Best Stingray Poems

Looking at an old photo of myself at age 13,
I see a girl, rail-thin, but on the verge of womanhood.
Her hair hangs in long pigtails...

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STINGRAY

She took you for a ride on the wild side
Taking you through bushels and thorns
You endured the pain of the splinter and shrubs
Swerving through highways...

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the new bike for which

all summer

I worked my bum off


Sept. 30, 2018 for Maureen McGreary's Biker's Dozen Poetry Contest

*Bum can be replaced also by the...

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WHO IS THE GIANT OF THEM ALL

Animals or humans, who is the giant of them all?
Bearing a two sheathed wings, the Hercules Beetles
crash the Titans...

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From
our pink deck with a Jarra  cocktail table-set
We sit awaiting  sunset with an
 ‘Hawaiian absence’ of seagulls
As dusk comes  with violet echoes
across...

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Deep down below in the shadowy sea
a solitary mermaid hides herself from the human eye.
She spends her days swimming amongst the majestic whales,
and playing with...

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If I were a Mermaid

If I were a Mermaid my name would be Margo and I’d live in the deepest blue sea 
 I’d swim...

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God's Majestic and Wide

        Breathe in an ocean so vast and so grand where seagulls and seashells sprinkle...

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One word
                       ...

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I hated my payday
Creditors I couldn't pay
The pain I felt was like one of a stingray
O! Lord I pray
This misery can't stay

Please flee
Hear my plea
Look...

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More than a bird, more than a plane, I am superman, I know I can today.

I can be free, I can fly into the heavens...

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Smoke ‘em if you got them.
Save the bottles for return.
That hippie needs a haircut.
What the hell’s a Lady Bird?
My Christmas tree had bubble lights, 
My...

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A kayak floats on the glassy water
through the maze that is the Thousand Islands. 
Water drips off the paddle as it rises in the clean...

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A kayak floats in lazy elegance
through the vastness of the Thousand Islands. 
Water drips off its paddle as it rises in the air.
A breeze pushes...

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On our globe of life
Animal and plant
Protection for them
To us they grant
 
Venom's and poisons
To defend and deter
Whether scaled
Leafed or fur
 
Reactions can be
Ultimate and...

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