Manta Ray Poems

I set a contest carefully
called ‘Write about something from under the sea’ -
an octopus or a manta ray!
“A manta ray? What’s that you say?
No, no, I’m absolutely sure
that I’ve written something you’ll like even more...
It’s about my father! Very dark!”
Sure!...Read More

As we walked the warm air broke and swept over me like waves.
I puffed on a sweet cigar 
passing the seafood placed down by the marina.
“we went the wrong way.”
The boats locked behind a cage sat vacant next to the...Read More

Oh, to fly underwater - to ply the deepest oceans!
          To navigate sunbeams like temple pillars,
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Island, I can see you - distant fine pearl.
We drop harbor anchor, music greets us.
Leis are given by a native grown girl.
We walk ocean street not using road's bus.
Hostel makes us welcomed showing no fuss.
Time includes glass bottom boat and...Read More

A huge manta ray flies up high
Just over the horizon
Sharing the sky with black baby
Puffins, what's beyond?

The sun sitting in the east waiting
To chase away the night
And remove the cool of the morn
Give manta ray its flight

Imagination can run frenzied
When...Read More