Best Squally Poems

‘Tis You’

It’s a tempestuous, wuthering, wuthering day
as I set forth exuberant and merrily on my way.
I pause to hearken to the symphony of sound
as natures...

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silver spray soaking
shell scattered sandy shoreline  ~
squally sea subsides


Written 24th August 2020

For haiku 6 poetry contest 

Sponsored By Brian Strand...

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You become Raffles and its Long Bar.
Better, I'd imagine, than it needs,
or probably deserves.
Happy, fair,
tanned loveliness with a dash of sauce
and a hint, I think,...

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Gone under the gripping waves of squally sea of sorrow
Remains of the castle I built with silver sands of dream,
Emerging out of the debris I...

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In the opaque mist of the fading night
you disappeared so early before time,
I didn’t know why.
My squally sky fell in torrents of sorrow,
filled to the...

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Racing the oval of tide
Watching the sun and moon collide

Riding on horses in the oval of fate
Saddling on courses in the ring of slate

Horses in...

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The river is smooth, quiet, and serene.
Our fishing boat is at one with the flow.
Years from now I'll remember this scene
And wish it were like...

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Chilled by cold Canadian air
Lake Okanagan’s waters run deep
And so does its Ogopogo
A legend the centuries keep

Native Americans feared it
Animal sacrifices were made
Before they boarded...

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My hopes became big and bold
The mind could no longer hold
They grew wings of lofty desire
On birds flying in the squally air.
Through the arch of...

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I sought my truth within the sky
The squally blue, my wings to ply
A thrust on thermals, carried high
And yet, the gospel that I found?
My feet...

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The life stream swerves in undulating landscape,
the concert of murmur cascades melody 
that ripples in the whispering air,
the sound of music flies past me unheard
in...

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THE SENTINEL
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

					

I took the elevator to the lobby of the small hotel
I’d been here six days the ennui was starting to tell
I’d been...

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Where Is My Lighthouse 
In This Storm Of Life
For The Light Has Dimmed Or 
Maybe Just Gone Out

Tho’ There  Are Struggles 
Albeit A Lot...

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Cletus O'Toole spent some time in Reno

  Where he lost his shirt playin' at keno

    This caused a great deal of...

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Dainty drizzle drops of melted cloud alight 
Descending as tumbling torrent of shower
In the deep darkness of the opaque night.

Blows of winds' wrath the squally...

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