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Best Indian Ocean Poems

Below are the all-time best Indian Ocean poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of indian ocean poems written by PoetrySoup members


South Africa
Listen to the jazz instrumentals of Masekela,
as you take red wine outside a thatched
shelter in a beach in the Western Cape.

Enjoy a hearty meal of...

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Categories: indian ocean, africa, culture, dedication, journey,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Mayan Declared
The year is 2025
I have come back to my past
To witness the Mayans
Who said Earth would not last

2012
Was the year they declared
That the planet we...

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Categories: indian ocean, angst, death, fantasy, history,
Form: Rhyme
I Am So Tired
I am tired of counting the red dwarf stars in the Milky Way.
I am tired of counting the 7 years of grain in Pharaoh's silos.
I...

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© Beryl Dov  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: indian ocean, bereavement, dark, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Incredible India: My Motherland
Ah, to this land of the monsoons
or should it have been the sunsoons? 
Yet for frozen land tourists, a tropical hot boon.

Where bullock carts, stray...

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Categories: indian ocean, patriotic, places,
Form: Verse
A Dream
Cerulean sky,
a dove with an olive branch
no marchpast below,
no guns,armymen waiting
patiently to receive it.

This dream in my mind,
flowers in armymen's hands,
single sky above,
only one race...

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© Kash Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: indian ocean, hope, peace,
Form: Tanka



Orchard of Perspectives
        Black boxes atop a vintage shelf
           ...

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Categories: indian ocean, analogy, hope, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Free verse
She Is My Sun
SHE   IS   MY   SUN

A rush of sun fills this still dim room
As spring comes to the pallid wintry land,...

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Categories: indian ocean, romanceme, me, sun,
Form: Quintain (English)
Vermillion Sunrise At Kanyakumari
"A glance at the magical hues splashed into sky at dawn
Paints a picture of hope in my mind's blank canvas" ~ quote by poet


At the...

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Categories: indian ocean, nature, sky, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member After the Funeral
After The Funeral

Tim had found his place after the party. Faring well in his urn he waited to be scattered. Compartmentalised, fragmented and united into...

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Categories: indian ocean, death,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Ocean
We are Winkin, Blinkin and Nod.
Many years this earth, we have trod.
We each had a dream, we three.
Winkin first said” my dream came back to...

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Categories: indian ocean, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mauritius
My motherland, the land of four colors, the land of sweetness
As is described by its rich history, filled with wars and battles
United it stands today,...

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Categories: indian ocean, africa, nature, ocean,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Ode To Earthquake -W
(My ode to Earthquake is an irregular ode. The ode is written in
memory of an earthquake that took place in Gujarat State (Kutch Region) 
of...

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Categories: indian ocean, mother, poetry,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Ode To An Earthquake-W
What a day you chose, Grandma Mine!
To quake, to move, to shiver, to shake
Thereby to ravage, to savage, to shatter,
The celebrations of Mother India Republic...

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Categories: indian ocean, nature, independence day,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Winds of the World
Pampero you rush across the pampa's of Argentina
blowing fast and strong bending all before you.
Mighty and powerful you make your presence known
as you travel o'er...

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Categories: indian ocean, wind,
Form: Epic
My Beautiful Kenya
A nonchalant summers breeze seeps silent through a window 
Left ajar 
Carries soft memories scent of 
Warm kenyan musk air 
Which rests in a deep...

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Categories: indian ocean, holiday, nostalgia,
Form: I do not know?

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