Summer Vignettes
...Cruising in a yacht
Sailing on the sparkling sea
Seagulls squawk above
Walking on the shore
Drinking sweet pineapple juice
And collecting shells
Taking a moment
To breathe in the salty s...
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Categories:
coconut palm, beach, fun, summer,
Form: Haiku
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Heading Out
...A dawning twilight's me. Oh, joy. Oh, what a joy. This day. Oh, what a day. A breath bestills my eyes and I, e'er slight, a deeper breath that reopened them and myself to a blessed pleasing. ...
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Categories:
coconut palm, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration,
Form: Narrative
Your Hearten Heart Love Solid Coconut My Fruit
...What is a coconut heart made of?
O’ the distal taste of love for me
Hardening of my left side no longer bleeds
The heart of coconut the coconut palm
So sticks in my breathe
Close to the...
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Categories:
coconut palm, analogy, appreciation, flower,
Form: Rhyme
The Cursed Drupe
...
Completely unrestrained, sun drenched and yummy,
Tasting of the tropics, flavors so tender,
Falling from the coconut tree to greet my tummy,
Great amounts of fiber found in each bite...
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Categories:
coconut palm, appreciation, nature,
Form: Rhyme
A Squirrel's Dream
...I dream of spending my hibernation
on a coconut palm in the Caribbean
where instead of sleeping
morning, noon and night
I’ll be too busy
chomping down nutty peanut cakes
and sipping daiquiris o...
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Categories:
coconut palm, animal, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Kalapana Beaches
...Black
sandy
full-of-life
magnificent
beaches with laid back coconut palm trees
Welcoming both surfs and surfers back in
for a relaxed
breathtaking
sunset
view
walks
neath a
lunar ris...
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Categories:
coconut palm, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Tetractys
My Guest From Finland
...Rural eyes fall upon my white guest with golden hairs.
She’s put on jeans, not a sari, and an orange T-shirt, not a blouse.
Brown children chase her in wonder along our country road.
I’m her host...
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Categories:
coconut palm, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Observation From a Living Room Window: On Koko Isle
...Looking out, everything but the mountains
seems affected by wind today
It drives the sea green water that divides
our little island from the other bay
Coconut palm leaves, wildly sway
color an...
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Categories:
coconut palm, beauty, day, mountains, sea,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Tit-Bits
...Nature's tit- bits!
Gentle droplets of rain
on the colocasia leaves
slide like glossy silver grain
wish these pearls my palm receives
and I weave them into a chain!
A black-pepper vine...
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Categories:
coconut palm, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Beach Beauty
...beach that's long and white
seen through the coconut palm
picture perfect view
13 April 2015
SKAT's Picture Perfect Haiku #1 Contest...
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Categories:
coconut palm, art, beach, beauty, nature,
Form: Haiku
Coconut
...It answered to my thirst from the top
When I watered a coconut palm root
My hands stroked his head's top
He kicked me in force with his foot!...
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Categories:
coconut palm, community, hurt, thanksgiving,
Form: Light Verse
Love's Quest
...by Michaelw1two
Inspired by Kah Mee Lee
Love's wonder at once questioned,
a soul with pen in hand;
script dripping of loveliness,
avowed her mind as grand;
a dreamy twelfth sign princess,
who...
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Categories:
coconut palm, love,
Form: Free verse
Flotsam and Jetsam
...The sea was calm on that fateful day
The crew keen and eager to get on their way
The cargo was loaded, all men were on board
The captain at the helm was standing tall
They raised the anchor with a m...
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Categories:
coconut palm, adventure, sea,
Form: Narrative
On Malvan Beach
...Place: Malvan beach, konkan, Maharashtra, India
By: Sashi Prabhu, Date: 3rd march 2012.
As I trudge along with fancy and conceit,
Tender soles and bare feet.
Sandy saunter through v...
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Categories:
coconut palm, adventure, blue, blue, fish,
Form: Couplet
My Pacific Ocean Island
...There is an island
In the Pacific ocean
Surrounded by blues
In various motions
The blue of the water
Reflects from the sky
Turquoise and dark
Either makes me sigh
With mountains of lush g...
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Categories:
coconut palm, inspirational, nature, places, seablue,
Form: Rhyme
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