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Best Salt Water Poems

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Premium Member Salt Water
When brainwaves strive against my need for sleep,
I exercise to help my mind calm down.
When pressures get so bad I want to weep,
I do yard...

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Categories: salt water, cry, ocean, sea, water,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member She By the Sea
I see the pain
Reflected via turquoise blue
Of the oceans hue
She stares out into the oceans depth
Lost
Her lover dead under the sea
The waves have made her...

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Categories: salt water, angst, beauty, conflict, death,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Beauty and the Beast
~Chasing Bigfoot~

Across the Bayou Waters
Into vast trails of wilderness
I follow a sound, a sullen scent  
---footprints

He was out there,
hairy large and in charge

Drugs under...

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Categories: salt water, adventure, animal, beautiful, cool,
Form: Epic
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: salt water, fantasy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
If You Were Mine
If you were mine... 

If you were mine…our footsteps would   

dance on moonlit verandas
while candle lit shimmers enticed my smiled reflections
with your arms...

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Categories: salt water, good night,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness
"Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness"



The blue lines ripple like waves
to the right side of the page
vacantly calm 

from the shallow depths 
of the ponderous...

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Categories: salt water, bullying, poets, symbolism, word
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Signal
The castle tower stands there tall and proud, 
Awaiting for your safely coming home, 
Just as I do, with tears that freely flow; 
Salt water...

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Categories: salt water, absence, boat, lonely, longing,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Dream Chaser
A dull Christmas eve, still it was better than most.
I’d heard of winter and snow in places far away–
Of cold and frozen waters and rains...

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Categories: salt water, adventure, africa, black african
Form: Sestina
Premium Member - Haiku X 158 - Splendid Sunset -
soft waves and sunshine

                     ...

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Categories: salt water, beauty, nature,
Form: Haiku
As Rust Falls From the Anchor
As rust falls from the anchor

Where do sandcastles go
when the tide engulfs the view and 
lonely shorelines crest in tear drops
beneath white capped dream chasers,
foam...

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Categories: salt water, love, ocean,
Form: Free verse
If You Were Mine
If you were mine… 


If you were mine…our footsteps would

dance on moonlit verandas while 
candle light flickers enchant my heartbeat
when your arms wrap tightly around...

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Categories: salt water, dream, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blue Sky Eye and the Hope Angels
“Blue Sky Eye and The Hope Angels”



It came to be 
that many forgot
the messages imparted 

prior to arrival
instructions were encoded 
inside all our vessels 

we...

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Categories: salt water, i am, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mist Rising
As I sit alone on this rocky shore. The mist rises around my feet and I long for much, much 
more. Just to go out...

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Categories: salt water, fantasy, imagination, nature, seasea,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Girl On the Boardwalk
                  ~Echoes of Yesterday~

    ...

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Categories: salt water, beach, childhood, how i
Form: Rhyme
New Eyes
Before the rain came,
I did not understand the words.
They were simply beauty to me
     in a foreign language
   ...

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Categories: salt water, imagination, introspection, life, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs