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Foreshore Poems - Poems about Foreshore

Gone Fishing
... Despairing seafaring..can be Lore of days of yore Glories or gory Bold stories told Foreshore folklore Hemingway’s…Old Man and the Sea Smiles..feeling chipper Like a wee......

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Categories: foreshore, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Winter's Day in Williamstown
... A cold wind has the breath of Antarctica coming up from the south. Snow is falling in the Alps. Small boats huddle in the sheltered corners of the Bay as I make my way towards the foreshore ......

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Categories: foreshore, joy, wind, winter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Natures Simple Pleasure
... I stand on the foreshore Warm sun touches my face Cool water laps at my bare feet In that moment pure pleasure l embrace......

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Categories: foreshore, appreciation, joy, nature, simple,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member beach bones
... not a bone to pick on beach walks with my lover just pleasure and leisure strolls in the sand of time and togetherness joined at the hips of mind body and soul sizzling fingertips and footste......

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Categories: foreshore, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From Here
... From here I can see the morning ferry pull out from the wharf trailing its long tail of noisy seagulls, a churning wake catching the sunlight before healing to a calm. I too would like to......

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Categories: foreshore, spiritual, trust,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Into the Ultramarine
... "Into the Ultramarine" barefoot along the path down to the beach the memories follow me like seagulls either side the honour guard of scarlet coastal banksia and the s......

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Categories: foreshore, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Performance
... The morning waited for me to take my seat on the foreshore bench to begin its play, perform the piece it had scripted just for me. Opening with a prelude of waves lifting until gravity co......

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Categories: foreshore, beach, love, morning,
Form: Free verse
Leaf
...Leaf It wasn’t the time to leave, but stem chewed and gale combined and the leaf fell. Hairstreak, full green not yet ready, not curled by summer’s end, crisped by West Coast salt, mottled by f......

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Categories: foreshore, environment, loss, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All That I Have Taken In
...At day's end, I take in the last light seeping into the dark waters across the bay and keep it here. I gather the sound of departing gulls smudged on the sky, the quietening settle of birds in t......

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Categories: foreshore, eve, nature, spiritual, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Foreshore Melody By Er Haider Khan
...A butterfly's flight, Lost in the foreshore of the night; With tears in her eyes, She hung from the trees and cried. Her gaze met mine, And in that moment, we intertwined; With the moonlight ......

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Categories: foreshore, emotions, fate, flower, for
Form: ABC
For My Father
...When I think of my father my heart starts beating in time with his 7 A.M. footsteps on hardwood floors. His image rests in the second chamber of my heart. If I could shrink you down and put y......

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Categories: foreshore, love, parents,
Form: Free verse
Sunset Scene
...Setting sun carved a path over the Humber From Hessle right across the river bend To join the banks at Ferriby Foreshore Where that path came to its end. The great smelter chimney Rising there d......

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Categories: foreshore, memory, river, sunset, water,
Form: Rhyme
To the Mannered
...Worn out platitudes have we come this far ?, returning all possessed souls and in the midst he slayed summer in a spectral wooden cupboard with worn shoes, and now the lesson is over by touc......

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Categories: foreshore, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Ladder Bay
...I come to this little cove often - no work, I have time to burn. See Asians plunder its foreshore, I still fish - show no concern. Red-bill seagulls fly in circles, fight over scraps th......

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Categories: foreshore, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Opal Apex
...Sun strike horizon white triangle Erases deep turquoise in thin ice Steady spiral turn winds triumph Explores sea bed, drilled precise Turned ground pleads for mercy Surrenders dug out cry of......

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Categories: foreshore, allusion, betrayal, desire, lust,
Form: Rhyme

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