Short Coral Reef Poems

Sign
of
the times-
coral reef
degeneration...

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The full
moon lightens
a coral reef-
pink flotsam colours the
tide....

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low tide

dawn's golden shimmer reveals

a coral reef...

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People always ask we
What's the square root of 100
Honestly I don't know
probably like 20 or somesh=t...

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I came across a coral reef
a seahorse glimpsed
sudden taste for beef

a pregnant pause
'pon gulping down
that dainty horse
  ~ all fifteen pounds...

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Her heart was once 
rose scented diamond shine
everyone was invited in. 
But they ruined her...
Now its enter at your own risk.
Dorsal fins circling a blood bathed coral reef...

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pink coral reef
almost nothing prettier
it looks welcoming
don't be fooled
it is deadly, it can tear you to bits
do not jump down there to test it
if you bleed, sharks will come...

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Intrepid
 convalescent 
spectacle glass eyes 
Coral reef
 terminal grief 
cauterize
In disguise 
skies
Inner planetary bodies blinking their eyes


9/9/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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death strikes from the cover of shadows...by poet.



tight schools of sunfish

swim atop a coral reef...

sharks stalk stray shadows


(Haiku)


03/03/2022


H Forms - Traditional Nature Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Constance La France
"How Many Syllables"...

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The Fish


The fish 
Of coral reef 
Swam in accord in tropical deep
Cultivating harmony 
Yellows, purples and blues 

Vivid, vibrant and hued
Striped black and white 
Neon in the dark of night 

Navigating its terrain 
A freedom of uncertainty 
A big fish paradise 


Marckincia Jean
Free verse 
07/18/19...

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I can only imagine 
How it looks from outer-space,
Our world's biggest coral reef;
A huge sapphire sparkling;

I can only imagine
How it feels to go swimming,
Alongside all those life forms;
Who call the Great Reef their home

Someday I hope to visit 
this big beautiful wonder;
then something real is mine ,
There's no need to imagine....

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If I had a pet shark
I would name him Pete
He and I would swim together in a coral reef
I would point out game, and he would laugh

I would teach Pete how to speak American
I would teach him how to read
so that he could read my little hit list
I would point out who he should eat

I would skip cursive though
No one uses that any more...

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Who can control the gold guppies the fishwisher did ask.
Merwoman Mamie said she might be up to the task.
She had raised some children – mermaids and mermens.
Pretty soon she had the gold guppies doing tricks in their tins.
She does it so easily, observed a coral reef god named Nom.
Maybe because she already has experience as a fantastic mom....

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Small fish die
But don’t you cry
They leave behind their bones
To make a brand new home
Called a Coral Reef

Beautiful bright colors to behold
Such as pink, yellow, orange and gold
A place where many fish live except for the whales
Such as anemones, sponges and snails
Where they hide from the shark with great relief
A place they call home, Coral Reef...

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When None Command

By surging sea and force of wind
A tattered vessel floundered in
Where coral reef performed the rest
In ripping wide her wooden breast.
From timber scream to cracking mast
Her form dismembered to the last
And on the waves her pieces reached
An aftermath of slumber, beached.
She is a silent reprimand
To those who sail
When none command....

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Blot this glassy water
With clotted blood;
Dive down, screaming;
Wish upon a starfish;
Stretch my gills and make them lungs;
Make me man, not manta;
Wipe the seaweed from my lips;
Save me, tangled, from your coral.

I have never seen the coral reefs,
Yet I am certain
It is a barrier, 
Cuts the flesh of drowning sailors,
And is as deadly pretty
As a woman’s hair....

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Take a stand and save the world
Recycle that plastic bottle
Help clean up the ocean
And join in the battle
Reduce your use of single use
Commit to end the waste
Reduce the ocean garbage patch
Deliberately make haste
The coral reefs are dying
All around the world
In twenty years they might be gone
If we remain unconcerned
So take a stand and pick it up
Buy yourself a reusable cup...

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Sweet escape into the mountians 

Forever high the top of the earth
 
Vilently snowing atop vally's below 
 
Sweet escape into the ocean
 
Raging waters 

The coral reef
 
Never ending
 
Beneath the sea
 
Sweet escape into the forest
 
Bark on trees marry magically 

Filled with smells of pine and oak
 
Deep between the crackled ground
 
Sweet escape into the jungle
 
This is my backyard play ground...

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I don’t find words. 
Words will find me crying, 
when a drone hits the coral reef.

Between guilty and 
innocent, the sleep will 
level the night and 
let go the dreams in sea.

The school of fish dies 
in my story. The ship sails 
for a new port. I cleave 
a pattern of withdrawl.

Roses will come again, to 
sign a pact with the unshaven 
god, sitting on the pavement, 
waiting to be beheaded.


Satish Verma...

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Azure treasures,heavy laden
guarded by a sweet mermaiden
underneath a coral reef

come and sacrifice your grief

It is worth a gold doubloon
to give up mourning after noon
it feels so good to stoke the pain
embers there inside your brain

are you willing to deny it?
If you are the sea will buy it.
seal it in a Mason jar
now throw  it high
and just as far
as mortal man can fling his woes

to places only Neptune knows....

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Frames of time fabrics of the cosmos a severed hand binded 
A pleasure denied to the devil minded men
Amen a wise one said even as he said
His prayers inside a vipers nest 
And the horrors we have suffered here is alike to a ghost ship
Applying its trade inside a coral reef 
Bones of pirates belong where they lay 
Where they fell 
The king they conspired against
They threw everything beside the kitchen sink at me
And now we sing of death...

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How do you play patty cake with a seahorse this tall?
I had seen it before but could not explain the process at all.
Let’s hide behind this coral reef, and maybe it will happen I said.
The first few things that floated by were gross, sticky, and clearly dead.

Are you sure there is a seahorse here?
Yes, and a mermaid too, I saw them both quite clear.
We waited until our tanks were almost out of air.
Finally patty cake game happened between mermaid and sea mare....

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Thor caught  megatherium that was his blunder
                           Sold it to his wife Sif along with his thunder
                                  Thor's wife Sif was a political piff
                                 Lost the poll and sat on a coral reef
                             And brewed megatherium in a colander








  megatherium / Limerick/fun/humor/nonsense copyright  © Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty
                                         20 November  2014...

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Turtle cruises the reef,
turquoise warm in the sun;
tendrils of coral stretch to
sup filtered light.

Butterflyfish and Tang
intermingle amid coral polyps,
that are plentiful appetizers
for this party.

As sponges get their rays,
a seahorse uncoils and jettisons itself
just overhead of a yawning mussel.

I giggle to myself as an angelfish kisses
my goggles and swim beneath the belly of turtle;
awed at the Crayola chroma essence
that delights my spirit.
...

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I woke up inside a capsized boat.
What if I get cut on a coral reef?
What if I get stranded for four years like Tom Hanks?
What will I do for food, water, shelter, warmth?

Could I live without any company?
I stared at the moon.
At least I have her, I will name her Dolly.
We will have conversations.

I could write them down and become famous.
I hope I get stranded for at least two weeks I thought.
I could use the break from work.
“Ahoy!” someone called from a new boat. “Need help?”...

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