Best Abalone Poems

Abalone Song

The ocean tossed an empty shell,
A swirled coil of pearly emptiness
glowing softly on the shifting sand.
What creatures lived and loved--secured deep
inside the silky walls of abalone?
What torrent tore the creature's heart
and ripped it from its shell to die
alone?
Or did it simply crawl away
Unseen, abandoned....

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The channel islands off the coast
of California were my home
on weekends sailing with my dad
on glassy seas, on froth and foam.

On Fridays after work he’d head
to Catalina on the wind.
Sometimes, the trips were fast and rough;
sometimes, you thought they’d never end.

I’d go below when it...

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Aambergris
 is what it was 
that washed up on the dunes ,
Aabalone
 in the hands of children 
'neath the moon.
Sstarfish 
fallen from the sky ,
and Sseaweed for our heads
we fell asleep along the reef 
upon our sandy Bbeds .

the Ddreams 
that came 
were Neptunes' own,
He...

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rainbow abalone
shell upon the sand
starfish

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