Brackish Poems - Poems about Brackish

... "Sliders" 500 clicks down, was code phrase for battle ships gone all depth charge. The deeper you go down that black-holed sink, the more you understand in your oxygen deprived brain,......Read the rest...

...I hate wet socks. I'm knee-deep with diapers floating by. The steel stairs steps (that go up!) Just 10 feet from me. Seawater pouring in from every orifice. I'd be dead already if I had not bri......Read the rest...

...On a shattered pebble beach my kernel, becomes this dervish dancing to the maniacal symbol rash tune, of inchoate monsoon grass beat timpani, that’s dimly frowned on by sonic virtuoso, but terms ......Read the rest...

...It was the bronzed bell of a tinseled Ocean ship. Until destiny was scuttled by a fiery water witch. In time, it became the haunting clang upon a reef. A macabre Nic Nac for cliques that ruled t......Read the rest...

...segment of the sun lemandarin, semi-black ‘midst toasty branches floats flamingos, flaming pink in lagoon’s brackish parquet *hybrid between mandarin orange and lem......Read the rest...

...Brooding River This winter saw a lot of rain in the river near the houses, still running clear and lucid, giving its soul to the ocean On the old Roman bridge, I asked the river to stop wasting ......Read the rest...

...a bed of stones unloosed to spill from its path through fresh waters flow to the distant sea laving pebbles from its silty rough wrath from rivers fresh to brackish brine's debris the journey end......Read the rest...

...A well-water pump cranks out its iron-water crooked wire remains -- once, sturdy chicken coops The brackish, muddy area over there, the cowshed some withered trees dot the hills, bereft ......Read the rest...

...after Ho Chi Minh I The stone basin holds still water. The still water drinks the arid sponge as rays of pure energy slake their thirst on the ebon wings of crows II Ya......Read the rest...

...Nets are hauled and homeward go the shrimp boats rolling slow and easy on a sunset path, their droning engines chugging over a rippling seafoam. In the mangrove swamp an egret sets its white s......Read the rest...

...there’s a problem with faith. Yes, I’ve seen mothers with interlaced fingers & optimistic minds will god into sick children. Faith firm as cinderblocks, building retaining walls against floods......Read the rest...

...distortions of grandeur and praise infect me and make me your slave tranquility is but a phase the sullen, the meek, the depraved like shying fleece on the barter delusions of ardor......Read the rest...

..."Under the amber sun's warmth seagulls squawk embraced in the freewheeling briny breeze and hum of the ocean's bosom." Quote by poet Sun ember warm light dances a brilliantly choreographed waltz......Read the rest...

...We deemed that we could never be beaten. Our flaws, too, turned out to be an asset. I would grant you a drink once you've eaten. Passionfruit, to recall which silhouette My confidence......Read the rest...

... "Oak" The guardians stood around and shook their heads great thoughts quivering from the ground, roots up, as if to walk confidently with great armies y......Read the rest...