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Best Coastline Poems

Below are the all-time best Coastline poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of coastline poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Glory of the Eastern Edge
In moments of twilight civility
an exchange of gifts - 
darkness for light..

RISING

from beyond the softening silhouette edge
you brighten like a blushing damsel
hazy haloed
unabashed in the...

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Categories: coastline, appreciation, beauty, imagery, morning,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member On the Crest of a Wave
Navigating vast oceans of life, negotiating its lows and highs,
Some blissful of pure joy, some burdened in griefs and sighs,
Riding aspirations eternal, rowing vigor of...

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Categories: coastline, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lake's Music
To find solace from misty tides that curve,
In low beats gently weaving their way
Along the coastline where our town rests:
This aging lake I knew as...

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Categories: coastline, peace, river, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: coastline, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
Thank You
Thank you

“And if the sun refused to shine”

Music finds my sleep and calls
from a bedside table,
slits of light through the slatted blinds
create mini horizons on...

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Categories: coastline, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Green In Spring
A coastline laps with glistening waves
Dotted with light from its shore-bed unseen,
While fragrance of air and gull’s trill filter
Through leafy boughs varnished in shamrock green.
How...

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Categories: coastline, color, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Optimistic Orange
CELESTE

A bevy of wavelets rushes to the shore
while on peach coastline, this quietude I feel,
Under the alloy of rocks not seen before
A hidden water-world encrypts...

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Categories: coastline, day, peace, uplifting,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Pearl of the Orient
Donning splendiferous landscapes stretching for miles,
A culture that aptly prides, in bold, welcoming smiles;
A thriving land of islands~ an archipelago evincing awe,
A resplendence of nature,...

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Categories: coastline, culture, nature, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Hockey War
Imagine life without a war,
And just a hockey game to score,
When countries start to point the blame,
They take it out in a hockey game.

If someone...

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Categories: coastline, hockey, humor,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Ancient Viking Warrior In His Old Age, a Collaboration With Vladislav Raven
The Ancient Viking Warrior In His Old Age, 
A Collaboration With Vladislav Raven

Part (1.)

Biding his time, as each day wrangles its hours away
his soul resting...

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Categories: coastline, art, courage, history, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beautiful Beirut
As the moon smiles down on the sparkling Mediterranean
The gentle rolling hills
Reach bejeweled fingers into the sea
Spilling the overflow of sparkling lights
Onto fishing boats that...

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Categories: coastline, beautiful, city,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Requiem For a Seahorse
On a sultry, sizzling July day
I swear it happened just this way
In a tidal pool, a lifeless seahorse lay

He’d not galloped to meet his fate
But...

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Categories: coastline, animal, inspiration,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The Substance of Life
Life is in essence the sunrise at dawn
A touch of fresh colour when a picture is drawn
That first morning breathe of mountain crisp air
Feelings created...

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Categories: coastline, feelings, image, life, nonsense,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Travelling In Norway
In the arctic frozen sky of the enchanting land the midnight sun
leans on the horizon briefly in bright summer and again it rises,
I didn’t know...

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Categories: coastline, adventure, nature, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Cast Away
Cast Away
Waiting for you makes me feel
Like a cast away in Malden
So much golden sand
To slide my bare feet in

My feet feel each hot grain
Fills...

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Categories: coastline, beach, blue, earth, loneliness,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs