A giant shadow moves through rocky dens
Deep in the dark and chilly northern tides
From the Alaskan abysses to distant Japan
Extending to the southern tides of Mexico’s span
Eight smart arms that reach and slide
Wild and free, aa a dark secret of the ocean tide
Capable of changing their colour, shape, and hue
To hide and prosper in rocks and waters blue.
It lives like master of the deep unknown
Enteroctopus rules the lonely depths alone
Average hundred-ten pounds of a might
And shifting colours during the night
Known for a copper blood cyan-blue
With three strong hearts to pump it through
They have a sharp and often hidden beak
Hunt for the favourite crabs, food they seek
Then nine smart brains to guide their way
It truly make them master of deep grey bay.
What a boneless mountain, fluid grace
A sack-like huge mantle takes its place
With a thirty-foot colossal span
The giant can reach upto six hundred pound
With as many as two thousand suckers aligned
To taste and feel what they can find around
Then a large size creature may squeeze
Through the hole of a lemon size.
Male transfers sperm using a special arm
Then dies soon by a programmed mechanism
Female weaves thousands of eggs in quiet domain
Defending them through the sun and rain
She starves yet never leaves her post
Until miniature lives leave the desolate coast
She slips into final sleep as hatchlings take flight
To commence new journey through ocean’s might.
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