Short Green Algae Poems

babbling brooks babble

green algae proliferate...

fry explore their world



05,22,2019
Writing Challenge 3, May 2019, Nature Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Dear Heart...

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An explosion under water
Colors bleeding through the walls
Green algae mixed with peach coral
Pearls floating on the ground
A personal space for a mermaid
Her divine heaven underwater

Russell Sivey...

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Fifty thousand cells? You’re wrong!
No. It’s true, their leader said.
We’re set in jelly, thick and long.
Flagella’s push us through water.

We’re fifty thousand strong.
You look like green algae and dead!
Volvox laughed in a happy song.
Amusing my wiser daughter....

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Im flachen Wasser
Ernährt die hungrigen Enten
Wallendes Algengrün

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In shallow water
Nourishing the hungry ducks 
Floating green algae


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En agua baja
Alimentando los patos hambrientes
Algas verdes flotando...

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'Yond the fields 
      of golden whey 
 A mountains- grown 
      in grayish clay 
Near it's 'neath 
      a river flows 
On bedded rocks 
      green algae grows
 Catfish' treats- 
      a tasty bite 
They eat, they jump 
      into the night 
When morning's sun 
      begins to rise 
They jump again
      to catch 'em flies...

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I am sorry. 
The blue and white teapot
that was stained with green algae
and had a broken spout
and was sitting on a terracotta tile
in our garden and had, for years,
gestated life in its plump belly
of brewed rainwater,
is now in pieces, smashed
by a clumsy blow
from my rake.

It has left a hole 
in the world 
that I have tried,
but cannot fill.

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they live now
in layers of motion and stillness

a fret sawing wind
a chaffing river
have shaped them

limbless bodies
turned upon
a lathe of time

glints of starlight are in them
eyes blinded by too much
of light
or dark

blue veins leach from granite pores
synapse
with bloods tingling clamor
with fingerprints

a molten world
drips green algae
upheavals whisper
from an unending past

a stone thrown back
finding a voice
in an uttering splash...

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I recalled your eyes clear and transparent
Somehow liked pool water surging in the sun
Dark green algae rising with the sunshine
Playing hide and seek with the little shrimps 

I saw your eyes again many years later
The years made them no longer transparent
Colorful lights broke their calm time to time
The illusionary images looked to be so unsure

I doubt this is the scenery people pursue?
Using dust of life to darken the transparency
And so-called knowledge to prevent sincere?...

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