Octopi Poems - Poems about Octopi

...Octopuses have a REM-like sleep. Just like you and I, and dogs! Their eyes gyrate wildly from side to side. They twitch and intertwine their eight long legs. Their suckers glitch the grip. The c......Read the rest...

...Yesterday I found a worm in my apple. Well, half a worm. C’mon life, take the gloves off. You’re better than that. I like to think we’re still friends, though. Well, at least there are no hard f......Read the rest...

...Over pelagic reefs, oscillating waters obfuscate sunken fetes. Octopi tango while oarfish flash titian fins. Opulent paradise: oblivious to us. 4/5/21 - written for Kim Merryman's "Pleiad......Read the rest...

...Skinned shins on tree skins, Space-viewed landscapes of rust and paint Showing mirrored continents imagined; Worlds within worlds at every turn, Outlines of Octopi on Oil slicked streets; Eve......Read the rest...

...Nucleotidings by Michael R. Burch “We will walk taller!” said Gupta, sorta abrupta, hand-in-hand with his mom, eyeing the A-bomb. “Who needs a mahatma in the aftermath of NAFTA? Now, that......Read the rest...

...The Octopi Jars by Michael R. Burch Long-vacant eyes now lodged in clear glass, a-swim with pale arms as delicate as angels'... you are beyond all hope of salvage now... and yet I would p......Read the rest...

...Currents by Michael R. Burch How can I write and not be true to the rhythm that wells within? How can the ocean not be blue, not buck with the clapboard slap of tide, the clockwork shock of w......Read the rest...

...sea life havens red grouper swim octopi hide …coral playgrounds Mariana world’s deepest trench first sightings made …unknown species * The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is located......Read the rest...

...Miniature Bats with big blinky eyes batting butterscotch kisses Baby belly flop Frogs that happily hop and squiggling Lilliputian Octopi Tiny hats on Teensy Teddy Bears casting star bright wishes ......Read the rest...

...Silence settles to sleep. It carries me on wings of dream- to fall to mystic seas, where gallant cry from ocean guid......Read the rest...

...A very quick quack The purpose of a porpoise is to whirl backwards in a spotty boat but the purpose of a penguin is to glide on a jet ski. Informational weather beam probes probability but a pin in ......Read the rest...

...Night of the full moon Whale fish are most adept at swimming around in a shot glass but glass goblets are preferred by dolphins whose long dorsal fin opts for wide open rimmed spaces. Stingrays de......Read the rest...

...A fine dining experience is simply NOT living within means. How rather tragic then said sparrow. Catacombs in an x shape are often x rated chambers filled with sleeping custard coloured vermin who......Read the rest...

...A baby gorilla's bedtime is a harmonic period when the bananas line up with little leaf rattles to softly croon to slumber the furry ball. Priceless is the process of pacification and pacifications a......Read the rest...

...Using a bucket and spade as a pillow can be as symbolic as cuddling a goose. But wrestling with a carpet cleaner can often be quite a hazardous act filled with semi reluctant fumes. And fumes are nei......Read the rest...