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Sea Poems | Examples of Sea Poetry

Oh, How I Love the Sea
When I was a kid, I only knew the sea from a distance— from the deck of a ship, sailing from Manila to Bacolod. I’d lean against the railings, watching the water stretch limitless, wondering what it felt like to touch. It wasn’t until high school that I finally stepped into it. Waves around my legs, sand between my toes. And just like that, I fell in...

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Categories: sea, memory, nature, nostalgia, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dancing in the Sunshine
Checked by www.howmanysyllables.com>syllable_counter ************************************************************** Dancing in the Sunshine Ooo ooo, awh, ooo, ooo, awh I wish to dance in the sunshine, Come and dance with me in the shine, Let us dance while the sky is bright, Come close to...

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Categories: sea, dance, destiny, moon, star,
Form: Lyric



Get Thee Behind Me
Speak of the devil incarnate to give the devil his due not to play devil's advocate tho' devil-may-care the devil is in the details and while we're there to state so now would be opportune he who sups devil's food cake or devilled eggs with the devil should have a very long spoon but if we don't the devil you say better the silver-tongued devil you...

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Categories: sea, character, fun, humor, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Summer Bliss Hiku 40
Summer Bliss Hiku 40 ...

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Categories: appreciation, earth, sea, summer,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Corn Pop
Feeling corny By the sea Stretched out baby Please look at me I got on my shades Do you think I’m hot This yellow tan baby It ain’t store bought Rub in that butter Slather me up If you rub deeply I’m bound to pop Sun kissed towels Baby you and me Both feeling corny down by the sea. Mystic Rose’s Choose one image poetry prompt contest. Image number one. ...

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Categories: sea, beach, character, cute love,
Form: Quatrain



If My Ancestor Boarded The Titanic
If he had boarded the frail proud lady, My ancestor would have been a hysteric. It would have been nothing new to him, though — Boarding such a mighty vessel With an unsinkable testimonial. He had been on board Noah’s ark For more than 40 days and 40 nights — The first-ever lockdown in the first-ever Flood pandemic. He would have consulted an oracle...

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Categories: sea, travel,
Form: Free verse
The Cartographer and the Sea
He drew maps for a living. Not of roads, but of promises— soft lines where her laughter once lived, tiny arrows where her eyes used to point when she couldn’t say stay. She was the sea— ever folding into herself, a hymn of salt and leaving. No harbor could hold her, no anchor dared ask. He traced her tides in silence, built cartographies of could-have-beens, and marked in...

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Categories: sea, break up, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Gone Fishing
life rises and falls like undulating waves ~ make time for calm waters ...

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Categories: sea, time,
Form: Monoku
sound of the tide hiku
For Sir Brian Strand's 1396 Poetry Contest 15 July 2025 s c y ...

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Categories: nature, ocean, sea, sound,
Form: Haiku
From Sea To Sky
When you don't see love, Just go to the sea. Make the sea breeze As your love letter, To send your love for free. The sea is vast as ocean So as love is simple, Yet so unfathomable. The heart is one foot In between your head, Yet so far at a distance, So deeply felt unrestrained. The mind is green when tame While heart is red in...

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Categories: sea, adventure, character, life, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member summer waves
* summer waves g l i t t...

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Categories: sea, summer,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Seesaw Sashays on Summer Shore
I walk along the shore, bare feet in sand. The seabirds wheel and cry above the sea. The wind hums secrets shaped by ocean’s hand, ...

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Categories: sea, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In a sea of time, my soul drifts like a leaf in the wind
In a sea of time, my soul drifts like a leaf in the wind, Memories are ice sculptures melting under the rays of forgetfulness, Silent betrayals are strips of silk that cloak my heart, Days begin like sweet dreams and fade like candles in the night, I watch the years flow like rivers that can't find their course. I carry...

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Categories: sea, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Friend Is the Ocean
My friend is the ocean, waters that glide, Rustling my footsteps and tousling my hair; Many the times that we walked side by side, A spark and forever, joined as a pair. Always a cloud there lay over its play, Dappled the sunlight that fell on my face; Heaving, its waters had something to say; Twilight with meteors it took for the...

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Categories: sea, abuse, allegory, friendship, innocence,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Whispers from the depths embrace my soul like a sea retreating in secrecy
Whispers from the depths embrace my soul like a sea retreating in secrecy, I feel that the end is just a threshold to other worlds where dreams unravel, My world shatters into shards of stars, into the dust of time that floats gently, But an inner voice sings to me that I am sculpted from the stone of...

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Categories: sea, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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