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Best Riptides Poems

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Premium Member Wanderlust of Imagination
In the endless expanse 
of what exists
and the magic of what can be...

fantasy is the luster of opalescence

conceived in a continual curve of mother-of-pearl panache...

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Categories: riptides, imagination, inspiration, introspection, muse,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Sea Shells Song
I've listened to it's calling, in awes amazement
Felt the rush of the waves between my bare feet,
Allowing the bubbles of sea form to explode,
As I...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riptides, art, beauty, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mermaid's Flight
MERMAID'S FLIGHT: A Collaborative Sea Sonnet

Mermaid's Flight

Poseidon drew up from the salty sea,
a silver splash of wave from Earth to Moon.
Sailor appealing Neptune's pride of...

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Categories: riptides, art, beautiful, love, mythology,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In Inspirations Meadow
In inspirations meadow, the soul roams freely through imaginations
Timeless thoughts, here I’m a boundless spirit soaring in flights fantasy.
Kicking the stardust from the night’s eternal...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riptides, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
The Mad Hatter
Multiple choices with one last try, amid this myriads maze

Someone very dear unto myself asked me the other day

"Is the sun shining where you are?"

So...

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Categories: riptides, art, baby, cancer, love,
Form: I do not know?



Skipping Stones
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Skipping stones across the still quite waters 

While as enclosed within these submerged thoughts....

Pondering this blanket of fogful mist alongst the path, have I tread...

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Categories: riptides, hope, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Teardrop
"I wandered lonely as cloud."  William Wordsworth


I Wandered Lonely as a Teardrop 

I wandered lonely as a teardrop
In a sea of sand,
A tempest in...

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Categories: riptides, angst, grief, journey, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sandbar
I dwell on this sandbar. 
Between the shallows and the deep.
So free and yet so oppressed.
But during the rarest of moments
I truly know that I...

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Categories: riptides, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sun Smiles at the Pain
Rubbing boys shoulders with sunburn oil. The sun smiles at the pain, the brush of fingers against raw flesh. But like a war wound, those...

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Categories: riptides, travel,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Maryland Summer
Our Robin’s nest on twenty-eighth bayside,
strung like the Kite’s Loft display.
Free and now flowed with the tide,
as we watched the sunrise of each day.

Center courts...

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Categories: riptides, beach, beauty, drink, friendship,
Form: Quatrain
Life Is Like a Flowing River
Life is like river
with a constant flow
death dealer and life giver
in its murky waters we grow
not much of a forgiver
cold riptides can drag you below
but...

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© Free Byrd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riptides, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Hope-And a Father Is Could Be
Hope and…a father is could be 

Against all odds and expectations
so many rules and norms and
clever theories society’s demands
cultures and conventions there is
no magic wand...

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Categories: riptides, childhood, fantasy, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mermaids
From beneath foam and spray, where the
Sun light never penetrates, in fathom's chilly forbidden
Realm lies a kingdom of golden coral reefs.
Poseidon’s children of the murky...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riptides, beautiful, fantasy, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Unmoving Pillar
At times I feel like I’m surrounded by this strange force 
it’s like the worlds resting on my shoulders 
And it’s weight is trying to...

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Categories: riptides, anxiety, bible, christian, courage,
Form: Free verse
Mermaid's Flight: Collaborative Sea Sonnet
Mermaid's Flight

Poseidon drew up from the salty sea,
a silver splash of wave from Earth to Moon.
Sailor appealing Neptune's pride of three,
gazed down fantasizing mermaid's kiss...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riptides, adventure, fantasy, jealousy, love,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs