Short Manatees Poems

Those Floridans, the manatees
Love playing in the surf … 

First cousins to the elephant – 
The only ones on Earth!...

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Manatees Are Born

In rainbow sparkles
Which twinkle beneath water.
Mirroring rivers.

©  Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
December 7, 2009...

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The annual migration to the beach
The manatees are basking in the sun
Be sure to pack large quantities of bleach
The eyes will need a rinse before you’re done...

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From the first sightings of manatees
grew the legends of mermaids? O, please!
Either eye tests are fails,
or the sailor’s from Wales,
and has spent too much time on the seas....

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Alone with fifty men six months at sea
torture, this womanless monotony
after lusty dreams
follow lurid schemes
curvaceous manatees look good to me


©8/1/2018

for –Sea Tales Limericks – Poetry Contest...

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DeSantis is losing the fight;
he’s firing the zookeep tonight.
It’s shifting to blue
at the genderqueer zoo...
The manatees ain’t acting right.

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Yeah, just google it - 'manatee dies from sex'...

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ghostly beluga whales
shy and discerning
hide out in coves

manatees giggle their secrets
their calves are frisky and open

dolphins swim toward the boats
making friends with everyone

sharks wait for lunch
hoping to catch a whiff of blood...

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We are going to Pepsi Cola Florida today
But why? Her amused relatives would ask.
Maybe to drink Pepsi? She said right away.
At five, so sad that she has to wear a mask.
Hope Florida weather will be mild all day 
So they can watch the manatees bask....

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Marine metropolis,
manatees moving methodically,
mackerel moseying,
maiden mermaid muses,
many much moxie magical mermen,
magnetic, masculine, mystical,
masters melodious mellow maritime music,
midsummer marvelous, merry,
myself-moonstruck mania minded,
my mission- meeting mesmerizing,
mysterious, mischievous,
magnificent merman!...

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Pothead
Stoned like a rock
Blazed like a fire
Baked like a cookie
Faded like a photo
Buzzed like a bee
Toasted like bread
Wasted like an alcoholic
Hammered like a nail
Oh I could go on
One of the saddest things in life
People throwing themselves Away
Just to get high like a private jet
Who knows
Maybe one day, smart people
Like me
Will be as rare as Manatees...

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Please don’t leave your litter here,
There’s a river running near,
It harms the birds,
It harms the bees, 
Before floating to the seas,
Where it harms the manatees,
Dolphins, whales, fish, and seals,
Swallow plastic with their meals,
They cannot clean up our pollution,
Please be part of the solution,
There’s a river running near,
Please don’t leave your litter here.
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Palm trees are being blown out to sea today
In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and far away
Hurricane Idalia is making sure she is having her way
When we think of Florida we all must pray

Alligators are in hiding, the manatees too
Housewives have stopped cooking their beef stew
People are all running toward Interstate ninety-five.
Trying to escape so they can stay alive....

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Can campy cavorting canines cajole curious cats?
Bickering birdbrains boast between bogeyman’s bats….
Honorably heavenly heifers heighten historical hats,
Manageable Mandarin manatees make moody Michigan maps.
Neutralizing Nebraskans needing normal noontime naps.
Flamboyantly flipping fleshy flannel flea-flipping flatfish flaps.
Can campy cavorting canines cajole curious cats?...

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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 and proof that’s fake....

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