In honor of the upcoming National Haiku Poetry Day, I asked some of my most creative colleagues here at Ocean Conservancy to prepare a haiku poem inspired by our daily work to help protect our ocean from its greatest challenges. Which one is your favorite? Share with us your own special haiku for our ocean on Twitter!

moonlit migration

giants swimming to shelter

warmer waters soon

–Emily Brauner

Spring ice, fish, bear, bird

The circuit of Arctic life

Energy transformed

–Patricia Chambers

Oil slicked the waters

Nine years ago in the Gulf

Today, we restore.

-Trishna Gurung

 Alaska tide pool

Cold water spills over boot

A footstep too deep

–Andrew Hartsig

Iceberg drips in sun

Seal den blue beneath the snow

Changing Arctic spring

–Henry Huntington

Busy crowded coast

Boats and windfarms aplenty

Needs ocean planning

–Rafeed Hussain

Amid bubble streams

Yellow-striped fish float gently,

Aloof, then swim off

–Jordana Merran

Sunny vacation

yet another plastic straw

better choices now

–Megan Montemurno

your smile was pure, wide

as ocean, salt from our eyes

return to the sea 

–Ki’Amber Thompson

Rising seas encroach

Ocean warming threatens fish

Cut emissions now

–Anna Zivian