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Best Tide Poems

Below are the all-time best Tide poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tide poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand

I planned for you, an...

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Categories: tide, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Lyric



Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Boat
"I wandered lonely as a cloud."  William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a boat   
a shallow dingy left behind,  
alone in marsh...

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Categories: tide, age, boat, fate, lonely,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Swan
The Swan 

Feathers floating in the wind
Perform in slow motion,
Each drift into the shadows of yesterday
She is not me -- She is not you!

A theme,...

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Categories: tide, beautiful, romantic, wife,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Do I Hold the Wind
On the edge of silence 
beyond the mossy-muffled stone wall
a wind chime chants — faint, like falling sparkles of stars—
honeyed musings of a wind spirit...

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Categories: tide, grief, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snow Globe
Welcome to my ----- life
A beautifully broken aura
             Unsettled flakes
   ...

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Categories: tide, confusion, death, dream, future,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member listen to life -
have you not heard me?

borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
    still, you...

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Categories: tide, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Chorus Sang Its Last Concerto
I walked in darkness along the shore
seeking only solitude and nothing more
Thunder drummed from somewhere far away
like foreboding timpani as clouds began to play
They competed...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tide, beach, emotions,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Green Anniversaries
This is not a time for us
Facing these weeks of hospital walls
My knight now jousts an invisible foe
Shorn of hair, yet still he wears
Tubes of...

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Categories: tide, cancer, hope, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Liquid Heaven
Liquid Heaven

A feast for my womanly inner beast!       
I tease, I please, you have me on my knees
I wring...

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Categories: tide, body, happiness, heaven, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Glory of the Eastern Edge
In moments of twilight civility
an exchange of gifts - 
darkness for light..

RISING

from beyond the softening silhouette edge
you brighten like a blushing damsel
hazy haloed
unabashed in the...

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Categories: tide, appreciation, beauty, imagery, morning,
Form: Free verse
The Universe of You
I have never seen a flower blush when I took it's hue
and held it there a prisoner captive to my view.

I have always heard the...

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Categories: tide, autumn, beautiful, love, planet,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Footprints
Frothy waves stretch to kiss toes
Hikers plodding sandy coasts
Leaving imprints on the shore

Who journeyed here, perhaps this morn
As the orange orb created dawn
Summoning sun worshipers

Footprints...

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Categories: tide, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eccentric Eyes
Open eyed, long tearless, foul silvered orbs
have you no pity? The aqua tide rides dry.
Blind staring scorches, accusing twin barbs
who burrow inward, a destiny to...

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Categories: tide, pain,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member sea song -
oh precious, dulcet diva, ocean-tide
you, of sand and foam and spindrift -
all your moods and meanderings
speak deep my spirit, wistful and wan
musings captured, gist enraptured...

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Categories: tide, analogy, appreciation, beach, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Friend
when demons scream
fabricating falsehoods
i'll summon the angels
to help ease your mind

when you feel damaged
too broken to whisper
in dull blank darkness
i'll illuminate like stars

when dreams are...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tide, community, emotions, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs