The Oceans Majestic Creatures

Dolphins Orcas Whales Seals Otters Are cute mammals They rule the top of the water Sharks Tuna Stingrays Manta Rays Are beautiful fish of the middle surprising the creatures with their grace turtles Iguanas Sea snakes Are the tractors of the fish cast from the deep to live in the shallows, ever punished by the birds. Penguins Cranes Are proud birds of the shallows the sky and the depth caring messages to all kingdoms Birds Reptiles Fish Mammals Are ocean cool creatures of sky, shallows, top, deep. Continue reading The Oceans Majestic Creatures

Hi Really Big Fish

Hi, really big fish your scales are the lightest gray like the smoke from a chimney the tips to your fins They end like the tips to the sharpest knives they look like they could pierce through anything your teeth look somehow sharper than the sharpest knives and you have a lot of teeth just like a sha… wait maybe you are a… SHARK Oh no chomp Continue reading Hi Really Big Fish

Coral Reefs

A hiding place A safe place A home A hideaway A star beneath the blanket of blue A beautiful place A happy place A depressed place A coral reef under the sea Continue reading Coral Reefs

The Aquarium

Swishing calms the water, Darkness and light Fight, Shadows reflect Off of blending Colors, peaceful Travels across the water Fish, how do you feel To be locked up Is this like home? Dullness crawls across The water, peeking out at Different times, Sending a wave of sleep Across the ocean Calm. Calm. Calm. Continue reading The Aquarium

Quiet in a Tank Shark

You are calm inside there Like there is nothing to do Calm People with cameras pointing at you People staring at you How do you feel? Calm People staring at you with excitement Calm People come to aquariums because they love sharks And I think that too. Continue reading Quiet in a Tank Shark

Jellyfish

Ouch! What was that? Oh no, it was a poor stuck jellyfish trying to get out. Flop flop flop help me I`m stuck! I try to swim away but I keep getting stuck. The sand of the sea keeps scratching me! I try to turn around but I just can’t turn around. Flop flop swim swim. Oh thanks for the help you deserve some too. There, some seaweed, special medicine will help you get cured safely in the water. Thank you jellyfish but I can’t-WOOSH! Those waves are sure to be big like the sea, But I have to get … Continue reading Jellyfish

Clear

Sharks, how do you feel? Locked up yet calm. Lonely yet together. Sad yet happy. Wild yet tamed. The reflection. The swish of tails. Calm Calm Calm Continue reading Clear

Shark Room

The swishing of the water The crunching of the sand The gloomy depressing darkness Glowing Glowing Glowing Are you scared of the big shark? That is so much larger than you? Is this like home Small Small Small Awestruck, mesmerized, excited The click of the old cameras Do you wish that you were them? Chill Chill Chill Hard strong rough Many will not notice you Do you wish to move? Can you all communicate? Rough Rough rough Green soft fluffy Growing on the stones You are a home to many Soft Soft Soft Strong black misty Blinds out the light … Continue reading Shark Room

So Unique

Amazing schools of fish so mesmerizing in perfect harmony. Then a shark comes along and everyone scatters in fear but also somehow mesmerized by the beauty of the shark in the dark shadows so gloomy never going to the light like other fish like it is in its own little world. And mesmerized by how the fish can swish their fins so gracefully in the water. The shark hears humans saying something that he hopes is something good about him. How do you feel shark? But no one gives you a chance. How do you feel by getting taken away … Continue reading So Unique

The Aquarium

Different fish and sharks Seaweed growing on rocks Navy blue and indigo White and turquoise light Shark tails moving Shifting sands Are you okay? Are you scared? Exciting and mesmerizing Calm… Calm… Calm Continue reading The Aquarium

The Seahorse Kidnapper

All the seahorses live in fear Of the seahorse kidnapper somewhere near Could it be the doctor? The banker or the shop owner right here! No coral can hold him back! Oh no I think he’s near! My tiny body is covered in fear! Oh oh he’s right in here! Now I know who it is! IT’S THE. . . Today on fish news! The dreaded SEAHORSE KIDNAPPER STRIKES AGAIN!!!! Continue reading The Seahorse Kidnapper

Colors

Sand, like treasure gold Trees, like the greenest grass Coconuts, like the strongest brick Lobster, like a campfire burning red The ocean, sky blue yet deep black COLORS Continue reading Colors

Sharks

You swim gracefully You shimmer in the light As you circle the rocks in the reflection Of light above How do you feel Being trapped, surrounded, distanced You are encased In a large glass cage With wavy light You seem to follow The rhythm of The waves a shimmer Of the light You don’t just shimmer though You shine Continue reading Sharks

The King of The Sea

Your shiny teeth like the sharpest blade in the ocean, You can’t predict what they will do, swimming in their rocky water. Sounds of swishing back and forth. Their graceful tail, and the sparkles on their fins. How they swim in and out of the dark and light gradient. Goodbye beautiful creature ‘till we meet again. Continue reading The King of The Sea

Another World

Under water is a mirror of the world above An endless ecosystem of life. Under water is everyone working together, Knowing, or unknowing. Under water is beauty, Glowing like newly polished diamonds in the sun. Under water Is another Thriving world Of pure living. Continue reading Another World

Aquarium Pantoum

Fish as small as a billionth of a shark, Blacking out of darkness, Reflection like in a mirror, A shadowy shimmer, Blacking out of darkness, Echo of mixed murmurs, A shadowy shimmer, Crackle of water, Echo of mixed murmurs, Are you scared of the sharks? Crackle of water, Do you approve of captivity? Are you scared of the sharks? Longing to return, Do you approve of captivity? Exciting light fish, Longing to return, Chill as Diving off the Diving Board with that cool feeling you get, Exciting light fish, Glowing scary sharks Chill as Diving off the Diving Board with … Continue reading Aquarium Pantoum

Island

In an endless blanket of waves, a blink of green, a land for the saved A savior, a refuge, a wholesome place, full of everlasting grace See the palm branch thrash and sway, the waves roll in and crash in the bay A roar warns of a coming storm, shaking the huts on the shore Auks dive on the rocks, terns fly in graying flocks The bombardier plants open wide, awaiting the first drop out of the sky The agoutis huddle under a vine, near mango trees like twisting twine Palms lean into the murky stream, pitcher plants line the … Continue reading Island

Why Jellyfish Why?

Why do you look like a coke candy and not like the ocean blue Why are you always so graceful and formal why jellyfish why Why do your tentacles look like a bridal train, why jellyfish why Why are you so mesmerizing when you move like the waves on a sunny day, why jellyfish why Why do you sting when I get in the water, why jellyfish why How are you so pretty but so dangerous Continue reading Why Jellyfish Why?

The Jellyfish

Still water the Jellyfish floats by swish swish swish It pulses its transparent body moves gracefully through the water barely making A sound Mesmerized by its pale tentacles soothed swish swish swish… Continue reading The Jellyfish

Music

Pop, a pop of color streaks through the air then another. So many instruments, all different. At first I feel lost in this musical world but when the song begins to play that feeling drifts far far away. And I begin to feel excited, so many noises piano, keyboard electric guitar, tuba, so many. There is something about it that feels different. Different because I feel okay here like the music is running in my veins. But I have to leave this world all the happiness, joy, music, sounds, I slowly take off my headphones but I don’t worry because … Continue reading Music