Best Mermaid Poems

  As heartrose epitaphs
swathe earthly echoes
   with swelled up  w a v e s
  of spiritual sirens,
sea-fairies collide
  with honeysuckle footprints,
traced by mint-green manta rays
  along aquatic vessel of karma,
 pumping a nascent wilderness. 

In shawls of raven...

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I was submerged in 
an ocean 
          of rants,
hiding the sparkles 
of my  
poetic 
       planktons.
My meaningless 
phrases 
that meant 
everything,
but 
   nothing and anything
at the same...

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hidden below the echoing cold indigo sea
     a mermaid dwells . . . 
mystical as told in myths if you believe
          breathtakingly beautiful and sensual .  . .
in her cobalt blue...

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THE FISHERMAN AND THE MERMAID

A young fisherman berthed in Penzance
Went ashore one fine night to a dance
He woke up on his boat
With a mermaid afloat
The First prize in a card game of chance


So was spawned a cross genus romance 
Though the neighbors regarded askance
They got...

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creature take my love
let me sink into your depth
drown me in passion

© Harry J Horsman 2018...

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Sailors Rusty and Oz cruise back from the steely shores of the Bahamas, underway and navigating to Key West. Tired from the ship’s routine, duties, and three long months away.  There is a full moon, and the stars shine like diamonds in the black...

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In the deep silence of the night when perplexity 
Confuses the mind, I feel your power descend upon me,
Surrender becomes inevitable
As I become malleable under the hammer of love.
 
I view you, approach mid sea, alone, resplendent
In the pale rays of the dazzling moonlight,
As if...

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She climbed the liquid staircase
just to gaze at gleaming stars;
all she wanted was a wee one
to light up her fair boudoir.

A thousand times she spied them
flash across the midnight sky;
she strained so high to catch one,
but the mermaid could not fly.

Exhausted with hard striving,
she lay...

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The sea is aglow with her memories
Seaweed meadows of deep cave treasuries
Stories that summon the lost and curious
Legends embossed in silent reveries

She drifts the illumined waves of her home
Wide blue realms in which she may roam
Her spirit alive beyond undersea depths
In echoes of songs over...

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If I were a Mermaid

If I were a Mermaid my name would be Margo and I’d live in the deepest blue sea 
 I’d swim with the dolphins, make friends with the sharks and hope that they wouldn’t eat me

If I were a Mermaid my...

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Deep down below in the shadowy sea
a solitary mermaid hides herself from the human eye.
She spends her days swimming amongst the majestic whales,
and playing with the friendly dolphins.
Her world is nothing but bright coral reefs
immersed in blue-green aqua waters.

She floats above the white sand, ocean...

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Out on the ocean
A lonely fisherman cries
He's unable to find true love
No matter how hard he tries.

So many failures 
In his life there have been
To Neptune he's praying
''Please find me a queen''

Suddenly from the blue sea
A voice can be heard
''I'll find your true love''
If you...

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A mermaid who was German
Made out with her boyfriend Herman
When they got past kissing
She found something missing
No wonder : he was a merman...

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As I walked on a lonely beach,
     I thought I spied a Mermaid--
But no, it couldn't be, I thought. 
Yet, drawing near, I saw it was
    a Mermaid sunning on a rock.
   Her back, I saw,...

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under a  doting amber moon
beneath rolling crescent waves
the mermaid of his dreams
sways gracefully in rhythm
with his vacillating moods
capriciously oscillating
from depths to
crystal blue lagoons



AP: 2nd place 2022, Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on December 15, 2019 for contest STRAND SPECIAL 3, ANY FORM, ANY THEME sponsored by...

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