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Best Seaside Poems

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Soul of Seaside Sepulchre

When the 
seaside sepulchre 
of a kingdom, 
without its queen, 
is smeared with 
screams of lighting, 
I wish to crackle
these slivers 
of silver shakle, 
and...

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Categories: seaside, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Seaside Love
On our skin gleams pearl white sand
in the sheen of setting sun.
From sea deep as our love - come
waves caressing land.

For Brian Strand's
A POEM YOU...

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Categories: seaside, love
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member Seaside Memories
Late Summer sun on golden sands
Throws shadows from the cliffs and rocks
And the patiently-waiting donkeys stand
Near the aptly-named Refreshment Box.

Tea and coffee, squash and ice-cream,
Packs...

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Categories: seaside, nostalgia, sea,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Separated By a Common Language
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
                ...

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Categories: seaside, america, england, language, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member There Will Never Be Enough Time
There Will Never Be Enough Time

There will never be enough time to hear unique
music of nature's songs in its birds, its insects,
in songs of the...

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Categories: seaside, earth, mountains, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Stanzas By the Sea
I

when the world had no headsets
the sunbathing crowd
fell asleep to the sounds of
transistors played loud
while the deckchairs and windbreaks
kites, beach balls and more
formed the stripes,...

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Categories: seaside, beach, england, holiday, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Waves - Potw
Etheree 10- 12-23
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Waves ~

Waves
Glide in
On white wings,
Fleecy whitecaps
Flutter in rhythmic
Rhapsodies of seafoam
Swell across the naked sands
Hypnotic serpentines slow dance
Surges of rising tides bear spindrift
To sparkle...

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Categories: seaside, ocean, water,
Form: Etheree
An Eternity Ii
And I begin my own steep climb into 
The Chalkland Downs              ...

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Categories: seaside, betrayal, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
The Girl With Blue Aruba Eyes
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She stood amidst the tropic breeze
the girl with blue Aruba eyes
Between the fruiting mango trees
neath pastel sunset shimmered skies

Meandering this summer’s eve
we stroll the shoreline...

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Categories: seaside, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Autumn Dream
How beautiful it was in September -
a winsome wind,
the reverencing trees,
leaves talking -
this day – my autumn dream.
In sunlight’s brilliancy,
an autumn stroll
by the sea.
My sweet...

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Categories: seaside, lost love,
Form: Verse
The Other Side of Time
Suspended in a world sublime
                    ...

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Categories: seaside, beautiful, journey, time, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When You Experience a Poem Potw
The world twirls and spins
There's all that axis stuff
It makes sense to some people
I can't tell if I stand still, staring
Or tumble and fall
I see...

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Categories: seaside, poets,
Form: Free verse
Seashore Flowers
Honeysuckle by the sea
lupine blue and wild sweet pea
buttercups and hare bell fair
tiny daisies for my hair
kissed by winds
of salted spray
sweetest bloom of the day
flaxen...

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Categories: seaside, fantasy, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Emerald Morning
An Emerald Morning

Verdant sylvan shades share, 
      emerald and peridot's glossy glow 
       ...

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Categories: seaside, beauty, morning, mountains, nature,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Blast of Sand and Surf
the beach’ll be a blast
             of sand and surf
    ...

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Categories: seaside, beach,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs