Posaidon's SurfboardUpon the waves where the wild winds sing,
A tale unfolds of a vessel and its wing;
Through the tide, it dances, graceful and free,
Harnessing the ocean's heart, a sight to see.
With cargo holds filled, treasures abound,
From the Pacfic to the Atlantic, dreams resound.
A bill...
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Categories:
culture, ocean, sea, storm,
Form: Ode
Categories:
ocean, extended metaphor, passion, sensual,
Form: Epigram
What the Lost Sea Turtle Asked
where is the moon that
used to guide me home to breed -
gulls had no reply
they too can't see sky above ~
smudged by human stamps of smog...
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Categories:
environment, ocean, sky,
Form: Ekphrasis
I understood you in your silence, an ocean of ice under mute starsI understood you in your silence, an ocean of ice under mute stars,
where the shadows of time weigh heavily, a mountain of unspoken ash,
your struggles, heavy curtains, hide cries of a shattered heart,
shards of fallen stars, scattered on fields forgotten by the wind.
Your nights, sleepless, just broken mirrors in which you get lost,
you see yourself...
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Categories:
ocean, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Depth and Breadth of Quiet
I told no one I'd seen the night—
how tension breached a sunset start,
how sea had swallowed all the light.
I told no one
the world is glass—a whale is art,
this frame of sky its ancient right,
it plays each game the same—by heart.
Still moment's pulse too wide to try
resuscitation, CPR—
now all that's left to gain, insight
I told...
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Categories:
analogy, environment, ocean,
Form: Roundel
UNDER OCEAN
Under Ocean swimming creatures !
Running on clash and collision
between all preys and predators
Under Ocean.
Wonder ! Beyond human vision :
Ocean shows fantastic features.
Real : No fantasy - fiction...
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Categories:
ocean,
Form: Roundel
Sailboat
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Sailboat
Under
the white seagulls,
yacht's passing wing
off the sky, off deep end —
sea moves me lagging these feet
in water...
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Categories:
ocean, angst, boat, deep, introspection,
Form: Verse
Sailboatsailboat,
dear conveyance
of my dimmed dreams,
glide freely 'neith the sun
I'll watch as you sail away
with my heart...
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Categories:
dream, freedom, ocean,
Form: Verse
House by the SeaThey hang like a beaded curtain
in a fortune teller’s parlor,
each buoy a bauble
from the sea’s own trove—
sun-faded,
barnacle-bitten,
unstrung from nets
that once strained tides for omens.
Now they sway in the wind,
rattling secrets and guarding
the doorway to elsewhere.
Who dwells behind the curtain—
a castaway witch, perhaps,
who brews fog in mason jars
and weaves seaweed into...
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Categories:
house, imagery, mystery, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Painting As Camera
The canvas is so much like a seashore
Where hands comb for a body to the storm
Sometimes a continental piece will shift
These wounds under the palette —
Give her light while looking through the bars
From some more than thousand marks
The brush of close kissing hair by
The stroke of your blue in brown eyes
Stay familiar...
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Categories:
ocean, absence, introspection, love, missing,
Form: Couplet
Turtle beachThe Ballad of the Endless Shell
An Epic Poem of Turtles
In the age when the world was newborn and bright,
Before sword or sorrow or firelight,
The Earth did stir with a breath so wide,
And turtles rose from the ocean's tide.
Old as mountains, calm as stone,
They bore the sky on backs alone.
With shells like shields from time and...
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Categories:
ocean, animal, beauty, care, cute,
Form: Epic
Earthquakeearthquake shakes the ground
the ocean boils and hisses
tsunami threatens
...
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Categories:
ocean, natural disasters,
Form: Haiku
Sea Trash Begone
Categories:
ocean, pollution,
Form: Roundel
Toccata and Fugue in D MinorIt begins with a sky-split cry—
a blade of wind slicing the stillness,
gulls scattering like torn pages
as the sea holds its breath.
Then comes the first thunderstroke,
not from clouds, but from below—
the ocean remembering its anger.
The sea begins to speak in tongues—
lightning dances across the waves.
The ocean surges, climbs the wind,
rising in spiraled towers of spray—
a mind...
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Categories:
music, nature, ocean, storm,
Form: Free verse
We sit a few inches apart, with bright screens separating us through an invisible oceanWe sit a few inches apart, with bright screens separating us through an invisible ocean,
We speak in pre-packaged echoes, algorithms feeding us thoughts that are not ours at all,
I send you a message, and you respond with a reaction, a digital finger, a drawn heart that disappears,
We gather in crowded rooms, silent, bowing our heads...
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Categories:
ocean, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Ocean Poems
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