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Ocean Poems | Examples of Ocean Poetry

Ocean Poems - Examples of all types of ocean poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for ocean.
Premium Member Coatimundi
I once met a young coatimundi, Vacationing by the Bay of Fundy. In hopes of staying trim, He went for a brief swim, But sixty-foot tides swept him to Dundee. ...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, hope, ocean, vacation,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Burial At Sea
______________________________________________________________ There'd needn't be no digs of earth or clumps of clay that weigh my girth, ...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, baptism, bereavement, death, funeral,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
In Godspeed
In Godspeed A caterpillar will hibernate Then she flutters and learns her fate When she wakes up from her slumber. Miles away the waves see the shore To reach the sand, they want nothing more So your spirit can find some...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, birth, butterfly, god, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Divine Magnetism
I am holding your eyes, feeling your words, The waves gently overwhelm me, coaxing, Pulling me under and luring me in. Recede, leaving me freezing, shivering. I am holding your eyes. If you were wise, You would hold me. Feel...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, break up, conflict, crush,
Form: Sonnet
Ocean
Life is like ocean Calm, still, rough or rigid End, its beautiful....Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, emotions, life, ocean,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member like chip and dales sixties cartoons
playful dolphins popped out of lake frolicking like sixties Chip and Dale cartoons Bringing a smile to my face adding a new kind of joy to sundown at the ocean...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean,
Form: Free verse
Homer Translations
Surrender to sleep at last! What a misery, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michael R. Burch Passage home? Impossible! Surely...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, beauty, god, home, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Learning about water
Learning about water How did the water we always drink become drinkable! The water at the beginning of the world was not drinkable. The water on Mars and other planets is not drinkable. There were no clouds.. The spring waters...Read the rest...
Categories: earth, ocean, people, planet,
Form: Free verse
Kite of Luminous Splendour
Categories: beautiful, family, friendship, ocean,
Form: Shape
oceans Deep With Love
Oceans Deep With Love A sharks love poem, like a deep dive into the ocean, my love for you is like the ocean floor, it's dark and full of mysteries, but beware, just like the ocean...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, beautiful, blue, color, cute
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Charleston Merman
We were vacationing in the state of palm trees and seashore in September's mild loveliness. Me, a sexagenarian widow, hobbled by arthritis in my knees. As my family enjoyed the surf, I sat contented on a creaking wooden pier, taking in the...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member By the sea I can see
The beauty of nature one sand granule at a time being carried from one unknown place to another to be lost within the depths of the tides clinging to its home on the shores by...Read the rest...
Categories: nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Homer translations
Homer translations Surrender to sleep at last! What an ordeal, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michael R. Burch Passage home? Impossible!...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, death, father son, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member sailor's warning
sailor red sunrise warm rays tame wild sea ripples ~ nautical warning...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, storm, sun,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member musical nature
clouds clap coastline cups spring sings through flute flowers drums of daylight dance March 30th 2022 ...Read the rest...
Categories: blue, color, flower, ocean,
Form: Haiku

Specific Types of Ocean Poems

Definition | What is Ocean in Poetry?


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