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::seahorse::5:7:5::
by Bethany Lee
Please be my seahorse,
so i may free-ride the waves.
yet, i am content.
02/20/2004 Author's Note: seahorse, small, bony-plated FISH of the family Syngnathidae, usually found in warm waters. Its elongated head and snout, flexed at right angles to its body, suggest those of a horse. Members of different species range from 2 to 8 in. (5 to 20 cm). Weak swimmers, they anchor themselves by curling their thin, prehensile tails around seaweed. While mating, the female seahorse injects eggs into a pouch on the underside of the male, where they are fertilized and then develop until the young are expelled. The related pipefish look more fishlike.
Posted on 02/21/2004
Copyright © 2025 Bethany Lee
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Agnes Eva on 02/22/04 at 07:47 PM while this is an interesting poem, it isn't haiku at all. You'd need to describe some juxtaposition of the seahorse in its environment... but anyway, as a poem it's cute and metaphorically amusing to yearn for reproduction the seahorse way, heheh, like saying to the man: YOU carry the babies, see how YOU feel. I like that aspect of it. |
| Posted by Meghan Helmich on 12/04/08 at 06:21 PM bethany, i think this is very clever. and i would wholly disagree with agnes. this is definitely a haiku. in fact, per our own wonderful Pathetic poetry center, a haiku is defined as: "...very brief descriptions of nature that convey some implicit insight or essence of a moment." |
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