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Manatee Poems - Poems about Manatee

manatee herd

manatee herd 
sailors charmed by their whistling
myth of mermaids

Categories: manatee, appreciation, myth, sound,
Form: Senryu

Sweet Potato Manatee

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 we never saw one that far north…
or for that matter…buried in the ground.

We joked as a family as to how

Categories: manatee, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Manatee Lagoon

We went to Manatee Lagoon
But it was not quite opportune 
For if there was a manatee,
It wasn’t there for us to see.

To make the best of getting there,
An hour’s drive to who-knows-where,
We took some pictures (smile, please!)
Beside some sculptured manatees.

So looking back, those photos will
Remind me that we can fulfill
Some journeys that we undertake
With memories

Categories: manatee, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

One With the Ocean

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; borne of eternal-mind;
the consciousness of the universe resides in every soul.
A spiritual connection deeper than life
each grain of sand holds

Categories: manatee, animal, nature, ocean, poems,
Form: Free verse

Manatee

Machiavellian schemes besmirch a murky mangrove calm
A propeller breaks the tranquil glass over an underwater farm
Neath the broken still, a peaceful giant stirs with alarm
and no consolation is found as noise churns it's quiet charm

The serene spots need to be augmented for they are our balm
Ecosystems need protection from greedy developers’ harm
Empyrean Earth for all,

Categories: manatee, angst,
Form: Monorhyme

Death By Manatee

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 as they seem in Poe’s fantasy
Much as in life, we trade one monster for the next
And for unlucky blokes, there’s

Categories: manatee, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Manatee 'Neath Bridge

manatee 'neath bridge

endangered species rebounds --

sighting evokes joy




*Entry for Carol Brown's Nature Haiku contest

Categories: manatee, animals
Form: Haiku

The Gentle Manatee

In southern waters
as an endangered species 
the manatee swims

Categories: manatee, animals
Form: Haiku

Manatee Or Mermaid

Goodbye .....
she whispered from afar
The wind took words away
and scattered them
 along the beach
where lovers used to play

 I chased the syllables and nouns
I gathered up the thoughts
but currents in the water found
the letters I had caught

I still can't understand or hear
the bubbles  that she blew,
landing lightly  on the waves
a surface love so

Categories: manatee, funny, on writing and
Form: Couplet