Square Poems 23: Dolphin Acrostic Poem by Kim Barney

Kim Barney

Kim Barney

I was born in a bank - - my mother went there and made a deposit
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Square Poems 23: Dolphin Acrostic

Rating: 5.0

Dolphins are extremely smooth.
Orca is the biggest one.
Listening to them can soothe.
Playful, they like to have fun.
Huge pods are extremely rare:
It's too much for them to bear.
Now your education's done.

Square Poems 23: Dolphin Acrostic
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: animals,nature,ocean,wildlife
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
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I didn't know, before I started writing this poem, that the Orca, or so called "Killer Whale" is actually a species of dolphin. Education is a wonderful thing. Even at my age, I can still learn something!

Dolphins, by the way, are not fish. They are mammals.

Bottle-nose dolphins can swim up to 260 meters below the surface of the ocean.

The smallest dolphin is Maui's Dolphin, which is only about four feet (1.2 meters) long and weighs about 90 pounds (40 kg.) .

When dolphins are free in the oceans, they swim 40 to 100 miles every day.

A dolphin in captivity usually lives only about 5 years, as compared to over 25 years in the wild.

In Laguna, Brazil, dolphins herd fish toward local fishermen and then signal the fishermen to drop their nets. The dolphins then feed on the escaping fish. The dolphins were not trained for this behavior. This cooperation has been going on since at least 1847.

There are over 30 species of dolphins. One of the rarest is the pink dolphin, which lives in the Amazon river and Orinoco river in South America.

I call these square poems because they have the same number of syllables per line as there are lines in the poem. For example, a four-line poem would have four syllables per line, and a six-line poem would have six syllables per line.

This poem has seven lines, so it has seven syllables per line.

Square poems do not have to rhyme, and they do not have to be acrostics.

To see my other square poems with lower numbers from here, just keep clicking on the "previous poem" button.

To see square poems with higher numbers, just keep clicking on the "next poem" button.

Written 07 December 2016
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
wes vogler 15 November 2018

I think you are setting a fresh, interesting approach .. a spoonful of sugar keep er going

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Bernard F. Asuncion 15 November 2018

Kim, such a pretty acrostic poem...............10+++++++++++++

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Kim Barney 16 November 2018

I'm sure you meant WITTY instead of PRETTY, but thanks anyway.

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