Best The Ocean Poems

You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing  
   I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer  
   I have ever known how to say  

You are the sea—each wave not an argument but a hymn  
   a hymn without...

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I the ocean
watch sailing ships
in the salty air 
pass over me

I hold mystery from
the cusp of the moon
an endless view
for all to see

Where laughing gulls
sit on driftwood,
my crashing waves deliver
to shore

Where Great Blue Heron
stalk the beach 
Where the tide pools
gather in the rocks

Sandpipers dodge 
the under toe
as wind collides my waves
with land

Leaving sea shells broken
in...

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If you are the ocean, then I am the mist
which kisses the morning the way children kissed
their mother at breakfast to start a new day
If you are the ocean, then anchors aweigh
We'll sail through the evening and on to the light
The daystar is dawning, we'll keep to the right
like Peter and Wendy to Neverlands' door
we'll...

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I 
dance with
the ocean
jumping blue waves -
soaking in its stretch of sun-drenched beauty


Wriitten Dec. 8, 2015 by Andrea Dietrich
on the theme of ocean for the "Language of Water" Poetry contest of nette onclaud...

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The sands on the beach
Are like the colour of her hair
As i sit by the ocean
All i can do is stare

The blue of the ocean water
Can never match her eyes
Despite our natures wishes
All she can do is try

The blue skies above her
Carpet her ceiling surround
Her posture of delight
In plentiful abound

Her body is slight and tanned
A...

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My heart yearns not for the mountain-way
  With its green of grass and tree;
My heart calls out for the ocean spray
   And the sound of the surf-roiling free!

Give me a land with its feet in the sea,
   Its low-swelling shoulders nearby;
The voice of the waves is like music to me
...

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"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."  Aristotle


I
relax
~ listening ~
in tranquil state
~ to white crested waves ~
tumbling, rumbling, throbbing
towards shore’s protruding rocks.
~ ~ With pulsating rhythmic caress ~ ~
** they erode my few lingering doubts. **  
~ ~  The ocean song gently lulls me to sleep. ~ ~

_...

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the ocean speaks a
language we all understand. . .
serene to surly


7-11-17...

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The view from our cruise ship 
Conjures far-flung images of amber hues
A fusion of illusion and reality 
Where bending arc of the horizon
Greets the magnificent ocean.

The ocean flows, having done so
Billion years plus so many more
Churning, foaming, bouncing, dancing 
From Atlantic to Pacific, Arctic to Antarctic 
And every continent in between.

It goes to war flaunting...

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Cast the burdens of your heart
Into the restless sea
Allowing them to be forever swallowed
Setting your heart free

Release the troubles from your mind
Unto the whispering wind
Never to be heard from
Within your mind again

Empty the sorrow within your soul
Unto the blistering sun
For it to be forever burnt up
Once this deed is done

Breath in deeply the beauty of...

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The azure ocean, home to the embedded enormous incomprehensible riches of mysteries and riddles,
More than the Mars, lies unfathomed, underneath the conundrum of oceanic colossal rhythms. 

From the The Milky Sea Phenomenon, a sight captured as bioluminescence illusion,
The Purple Orb of the ocean floor of California and the Baltic Sea’s anomalous puzzles,
Like the alien spaceship...

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Under the ocean where King Neptune rules,
multiple species of fish form schools.
The most fantastical fish you'll ever see,
is a mermaid in her long-haired glory.

Sirens of the sea are they,
their voices one with the ocean waves.
Half human with a fish's tail,
they appear to watch the ships that sail.

Known for their beauty and seductive ways,
their lives consist...

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Laying here staring out across the ocean,
listening to the sound of waves roaring,
gazing up at all of the glimmering stars,
lighting up the sea like a dance floor.

Counting stars as blessings life has given me,
thanking God for each and everyone of them,
so relaxing just lying next to the shore lines,
trying to draw in the last bits...

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I
Waited
Patiently
For you to call
I feel so lonely
Longing to hear your voice
Azure sea keeps us apart
Suddenly the telephone rings
The smile in your voice eases my heartache

19th May 2015

Reverse Nonet - not sure what the correct form is called...

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Form above tears slowly falls into the ocean,
Rippling sounds into the night’s sky, like a sea lions raw emotion.
Beneath its floors human search’s for hidden treasures,
Yet we its true, and mysterious  inhabitants fall into its mystifying pleasures.
Everything is tranquil and is set into a beautiful motion....

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