Best Tidal Bore Poems

Washed away on current strong,
Into the sea, he's gone...
No more button eye smiles,
No more tattered shirt,
Oh my poor old Teddy-Bear,
I truely feel your hurt....

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you ...
are my moon
(whisper me, coolly)
wan and pale as porcelain
milky moll - `china doll ...
dancing the sky like a Ginza geisha
stars tickling your toes
prettily petulant,...

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An old man wrote upon the sand,
          Sea foam sweeping to the shore,
   ...

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Spring tide
pounding against
a rocky relationship

between the
new moon and
earth’s pie in the sky.

On an island
of one’s own making
in the mind —

like a whirlpool
when imagination
slips away

on a...

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I found her jacket folded 'midst the drift,
          Atop her shoes but 'neath a ribbon, red,
...

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Several sirens singing on the shore
Called Calypso’s crew for them to adore.
Willing witless wanderers;
Oblivious obeyers, 
Which waves washed through a rocky tidal bore.

Svelte sisters sieved...

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Turn into a transparent cloud
and find your way to Heaven;
take a voyage into the unknown
with an excitement never allowed. 

Glance at the vast cosmos without...

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He hung there, a sobering sight, 
like the full moon on a misty night. 
John Riox, smothered in slime, 
ghastly ghost adrift in time. 

He...

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We knaves had orders both explicit and dumb:
Scare the blazes out of a management bum.
Thunderstorm weather rocked wide Prince William Sound,
Feisty gales pouring rain all...

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sigh …

a lifetime ago
I breathed here, vital -
dangled my topsiders over these
pier stones and pilings
tempting the dark leviathans
that swam beneath the bloated
August moon, reflected …
kissing...

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Driftwood Fire


Today, I walked the rocky shore
Enjoying the winds wild choir
And gathered there as I have before
The fuel for a driftwood fire.

Where came these twists...

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It all started with a single tear.
You might have been far from it,
You might have been near,
But tears turn to puddles fast,
Congregrating, to streams, at...

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Charles Babbage
The full package
His invention tidal bore
Led to computers galore!

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2nd place: ABCD Clerihew - 4 Lines contest; Sponsored by Joseph May...

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Tho' bore your fate 'tis artless place you lone
Your girth--your hold freedoms--your claims be more
Restrained your gambled trade choice place bemoan
Shewn thee frankly tho' toughened...

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