Ocean Free Verse Poems

A soft breeze whispered
as I stood near a spread
of fields
where my heartfelt story was told.

I recalled the beginning.
The middle was unfolding
and I didn’t know the...

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Swimming under the surface of the Pacific
Past the border of the ocean
Where the two meet, brown and blue.
Met by tiny swimming jewels here,
Living within the...

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Ships sail on the surface between sky and ocean,
water and air.
People toil and play, 
live and die
on the surface between sky and globe,
air and earth.
These...

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They say, “Work harder, hustle more,”
like your value depends on how fast you move,
like success only counts if you're always racing.
But what if the race...

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Liminal-for Michelle


The tide would turn soon.
A liminal moment between coming in, going out.
I wanted to be with it.

The moon full, the bay awash with its...

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Galaxies hang like candles in the sky,
a cuirass for the moon
shining bright and full,
moonlight piercing the inky clouds.
Through it a face traced
with starlight sinks below,
a...

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The wind felt
Catching one off guard
Sometimes refresh
Other times bad and good
The wave backward and forward of trees
The view of the ocean as the waves maneuver
Breezes...

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There is a man with a special fleet
Waiting for you at the corner of the street
He has been waiting there for more than twenty years
With...

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On the day of your party 
Please be sure to invite
The Drunken Clown.

He offers steady humor 
At a pace everyone can measure.
His drinks, give love...

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On a velvet night, when man enters woman,
like a wave kissing the shore with repeated desire,
and the woman opens her mouth like a flower revealing...

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Under the sky that weaves its shadows on the land of forgotten dreams,
I wonder, what is life? A question that rolls through the streets,
Slipping into...

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Mountains made of waves
tore the flesh from Mother Earth —
flayed and flooding.

The mud grieves beneath her,
clogged with stagnant saline.
She used to breathe — rivers ran...

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Once,
the world was stitched in crayons;
lemon yellows, ocean blues,
skies that never ended
and trees that could talk
if you listened hard enough.

I used to run
with arms outstretched,
believing...

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As i bestow my eyes into your darkest sincerest eyes,
I feel calmness overtake my body,
As If I was looking into the night sea where the...

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yes, life is an ocean & i’m staying afloat like oil in water
protecting my soul & living the full potential of my breath & grinding...

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