed last night of love I learned I lived too long without.
An act of desperation in the midst of all my sorrow.
I stepped out in the rain and I cried out to tomorrow.
Why is it that you torment so? When I can clearly see.
Though you wait for someone, you do not wait for me.
I see lovers loving as they go about their way.
Still there is no one for me, at least not for today.
Like sun that hides behind a cloud or dreams just out of reach.
I'm stranded here in yesterday like a starfish on the beach.
Loneliness that lives in me surviving on my sorrow.
Alone I stood there in the rain and cried out to tomorrow.
Edwin C Hofert
The lone starfish writhes,
Forgotten by the vast sea-
It shrivels like skin.
He stared at the starfish flooded at the shore,
wondering whether they really wanted to
drift away from the beautiful ocean depths.
"There's so much beauty to celebrate,"
he thought to himself.
He picked each starfish he could manage,
and threw it into the ocean,
as the ocean currents brought more.
Sometimes he wonders whether his town
got tired of him like the ocean to the starfish,
belching him out from the land of grazing
to the land the sun never sets.
Sometimes he goes back,
but something tells him that his old town
isn't yet ready for him again....
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song of spring seas
sexy starfish smilingly
samba specialties
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A little red starfish was just as cute as he could be.
lived on the bottom of the deepest part of the sea,
but he was very unhappy in his dark watery home.
He wanted to be a cowboy; his name was Jerome.
He found some seaweed and with it he made a rope
that he needed to catch a seahorse. It was his only hope,
but seahorses swim very fast and Jerome was slow
so he found one sleeping when the tide was very low.
He rode on his horse's back for most of the day,
acting like a real cowboy. It was so much fun to play.
When he got home, he told his Mom about the ride
and she laughed at his story with her eyes open wide.
His Mom said that was neat, and it was time to eat.
She gave him a shrimp then Jerome had a special treat.
When he told his baby brother that he had a horse
Little brother wanted one, and Jerome said, "Of course!"
Two little cowboys rode their horses from shore to shore
across giant waves and sandy bottom of the sea floor.
It was the game they never ever got tired of playing
so Jerome decided in the sea he would be staying.
March 14, 2021
Nursery Rhyme 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Eve Roper
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I'M ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL STARFISH
DYING TO GET TO THE BEACH
TRYING TO FIND MY PASSION
OR FIND THE TREASURE BENEATH
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A STARFISH MISSING ALL OF THE BEAUTIFUL SAND
SOMETIMES I FEEL SO ALONE,AS IF I HAVE NO TRUE FRIENDS
SOMETIMES I FEEL SO ALONE AND I FEEL LIKE IM A STARFISH AWAY FROM HOME
IN A DESSERT WHERE I DON'T BELONG
WANTING TO GET BACK TO THE OCEAN
WANTING TO BE EXACTLY WHERE I'M SUPPOSED TO BE
WANTING THE COURAGE TO JUST BE ME
BUT I GUESS I HAVEN'T MUSTERED UP ENOUGH COURAGE TO JUST ACCEPT
THE TRUTH
THAT I'M NOT A STARFISH,I AM A CHILD OF GOD
AND I CAN START SOMEHTHING GREAT NO MATTER HOW OUT OF PLACE I FEEL
I'M GOD'S CREATION,I AM HIGHLY FAVOURED
SO I WILL LOVE MYSELF
AND LOVE MY NEIGHBORS
AS MY GOD COMMANDED ME TO DO SO
AND STAY IN DAILY DEVOTION
AND THIS LITTLE STARFISH
CAN GO BACK TO THE OCEAN
Who was granted his wish
A Happy Father's Day
I honor you and pray
Time to notice all you have done
To makes us as one
Life has been enjoyed
Filled my heart with so much joy
We still got silly you and me
Built such precious memories
Clearly sent from above
Has always been our love
Love you Daddy
You are my harvest tree that is kept within me
Watch as I have grown
Through every lesson you have shown
Proud to call you Dad
For you are the best I could of had
Never ever ask a starfish for directions
They're at the centre of five intersections
Confusion reigns
But they're not to blame
Their Moms and Pops invented genuflexion
"A STARFISH ON DRY LAND"
she’s filled in the empty
space of my bed.
she’s just given me all of
her pain as she rests her
head on my chest.
she’s here.
her hair is curled and full
of the love she thought was
gone.
in a few minutes, I’ll kiss
her goodnight and we’ll be
one again.
typewriters last and the
owls fly tonight.
I hear the silence of our
youth weeping in the chains
that have been broken.
what took you two so long?
our lips touch.
our hands meet.
our eyes close.
goodnight, my dear,
goodnight.
By: Chicano Eddie