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Best Sandcastles Poems

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Sandcastles
When I was a young boy,
I built a castle on the beach.
I made it from sand with my shovel-toy,
Then the waves grabbed it in their...

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Categories: sandcastles, childhood, funny, nature
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sandcastles By the Sea and Castles In the Air
Sandcastles built upon a pristine beach are a marvel to behold,
  
   With much pride taken by the architect to design and...

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Categories: sandcastles, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Disenchanted Sandcastles
Disenchanted sandcastles

Alone on a silent shoreline,
sea breeze emotions paint my skin
Sands of time slip away as I count the stars
wondering why so many seem to...

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Categories: sandcastles, loneliness,
Form: Free verse



Sandcastles
silver tipped teal swell
unhurried race to shoreline
… a child's dream disposed
...

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Categories: sandcastles, child, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Sandcastles





   Sandcastles built with the hope
   That fairytales will come true
   Lives lived in dreamland demand
   That...

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Categories: sandcastles, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Ruins In Sandcastles
Scared to fall asleep
As tides rip open shelters
Of childhood castles...

Scared to lower bridge
As hopeful heart cries exposed
Under jogger's shoe...

Ephemeral  life
Whales eco-locate my soul
Tacit castles...

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Categories: sandcastles, life
Form: Haiku



Sandcastles of Time
We erected sandcastles on the seashore.
I designed them and you painstakingly formed them
into edifices, complete with turrets, flags, and moats.
We even won the contest for...

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Categories: sandcastles, age, caregiving, emotions, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Memory --Sandcastles--
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                    sunburned, sleeping child--

  ...

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Categories: sandcastles, childhood, happiness
Form: Haiku
Sandcastles On Beach of Love
Castles of sand 
on the beach of love
never crumble.

Love thy name is 
Eternity.





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© Kash Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sandcastles, philosophy
Form: Free verse
Human Sandcastles
we build ourselves up
into what we want to be...
life's tide erodes us...

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© Jim David  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sandcastles, people
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Sandcastles
We can’t defeat the clock,
despite our best intent.
No buffer to the shock,
no reason to lament.

Don’t be sad, don’t be scared,
you can’t abandon hope.
Think of all...

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Categories: sandcastles, death, funeral, grief, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Summertime Sandcastles
Summertime is here
Golden sands await the rush
Territories shared

Excitement abounds
Buckets and spades in frenzy
Silica shapes form

Children creating
Young voices resonating
Sandcastles they show...

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Categories: sandcastles, childhood, family, children, holiday,
Form: Haiku
Sandcastles
"Daddy look at all the sandcastles"
"Aren't they all so grand?"
"Who could have known a king and his throne,
Could simply be made out of sand"

"Look at...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sandcastles, life, loss, daughter, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sandcastles
Sandcastle crumbles
Waves wash away residue
Taking dreams with it

won 9th place...

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Categories: sandcastles, nature
Form: Haiku
Sandcastles
When she dreams of following streams,
of childlike castles in the sand,
with ancient pebbles in her hand,
seen through brown eyes that gleam.
As the tides leave tales...

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Categories: sandcastles, black african american, childhood,
Form: Sonnet