Short Mermaids Poems

mermaids secret stash
her iridescent buttons
mother of pearl...

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Floating on mermaids
luxe tide pool intoxicants---
secret lagoon love...

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manatee herd 
sailors charmed by their whistling
myth of mermaids

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Listen to poem:

first little mermaid
wants the second one killed off
mermaids not common...

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Martians in the skies
and mermaids in the oceans
skies and seas are full...

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The tall ship sailed south;
leaping dolphins greeted them
and mermaids beckoned...

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Mermaids on beach sand
      enchanted I feel breathless
       sigh, almost panting...

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Mermaids swim between
     Ladders of twisted seaweed
          Beneath the blue sea....

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Mermaids
Sea wonderers
Revealing their desire
Drifting my mind in a sure-fire
Legend...

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Those Floridans, the manatees
Love playing in the surf … 

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

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from the depths
beneath rolling waves
lonely mermaids chant



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on April 19, 2019...

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

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

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ravishing mermaids
luring mates to cryptic depths
~ hypnotic death trap



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on August 17, 2018...

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moon flizzens round face
                            sea mermaids are singing blues
                                    sprayed into the air...

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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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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...

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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...

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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 ....

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(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...

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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...

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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...

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Sleepy summer
                                           Naked girls sleeping
                                                 Mermaids in waiting 













© RAJAT KANTI CHAKRABARTY
17th October, 2014...

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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....

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Contagious joyful giggles
Whimsical frivolity
Frolicking in a fun
Aquamarine playpark
Mermaids in the
Twilight of their youth



Submitted on September 28, 2019 for contest ANY POEM YOU WANT TO WRITE 50 WORDS OR LESS sponsored by CAREN KRUTSINGER...

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