Sailing on currents,
the manta's ballet echoes
the chant of abyss.
I'm down to the final two days in my month of Haiku so I decided to move away from following a theme. For these final poems I'll simply be choosing a picture I like, and seeing where the inspiration takes me.
This image by nanoom from Pixabay captured my eye completely and submerged me into the mystical undersea world I've written about many times on steem in my scuba scribe travel blogs. I have been lucky enough to see a few large eagle rays, but yet to see the illusive manta ray.
I have seen many scuba diving videos of them turning circles over divers in famous dive destinations like the Maldive islands. When you see these majestic ocean giants at play like this it really does look like a dance. These thoughts and memories are what inspired the theme of the Haiku. There are a million sounds popping and crackling when you dive on a reef, and those are just what can be heard in the human range of frequencies. In this poem I tried to imagine what the Manta might hear to inspire its dance.
This is day thirty of my month long challenge - from the 06th of August until the 06th of September - to post a daily Haiku on steem. HF21/22 scuppered my plans for daily Haiku, so I'm a day behind and will put the final poem out on the 7th of September.
I have created a new tag #monthofhaiku. If anyone wants to replicate the challenge please feel free, I will check the tag occasionally and try to curate the better Haiku. However, this is not meant to be a challenge to the writers' community. I am away in Yorkshire at the moment with no access to a computer and limited internet. Please, forgive me if I'm slow to respond to comments, as I will only be checking my phone (and partiko) occasionally while away. This weeks Haiku are being published via 
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