Short Mermaids Poems

Short Mermaids Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Mermaids by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Mermaids by length and keyword.


Premium Member Rock Pools

Down by the rock pools
My hand gloved in your wrinkles
New discoveries
Starfish, crabs and mermaids purse,
Squirting sea anenomes.
Form: Tanka


Sea of Dreams

Hand painted fish
Swim near a reef
Of pastel pink
In a sea of crystal liquid
Where melancholy mermaids
Pine for mortal lovers..
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Is the Medium Ever the Message


      Monsters roam the deep
        making mermaids weep

      Mermen blend with coral
        the message drives the moral
Form: Couplet

Moon Flizzens Round Face

moon flizzens round face
                            sea mermaids are singing blues
                                    sprayed into the air
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Mermaid Playfriends

contagious joyful giggles
whimsical frivolity
frolicking in a fun
aquamarine playpark

mermaids in the
twilight of their youth



AP: 2nd place 2025


Premium Member Seashore Yearning

The sea enchants much as mermaids do.
Waves as far as I can see.
The cool salt air upon my lips.
Sweet sounds of freedom beckon.



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Premium Member No Man An Island, But His Girl

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.
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Mermaid Sand Castle

delicate mermaids sculpted from pebbled beach
work of art which will be gone in days
bringing the beauty of the sky into onlooker's eyes
mystical magic, shows artistry and skill

The Moonlit Pond

Smiling mermaids bathe
As love struck nymphs and fairies 
On the backs of fish
Course around the moonlit pond 
Watched by crooning frogs and toads

For Rick’s Tanka Love Note contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member The Blue Ocean

Written: August 25, 2026 for Week's Poetry Challenge: The Color Blue ********* the azure ocean sparkling in aquamarine a mermaids playground
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Do People Still get Born with Tonsils

Do people still get born with tonsils
Or have we evolved past that stage?
Why were they there anyway?
Maybe for when we were mere-creatures
Mermaids and mermen
Swimming in Atlantis

Eroding Oceans

thinking of gorgeous mermaids
are you the mother of pearls
what shall float your selfish boat
from sea to shore to sky high
erode me like grains of sand
you make oceans froth and boil
© Ak Adam  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

The Mermaids Ball .

The  mermaids  ball  music  still  lingers .

Swordfish  Fred  and his shoal  of  sweet singers

Had  a  whale  of  a  time

On  the octopus  slime

Caressed  by  their  salty  fish-fingers .
© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Drowning In Her Tears

(From a Mermaids lament saga)

Oh lady of the deep doth cry
floats in tears of her love
for him;
for her true love just drifts on by
needs the air from above
can’t swim.

© Harry J Horsman 2015
Form: Rhyme

Island Hopping

Let me know
when you are leaving
for a day away
in Eleuthra
The Exuma Cays
Long Island
or The Berry Islands
so we can bask away
in some fun in the sun and sea
like pirates, mermaids and sailors
© Mia Pratt  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Mermaids Fancy

dreams mermaids stirring to life in every man's imagination churning spurring raw whimsy gleam and charms 'neath wanton magic of blue moon
AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Blue Is the Ocean and So Is Me

I cursed the mellowness in me
To be louder than the sea
Flowing until the waves are rough
Limp-legged are the mermaids love
I filter quietness in trade for rebellion in me
Living life outloud caught in the deep
Form: Rhyme

Sleepy Summer

Sleepy summer
                                           Naked girls sleeping
                                                 Mermaids in waiting 













© RAJAT KANTI CHAKRABARTY
17th October, 2014
Form: Haiku

With Pastels In Hand

With pastels in hand,
I paint the life of the sea...
in sunny Capri.


Giant Cyclops settled here,
and fishermen still fear them...
legends become real.


Mermaids sing with lyre,
luring them in your cold deep...
as images appear.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Turquoise

the magical hue that spawns mermaids somewhere betwixt sea and sky



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~SUNLIT RIPPLES~ 2019

AP: 3rd place 2020

Submitted on January 1, 2018 for contest MONOKU 4: COLOURS sponsored by SILENT ONE  -  RANKED 2ND
Form: Monoku

Ribcage Like a Conch Shell

My ribcage is like a conch shell
where you can press your ear
against my narrow chest 
where the music of the ocean tides
meet the songs of the mermaids
flowing and circulating
through my heart made of ocean water
and my breastplate made of coral reefs
© Mia Pratt  Create an image from this poem.

Lotus

Lovely lotus
Covering the pond
Like China ladies
Clothe in fine
Pink linen.

At night, lotus
Shimmering glows
In the moonlight
Heralding great
Nymph serenading.

Cool day, lotus
Captivating beauty
Like mermaids
Capturing a man's
Soul to glory.

Premium Member The mermaids of J Alfred Prufrock

The other day, when I was walking by the sun-splashed sea, 
I was overcome by a fiery joy and a titillating glee,
as, on silvery, green rocks not far from the yellow beach,
I heard mermaids singing, each to each.
And then they turned ~ and they sang to me!
© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.

Mermaids

Mermaids
The other mermaid?
Don´t you ask me about her, 
she wore a tight dress and
was in love with a rich man
who had a big swimming pool. 
 Sourly her glossy lips 
Open disdain 
of my shower unit   
 But my rubber duck she cheekily 
demanded 
I kept in my water bed.

Premium Member Mermaid Gal Named Lee

Such a round cute torso fin on curly haired mermaid gal named Lee
The other mermaids said wow! I wish I was Rubenesque like she
Lee can swish her tail and stir up bubbles from the bottom of the sea.
She heard them and giggled with happiness, feeling loved and free.
Form: Monorhyme

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