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Best Onshore Poems

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


Premium Member The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F  l  y  i  n  g

a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth 
and...

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Categories: onshore, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gifts of Sky and Sea

White evanescent waves roll on the shore
     with such felicity of frothy bliss.
Rhapsodic sounds explode as they explore;
   ...

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Categories: onshore, blessing, nature, sea, sky,
Form: Sonnet
The Prodigal Son!?
And then I took this box of blight, and cast it into the sea of forgetfulness

Once I had finally realized, that it had become a...

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Categories: onshore, faith, happiness, life, loveme,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member For Those Locked In An Escape
As life is in chaos and the times are stressed here are four Sonnets of the Sea to allow your mind and soul to escape...May...

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Categories: onshore, inspirational, peace, sea,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Hurricane
The hurricane leaped onshore
dancing with delight
unhinging the tops of buildings
releasing them into the air
like balloons
whose knots are untied
then kicking the hapless battered bottoms 
far down...

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Categories: onshore, natural disasters, violence, wind,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member My Father Gone These Forty Years
My father gone these forty years,
my mother gone twenty, I remember...
the acrid smell of tobacco on my mother’s rough fingers,
as she sat, silently, in a...

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Categories: onshore, angst, childhood, depression, family,
Form: Narrative
You Are Mine
Saints gave you souls of growing 
Humans coined  you a shape of flesh 
The Sun made you bright and warming
The Moon decorated  you...

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Categories: onshore, beauty, black love, for
Form: Verse
Lions Will Be Lions
Humiliation occurs
When pigs and monkeys roars
How a pig became a lion?
How , How a monkey roars?
That's when you stop saying NO
Humiliation occurs
When the lions are...

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Categories: onshore, adventure, faith, fear, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Wander Me
Gimme a wind, a harsh unforgiving March onshore slap in the face lean into and step out wind. Scrub me clean 
of all this wait...

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Categories: onshore, hopeme, me,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Ps: My Boss Wants To Kick My Ass
Outbound calling is a given task.
Log in only in one website,he asked.
But this addiction don't know when would last.
this affecting my job,Oh no!
Am I losing...

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Categories: onshore, addiction, career,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member In a Land Far Away
On an easy breezy day in a land far away, it came to pass
that a polar bear mother gave birth to a roly-poly ball of...

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Categories: onshore, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Lost At Sea
I thought I would have soon forgotten your touch and even your taste but the feeling of your lips pressed against mine there was nothing...

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Categories: onshore, art, beautiful, confidence, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Ebbtide
she sat there with only one tear rolling alone to drip between her knees
Splattering on the tidal flow below.
Cross legged with ankles aching on wet...

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Categories: onshore, daughtergod, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Harbor Lights
Before us, the harbor unfurls its tapestry of lights, 
Serried jewels winking on numberless nights.
Onshore, they’re jostled in a million-starred galaxy,
Into the harbor they spill...

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Categories: onshore, beauty, for her, imagination,
Form: Couplet
Fantasy Poetic Verses
would that I could
pick up reception
of celestial transmissions
with a couple'a old soup can phones
and country miles of string
(would they have harp string ring tones?)
and ask the old...

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Categories: onshore, father, love,
Form: Free verse

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