Ocean Free Verse Poems

Into the shadow of me is where I lie
Always searching for the light
I am the darkness that radiates 
Come hell or high water I find...

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Something is happening
l can breathe 
l can breathe under water
and it's perfumed
and its blue
something happened
and he said it was you
and he said he can breathe...

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Stun me.
Rewind your music.
Tap your feet to the sound that stirs you.
Listen—
the cuckoo clock is counting seconds back.
Brush the cobwebs from your eyes.
Reignite.

Slip into your...

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There must be 
an entry point
somewhere in the fabric 
of being, perhaps 
an unhealed 
wound in the bark 
of an ancient tree 
deep in a...

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In the eternal night, where stars weep tears of dimmed light,
I lose myself in thoughts flowing like an underground river, unseen, aimless,
Reflecting the shadows of...

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In the depths of my heart, cold winds of unrest whisper,
Words that can never be written on pages of dreams,
In the silence between us hides...

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There they sit
Unmoved, stilled
Yet fully filled
With recorded words
A journey of sorrow, grief
Great loss...my proverbial cross
Proof that I was me

I can't bear to open
The plastic lid
Peer...

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I close my eyes
savouring the memory
of the clash of waves
and rhythmic sway
that rocked my childhood...

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Plants, probing growth
Trees, tall and widespread
Shrubs, simply surprising
Herbs, healing wounds

Land, multiple in variety
Hill, high with rare plants
Mountain, with its ranges
Valley, vary near rivers

Water varies variously
In...

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2024.07.29, about a year ago,
Without BB, I visited the 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road.
Months before that he promised me,
We would travel wherever I...

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Blinded by the love l had inside
My heart has been taken for granted
I showed up for them, but no one showed up for me
I hid...

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COME TO THE WATERS
"Come all you who are thirsty, come to the waters..."Isaiah 55:15
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Childhood home woven with integrity,  
     parents...

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When I walk bare feet along the ocean beach,
The waves come rushing to greet me,
They play hide and seek with my feet,
And challenge me to...

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Read to the ocean 
               when alone -
   ...

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Everyone hates my poetry

Because it doesn’t wear makeup.

Because it stares too long,

or not long enough.

Because it mentions the body

like a room that remembers

every man who...

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