Sea Ebb Poems

How vast and pervasive is the Moon?
Hugeness hints there stand two
Orbs and a turbulent stream
Simply like the dawning sun
All over the half-moon horizon.

On the shore...

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Down by the sea
Soft waves call to me
They motion my emotions
forever calls to be free
I float with contentment
Abated from fear
They complete my resentment
With nothing to...

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The hungry mouth of misery swallowed me.
In sorrow I walked the edge of a cerulean sea.
Along its shoreline, my wistful eyes have wept.
Tears fell on...

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waves flow to the shore
tide rises
sea shells on the sand


a briny sea
undulates in rhythmic waving motion
slowly ebbing away


October 18, 2021
Lune (Mixed Pair) Contest
Sponsor: William Kekaula...

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Moments, once held, vanished like spider webs.
Whispers held captive, like tides, too soon ebb.

September 24, 2021
L Milton Hankins
"Your Best Rhyming Couplet" contest
6th Place!...

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The ocean has her romance with the shore,
cavorting with its borders, day and night-
sometimes courageously extending more
than ever, thrashing out in wild delight-

beyond her limits,...

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Massive, gray, these leaden waves
bear their unchanging burden—
the sameness of each day to day

while the wind seems to struggle to say
something half-submerged planks at the...

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The seawater rushes inland at the height of the tides.
It is the lateness of the day the moon begin its rise.
Morning sun takes out the...

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WOW Do I Love Thee
(with apologies to EBB)


Steady girl, let us dare not partake
of a sunsets blushing kiss unfelt
the winds of change cruel fate has...

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Bubbling torrent 
foams and spits at the future 
verbal battery

drowning in a sea of words
would you please, please just shut up!...

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THE EBB AND FLOW OF REFUGEES (Satis Shroff)



The waves shimmer like silvery fishes,

The sand is bleached by the moonlight,

As you walk holding hands,

Barefeet along the...

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The sun sets in tranquility and surrendered silence,
Majestic in all its beauty and magnificence.

The moon comes dutifully ushering the ebony gray,
Unfolding the usual repose of...

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love reaches its crescendo
then gently slips away

your spirit follows me
through darkness and light

I see your reflection in tranquil waters
your tender touch carries on sea breezes
scent...

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Thoughts roll around inside my head
forever churning and turning
like a compost pile for a garden's spread


I miss so many things about writing
those things now long...

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As I walk along the sandy shore
And watch the waves go to and fro
 To  then return and go no more
Yet come again and...

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