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
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CoatimundiI 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.
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Categories:
animal, hope, ocean, vacation,
Form: Limerick
Burial At Sea______________________________________________________________
There'd needn't be
no digs of earth
or clumps of clay
that weigh my girth,
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Categories:
ocean, baptism, bereavement, death, funeral,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
In GodspeedIn 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...
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Categories:
ocean, birth, butterfly, god, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Divine MagnetismI 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...
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Categories:
ocean, break up, conflict, crush,
Form: Sonnet
OceanLife is like ocean
Calm, still, rough or rigid
End, its beautiful....
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Categories:
analogy, emotions, life, ocean,
Form: Haiku
like chip and dales sixties cartoonsplayful 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...
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Categories:
ocean,
Form: Free verse
Homer TranslationsSurrender 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...
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Categories:
ocean, beauty, god, home, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Learning about waterLearning 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...
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Categories:
earth, ocean, people, planet,
Form: Free verse
Kite of Luminous Splendour
Categories:
beautiful, family, friendship, ocean,
Form: Shape
oceans Deep With LoveOceans 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...
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Categories:
ocean, beautiful, blue, color, cute
Form: Free verse
Charleston MermanWe 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...
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Categories:
ocean, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
By the sea I can seeThe 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...
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Categories:
nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Homer translationsHomer 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!...
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Categories:
ocean, death, father son, god,
Form: Free verse
sailor's warningsailor red sunrise
warm rays tame wild sea ripples ~
nautical warning...
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Categories:
ocean, storm, sun,
Form: Haiku
musical nature
clouds clap coastline cups
spring sings through flute flowers
drums of daylight dance
March 30th 2022
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Categories:
blue, color, flower, ocean,
Form: Haiku
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