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Best Driftwood Poems

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Premium Member This Night
I’m driftwood, and I’m floating out to sea
as sun descends upon my home - the grove
of trees whose fragrance still remains with me.
And likewise, heaven’s...

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Categories: driftwood,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Along Dawn's Amber Shores
Dawn slowly awakened to supplant the moon
Empty, the canopy where stars had been strewn
   In repose, Luna slept after wandering velvet skies
 ...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: driftwood, poetry, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Waves - Potw
Etheree 10- 12-23
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Waves ~

Waves
Glide in
On white wings,
Fleecy whitecaps
Flutter in rhythmic
Rhapsodies of seafoam
Swell across the naked sands
Hypnotic serpentines slow dance
Surges of rising tides bear spindrift
To sparkle...

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Categories: driftwood, ocean, water,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Her Soft Canal
The powder of white sand holds her flesh
close to his musk pelvis
as she gasps with the murmured waves
trembling on the coast
of a fragrant mouth against...

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Categories: driftwood, passion, places, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Woodcarvers Reward
He walked along the beach a man forlorn
Forgotten were his dreams, his heart was torn
The gentle waves spoke of the years gone by
And drew salt...

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Categories: driftwood, fantasy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member I the Ocean
I the ocean
watch sailing ships
in the salty air 
pass over me

I hold mystery from
the cusp of the moon
an endless view
for all to see

Where laughing gulls
sit...

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Categories: driftwood, ocean,
Form: Personification
Categories: driftwood, loss, love, ocean,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member The Whore and the Sea Part 1
The moon was neither full, nor was it not
She shone down radiant lighting the misty ole night
The waves lapped the shore
As a gentle breeze streaked...

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Categories: driftwood, allegory, angel, french, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Like Pebbles On a Beach
We became like pebbles on a beach
touching in the depths, caressing in the shallows
Crystal waves, crested us above the deep abyss

In ever ending caress, we...

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Categories: driftwood, life, lost love
Form: Free verse
They'Re Lovers
See how the ocean glides back in to kiss the shore?
              ...

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Categories: driftwood, beach, beauty, blessing, heaven,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Silhouette
Out walking on the beach alone, 
Waves breaking with a somber tone. 
I was only a stumble 
From cracking up and crashing down. 
Old driftwood...

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Categories: driftwood, allegory, women,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Our Peach
In a moment of magic I once gave her a juicy innocent peach

Not yet knowing that she harboured a sweet nascent dream

In which as a...

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Categories: driftwood, beach,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bells
It was the bronzed bell of a tinseled Ocean ship.
Until destiny was scuttled by a fiery water witch.  
In time, it became the haunting...

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Categories: driftwood, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Sunrise On the Beach
Shades of pink paint the sky
gentle waves kiss my feet
return again to the sea
seagulls cry

Sun rises to bring the day
the dampness of the night
fading away
a...

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Categories: driftwood, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flowering of Spring
Amassed in flamboyant Azalea blooms when my garden is free of the cold.
Bird of Paradise, dressed in purple and orange,  wear their colors so...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: driftwood, beauty, flower, spring, daffodils,
Form: Abecedarian

Book: Reflection on the Important Things