Best Coastal Poems

coastal sunset -
dropping into the sea also
the juggler's ball



Written February 23rd, 2016
For the What Goes Up, Must Come Down Contest hosted by Catie Lindsey...

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Sun
Peering
O’er the sea.
Prismatic waves
Reflect painted sky.
Colorful ripples dance,
Pelican silhouettes glow
With halos of pink, orange, gold.
As the orb climbs higher in the sky,
Bright light casts its gleam as stars and moon fade...

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From the east, a breeze
Sent from lands across the seas
Dancing with the trees...

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World shifts, the air thins
In a coastal town... 
slatted blinds, every hue from
Warm reds to harsher blues
Hardwired to heaven
Homing instinct with
Different wavelengths
Sunlight scatters

They're more elusive
Ubiquitous in nature
Occasionally frightening
Peaceful yet troubled
Superficial beauty
Bewildering imperfections 
Sunlight fades to darkness
What mischief, what gentle
Assistance they can give
In legend, lore


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ship rotting near shore
prismatic colors dancing...
     ocean’s reflections

nature kisses sea
multi-hues will fade at dusk...
     another dawn waits



*Based on the photo of the ship in the sea at sunset.
Written by November 5, 2011 for PD’s Sunset contest...

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smoldering cattails
mosquito swarms kept at bay
gathering mussels...

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At lowest tide, you shimmer at my feet,
fluid glass thinly glazes my squirming toes
Pacific respite from today’s prevailing heat
The cycle of waves, on and on it goes,
a watered source of lifeforms grand and small
Your mollusk, Pisces, star, survive and thrive,
‘neath waters dark and deep with...

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The sky is gray, as far as the eye can see.
At midday, no light filters through.
The drab color, reflects upon the sea.
An enveloping cloud of filmy gray hue.

A winter storm was coming this way,
but a nor'Easter came instead.
Whiteout conditions, to display.
On this island, a feeling...

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We parked on an old quay
Amidst a quaint coastal setting
Surrounded by platinum clouds
Minds soon interpreting 

In poise our thoughts now action
Thralled by the essence of her perfume 
No longer are we in said quandary
Now down to our birth costumes

Torso's dance in front seat tangle
Steamy windows...

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Choppy sea below the cliff,
Obdurate ground beneath my feet.
Admiring the landscape,
Stimulating to my senses,
Therapy from nature.
Azure sea that meets the sky,
Lavishly growing heather and gorse
Punctuated between the ferns,
Absolutely beautiful,
Tempting me further along the path,
How I love my walk.

6th September 2019...

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The clarinet waves touched the moon.  

He walked like a rooster in the moonlight, 

bewitched by the music and the light. The 

caparisoned elephants swayed their heads 

to the drumbeats. A dozen half-naked virgins

danced around a bronze devil. “Human smell!” 

Everything vanished in the...

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Tan skin and smile lines.
Breakfast diners and strong coffee.
Soft breeze and salt-encrusted waves.
Lowered windows and strange songs.
Dripping ice cream and picnic tables.
Inside jokes and evening storms.
Good books and toes in sand.
All these things go hand in hand....

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Green turtles are listed as, endangered
and are mainly found, in tropical and sub-tropical sea oceans
they are one of the largest sea turtles, to have ever embraced our oceans
 and are the only Sea Turtle herbivore, and a great sea ocean mentor

Green turtles graze on seagrasses,...

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Black Rhinos are listed as, critically endangered
They are found in deserts and grasslands, of Coastal East Africa
and are the smallest African Rhino, with two horns that are ravaged
and they are browsers rather than grazers, eating on leaves and trees 

Humans encroach on their land, which...

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As centuries pass
The seas advance 
To take away the land. 
Lost to the waves
The ancient graves 
Reside below the sand. 

Cliffs that crumble
Remains lay humble
Eroded by the brine. 
The final tomb
To meet the spume
Clings to the shoreline....

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