Long Manatee Poems

Have you swam the forests      under the seas
glided it's waters             wandered it's keys
watched the gray giants  ...

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Sitting by the bay during a weekday watching the water I thought a manatee I observed
Just beneath the surface, it came up for just a few seconds and didn’t reemerge. 
I followed it with my...

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ever hear those obnoxious individuals claim that a lot of
people killing themselves around the 
“holidays” is a myth?
ever see them walk with self-righteousness
as if they shouldn’t be bothered with the very idea that others in...

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Each year Deborah and I share one Christmas tradition-we do this religiously.
Together the day after Thanksgiving we buy our Christmas Tree.

As we head out to purchase our tree we are filled with anticipation
for we know...

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PLEASE SAVE US MANATEES
     By The Poets Listed After the Poem

Practically perfect people in speedboats tease us manatees.
Long ago, as “mermaids,” we could swim the seas free as the breeze.
Even though...

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Like many families who believe in Christmas 
either religious or spiritually
Deborah and I set out each year 
in search of our perfect tree.

And we usually find it right away…
with so many trees to choose this...

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I love a good game of peek-a-boo…it’s quite simple but it’s excitement is immense…all you need are your two hands, your face…and a baby’s innocence.

You hide your face behind your hands…you’re gone…the baby doesn’t know...

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Annabelle Albatross’s amazing aquatics astound audiences at Atlantic airshows.

Bill Beaver’s barrel-rolling barely bumps bobbing buoys.

Crustaceans crowd cramped coves.  Charlie Crab cowers, camouflaged creatively.

Dennis Dolphin dives deeply dragging down desirable delicacies.

Elegant electric eels electrify everything....

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I am going on an expedition I told my family sweet.
I might FaceTime, Zoom, Twitter or maybe tweet.
But I have to seek my fortune, so backpacking I will do.
I plan to go to Europe, Scotland,...

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Sailors Rusty and Oz cruise back from the steely shores of the Bahamas, underway and navigating to Key West. Tired from the ship’s routine, duties, and three long months away.  There is a full...

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I imagine one of the first things we did…when we humans realized we were smart
was to give everything a label…so we could tell everything apart.

I’m a human, that’s an elephant, that’s a bird…that’s a manatee.
That’s...

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Today a mountain memory that goes back to a time 
when our children were younger…more carefree
when out of Grandpa’s garden Ali picked her Sweet Potato Manatee.

We live in Florida…where many a manatee can be found…
but...

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Discarded plastic can bring creature alarm.
On the head of a manatee, it has no charm.
Paper comes from trees, lost habitats, poor bee.
Is it just convenience that matters, to thee?

Paper or plastic, what shall it be?
The...

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Sail most by north, by west the least, 
until the moon sets in the east.
There, in a sea the colour of custard, 
ye'll see the Ile de Deux Sans Mustard
where locals speak like buccaneers, 
calling...

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I have stood on many shores
and felt the long evolution of the deepest waves
where life spawns its leaping adaptions.

I have listened
to the trumpeting of great armored sea-bulls
echoing in the shallow bladder-wrack,
and on that splashing surface
invisible...

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They went on a mini vacation…they camped under the trees
to experience the wonders of nature at the springs of Manatee.

Because they are not cave people no matter where they roam
they brought with them their iPads,...

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The hours have been driving me,
I almost miss the exit ramp,
I wake, I sleep.
This kind of waking and sleeping
is controlled by a ghost in my head.

Now I am eyes on the corners
where the flickering sky
swings...

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Abominable Aborigine
Boycotted Baltimore’s Bakery
Canady Canola’s Cannery
Decoded deceitful debauchery

Endless energetic energy
Forwarded farmyard frolicking for a fee
Geographically greeting in Germany
Hardcopy happiness hee hee hee

Ignoring ignorance illegally
Juicy juggling juggernauts
Kettledrums, Kenya and Kentucky
Livening up our literacy
Maniac madness in a...

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Gertrude is the sexiest thing I have ever seen!
The dolphin told me, and not to be mean.
He did not know I had a crush on him.
So I went out with him to the Keys for...

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Whenever I feel the dirge
Moments, days that pass without hope
My pleasure begins to emerge
The moment I pick up the old fishing pole

So much negativity is purged
When the bait lady smiles at me
This special day I...

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Gaia’s womb the ocean,
births her children with aqua love.
Mammalian heartbeats intermingle with
The sound of the tides;
harmonic echoes are recorded in 
every abandoned shell.

The wisdom of those who traverse
this entire world amid the waterways…
immense and timeless;...

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An “Angel of the Odd” curiosity provokes
The Angel of Death is more welcome than he
Wine bottles in a keg?  What is it this angel smokes?
“The narrator’s house,” says Poe with wicked glee

Things are never...

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An Amazon Adventure
A Narrative Poem by C Russell

Let’s go, let’s go to the Amazon far,
We’ll catch a boat, won’t need a car!

Let’s see, let’s see the wildlife here,
Jaguar, anteater and white tailed deer.

Let’s travel, let’s...

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...He swims
in two Centuries
His cold War
of water
An Aeonor, a "one-in-a-thousander"
Survives
- BabyBoomer -
Slowmotioning poisemass
Ballet-imposing-intrepid
like a colossal Pet!

Above & below
Fouled
by plastic Jellyfish, sets 'n nets, 
Toxoids & the toxicrowdy polluted 
"Men-O'-War"
on His Time.

The 5,200 RPM Priapus Phallus,...

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I am old Humanity 
I am old Humanity
 I do not know anything
 but twice I come from
 a heaven a far-off in my
my truth is self depleted
 from skin have no bones 
or Morrow...

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