Giant Squid Poems

List of New Poems

PM	Poem Title	Poet	Form	Categories
	Hope For Nessie	Sandra Haight	Free verse	giant squid, animal, myth,
	Beyond The Breakers	cheryl hoffman	Light Verse	giant squid, beach, ocean,
	The Lake Chronicles of Sean McDougal	Lin Lane	Prose	giant squid, child, imagination,
	underlings winging wearing wungspans walk WOW	Taoi Chanan	I do not know?	giant squid, computer,
	TENTACLES	cherl dunn	Free verse	giant squid, boat, fantasy, halloween, history,
	Beware the Kraken	Carolyn Devonshire	Couplet	giant squid, animal, mystery, sea,
	My Favorite Devonshire	Robert L. Hinshaw	Limerick	giant squid, friendship,
	A Fish's Viewpoint	Carolyn Devonshire	Couplet	giant squid, mystery, sea, me, fish,
	Yarns of a Seafaress	Carolyn Devonshire	Limerick	giant squid, funny, sea,
	Sperm Whale	Amy Green	Tanka	giant squid, nature
	Through the Eyes of a Whale	James Fraser	Rhyme	giant squid, animals, inspirational, nature, seajourney,
	Giant Squid of San Francisco	Sara Kendrick	Acrostic	giant squid, nature
	A Continuation of ‘On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness'	Melissa Ross	I do not know?	giant squid, history, loss, nostalgia, time,

Giant Squid Poem Example

TENTACLES

In the heart of the blackest abyss, down, 
Down, in fathoms deep crypt, where light
Does not penetrate, and the structured protective hauls,
Of men, are crushed beneath pressures massive
Weight, of the oceans deepest depth.
This is truly inner spaces aquatic zone of the
Unknown, a realm of stilled silence frozen
In the icy currents of the barren straights.
Where prehistoric giants dwell, amongst the
Tidal flow, ambush predators, forgotten beasts,
From long ago, living krakens whom devour
All life, hidden within their dark domain.
In Poseidon's mighty anger, the waves answer,
To his fists of fury, hurricanes wrath of vengeance,
Gives birth to the perfect storms rage, 
Vessels rise and than fall in the tidal surging
Waters.
Nay do the sailors cry out to the Lord God on high, 
For redemption's salvation, but the sacrificial altars must
Be appeased, by flesh and bloods sacred offerings.
Summons does the mighty lord of the seven seas,
To release the last of the ancient Leviathans.
Two thousand hands, of a thousand dead men,
Heave and pull at the tethering heavy chains,
To this devil of the depths cage.
From within interments vaulted keep,
Captivities living spawn from hell, is 
Unshackled and released, to reek havocs
Devastation above.
An aquatic spider, a maritime widow maker,
Flexing and in-flexing, its body’s motions,
Towards the surface, in pulsations rhythmic
Orchestrations, the gray giant is ready to strike,
With its killing arms extended wide, to grapple
At its unprotected prey, to engorge itself with
All living matter that it surveys, within its icy reach.
As bubbles shoot upwards breaking the waters
Surface, suction cups and talon claws are drawn
Outwards, aligning his eight legged tentacles of bone
Crushing death, behold the Giant Squid, instrument of
Lethal torture, a living killing machine from the fathoms 
Deepest depths.
For it is the beast, the true essence of evil
Incarnate, and none survive its destructive wrath.

BY: CHERYL ANNA DUNN

Poem Copyright © cherl dunn