Capsizing the Costa Concordia
Capsizing the Costa Concordia
Divers wreathe silently through
the submerged corridors of a
140,000-ton wreck. Little fish
dark haphazardly through
the juxtaposition of tilted ballroom,
granite bars fixed in place.
Black waters lit green by headlamps
provide a surreal spotlight
for a loveseat drifting by
A vase of Chinese dollar plants poised delicately
on a marble counter.
Across the underwater tomb,
toppled chairs, tumbled together,
wait patiently to be repositioned
outside
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Categories:
costa, sea,
Form: Alliteration
No Llores Por Ml Costa Rica
No llores por mí Costa Rica
Don’t cry for me Costa Rica
Me llamo Cabuya de la familia Agave.
My name is Cabuya from the Agave family.
Yo tengo hojas largas y verdes con forma de espadas dentadas como chorros de agua de una fuente.
I have long green leaves shaped like serrated swords shooting out of a fountain.
Estoy de
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Categories:
costa, nature,
Form: Free verse
I'm Watching the Jousting at Warwick Castle with a Costa Cappuccino
horses, lances, arrows, fire
they reenact the war of the roses
the outdoor setting
has been erected next to Costa
outside on the ground
napkins, zarfs and stirrers
and half the audience gets their
medieval caffeine hit
that encourages us to yell and whoo-hoo
and pay attention to history
they encourage us to cheer and boo
and after all these years
with a cappuccino in
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Categories:
costa, addiction, travel, war,
Form: Free verse
At Costa Coffee
Across the room
I fell in sudden love
With the coffee smear
Lightly resting
On her top lip
A sudden love that
Just as quickly
Disappeared when
She wiped it away
With her fingertip
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Categories:
costa, cute love, desire, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Birds of Costa Rica
birds of tropics
spread your wings
with divine grace
and vivid color
come to life
free your gleeful
cries of bounty
in lavish sea of
vibrant greens
closest thing
to paradise
AP: 1st place 2022, Honorable Mention 2020
Posted on October 17, 2020
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Categories:
costa, animal, appreciation, bird, color,
Form: Free verse
The Costa Coffee I Earned To Drink
A stammer has been mine all my days
in recent months therapy again did take
but fear ruled through many a situation
what's to do? zero as it couldn't even shake
Many branches of Costa coffee shops
but always busy queued up made me fear
my tongue would block not able to speak
this my thoughts filled my mind like a spear
I
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Categories:
costa, anxiety, drink, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Costa Lamento
Same old routine, same venue too
We join the queue, I order
Flat white for her with fern motif
Tan crema round the border
For me a capuccino, large
With sifted chocolate powder
Baristas all look younger now
The music slightly louder
We grab our favourite corner seat
Our meal, the usual fare
Two toasties filled with ham and cheese
A Chelsea bun to share
The great
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Categories:
costa, lost love, love, romance,
Form: Light Verse
Dwarf Cloud Forest
Elfin forest,
Hiding in Peru,
Waiting for fog drip
Gnarled trunks,
Lichens, ferns, orchids,
Mossy forest's trolls
Intense tree canopy
Keeping shy mountain gorilla's secrets
Holding raindrops hostage
Perpetual fog,
Adding a mystique
of shadowed magic
Tropical delight
Heavily affected by
Global climate changes
Elfin forest,
Lending her mosses
To lead the way
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Categories:
costa, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Imagism
Costa Rican Sunrise
Costa Rican Sunrise
Written: by Tom Wright
1/16/2014
What Tom sees
At sunrise God’s handiwork is seen
A pied image by the Master’s hand
Into dangling palm branches green
And loitering shadows shielding sand
Soon revealing white capped breakers
So wax your boards get ready to frolic
Surf is rising, are there yet any takers
God’s love through nature is symbolic
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Categories:
costa, god, love, nature,
Form: Lyric
Cattlecoaat Dipolamcy
THEY WERE NOT ADMIRED, THEY WERE HARDLY EVEN LIKED, THEY REFRAMED FROM COMMENT DUE TO THEIR DISPOSITION, ALLOWING
SOMEONE WITH A GREATER DISPOSITION TO BE IN CONTROLL. mONITERING
THEIR ABLITIES WOULD BE EASY AS THESE MEN WERE ADVANCE IN THEIR TRAINING. THEIR WORKS WERE OF THE TEACHINS OF "GEM FULLA" (WORLD FAMOUS SUBMITION GRAPPLER. ONCE KNOW IN
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Categories:
costa, anti bullying, boxing day ,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
2018 Fifa World Cup - Brazil Vs Costa Rica
two stoppage-time goals
the good the bad the Neymar-
Los Ticos homebound
Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "2018 World Cup Senryu" via wattpad.com
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Categories:
costa, emotions, football, international, joy,
Form: Senryu
Costa Rica
Very vibrant green lots of different trees
The quetzal bird sings in the bright morning
Aqua and red feathers fly through the fog
On the beach lay the tracks of a turtle
The sand is hot and soft during mid-day
It starts to rain in the wet green jungle
The strawberry darters hop in the rain
Pick some pineapples they grow
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Categories:
costa, beach, culture,
Form: Sonnet
Categories:
costa, animal, vacation,
Form: Haiku
Vacation In Costa Rica
“I must be out of my mind,” I thought
As I hurled myself into the green abyss
Over the forest canopy the zip-line went
“Never, ever again if I manage to survive this”…
I survived and now must brag a bit
I was as brave as brave could ever be
Just part of our Costa Rican vacation
In a wondrous country I’d
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Categories:
costa, beautiful, tribute, vacation,
Form: Quatrain
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
In Puerto Lemon I met a girl, back then there were
many girls in Puerto Lemon, only she wasn’t of them,
she was the daughter of the harbour master
And she had class. I knew the harbour master well and
it was at his home I met her.
We had dinner, to my dismay it was alcohol-free
so
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Categories:
costa, absence, beauty, humor,
Form: Ballade
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