Where sunlit waters yield to deep, abyssal cold
Giant Manta Ray wanders through blue and gold
The pelagic expanses to the dynamic coastal reef
Are their beat in ocean, beyond our world’s belief.
A frame of cartilage gives flexibility to their grace
Pectoral wings can reach seven meters in the space
No stinging barb upon the tail, no armour for a fight
Just camouflage cloaks of charcoal and of white.
To run its sweeping frame, a clever mind commands
A brain out-smarting all that swim across the sands
A specialized physiology keeps warm their inner core
As the forward motion ides them far from any shore.
Horn-like fins upon its head guide its ocean’s tide
Unfurling wide cephalic scoops to draw currents wide
Along plates of intricate gill rakers, water passes free
To trap the tiny krill and plankton drifting in the sea.
In deeper tides, a quiet dance of courtship will begin
A train of suitors following the female fin-to-fin
Twelve months a single pup will grow in hidden grace
To glide alive in silent deeps, and claim its ocean space.
On their pale, mosaic bellies, a secret mark is signed
A fingerprint of spots and stars, uniquely countersigned
A true gentle giant of the deep, a wonder of the ocean
The great Manta species glides along in silent echelon.
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