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Best Saltiness Poems

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Seductive Saltiness Beckons Me
leaving the hot sands 
of comfort wading into 
the salty unknown 
diving headlong into 
its coldness that shocks 
my body I rise to breathe 
while...

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Categories: saltiness, beach, beautiful, confidence, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wind From the Sea
Inspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947




Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...

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Categories: saltiness, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The One That Got Away - Silence of What Ifs
If a poet falls in love with you
you will live forever.
Atticus Finch - To kill a mockingbird.

In the midst of conundrums, of 'what ifs.'

I dislike...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saltiness, loss, love, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Last Tear
the saltiness of love
a riveting fall
unlike other tears
this solitary shed
like a drip of life-blood
the lance of each freckle
an almost feckless drive over the sallow cheek
finally...

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Categories: saltiness, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Glorifying God Vii
Each time I see:

The golden sun
The silver moon
The platinum stars 
            I see Thee,...

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Categories: saltiness, devotion, god, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Yes, Love the Salty Ocean
 

Yes, love the salty ocean rocky shore,
and gaze at endless blue waves in motion;
with a restless and merciless loud roar,
I adore the wild salty...

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Categories: saltiness, ocean,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Premium Member Salt of the Earth
Everyone will be salted with fire. “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among...

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Categories: saltiness, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Want To Live
I want to live
Not to focus on the end
Or on ENDING it
Not to see what’s wrong but right
Try to see beyond darkness to light
I want...

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Categories: saltiness, hope, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
She Is the Liquid Night
She is the liquid night
The fluid obsidian chalice
She engulfs me

Her breath is frangipani
It is the air I breathe
She permeates me 

In her starlit vision
In her...

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Categories: saltiness, desire, love, lust, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Know You - Collaboration With Chris Green
I see her, ecstatic under thundering skies, red flashed lightning
Long hair static, arms spread wide,
savoured downpour, dance.... exuberant

As if day becomes night, a crimson moon,...

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Categories: saltiness, beautiful, dance, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Wind From the Sea -- Re-Post
Inspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947




Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...

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Categories: saltiness, depression, hope, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tempestuous Storm
Time and tide again waits for no man
tempest-tossed upon life’s billow
The hull or the dinghy
Serves as a fortress
Though steady on its keel
Knocked his wits and...

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© Rowe Weiss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saltiness, anger, angst, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
At Home In the Darkness
At Home In The Darkness

I am not afraid of dying
I have spent a thousand years in darkness
Hiding behind a million nightmares
My existence is not what...

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Categories: saltiness, depressionhome, home,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Blue Eyes
Blue- SPARKLES 
            from my twinkling eyes, 
      ...

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Categories: saltiness, art, beauty, dark,
Form: Free verse
Salty Sentinels
When lyrics and music are combined they take on a whole new life.
When chlorine and sodium assimilate they make salt.
Separately they are limited, combined they...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: saltiness, science,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs