Tom Rutherford Poet Free verse

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This poem is about the connection and life dance that I have had with the ocean since birth. I was born next to the ocean and it imprinted itself on me... I am drawn to it like moth to flame.

Ocean Mystery

Azure skies
Alabaster sands
Emerald seas
Scent of comfort
From my earliest days

Surf sounds
To ease worldly pains
Ocean fragrance
Soothes and calms
Beach therapy for the soul

The sea
And my soul 
Intertwined from birth
Drawn to shores
Like moth to flame

Rhythmic waves
On sandy edge
Like the heartbeat 
Of a mother
Calms a child  


TLR 8-6-17

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Darlene De Beaulieu May 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM Hello Tom, Back again to tell you, this poem will be my fav. Enjoy your day my friend. /Darlene/

Anna Hopper August 28, 2019 at 10:39 AM I love this! I, too, have a special connection with the coast. Everything about it! Beautiful description! Tom Rutherford December 20, 2019 at 5:47 AM Thanks Anna! I’m glad you enjoyed it. I was visiting my daughter and Granddaughter in the panhandle of Florida and I was again moved by the ocean’s seduction, it’s grandeur. It was an easy write when so inspired

Darlene De Beaulieu April 1, 2018 at 12:19 PM Hello Tom, your Ocean Mystery poem is beautiful. I like the whole poem, certain verses speak to me. The second, third, and fourth are the verses that speaks to me. I like the water I like the sound of the waves it is a soothing sound for the soul. I miss the water, I can stare at it for hours. Have a nice day my friend.

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart October 20, 2017 at 5:22 PM Wonderful love poem Tom, you are a lucky man. Inlanders play the sounds of the ocean caressing the shore to loll themselves to sleep and dream of her. Tom Rutherford October 20, 2017 at 5:42 PM Thanks Maureen... I hadn't thought of it as a love poem originally but you are absolutely correct, it has been an ongoing romance all of my life. While I don't live on the water I have always been within an hour's drive to get an occasional ocean fix.