Sea Idyll (Idyl) Poems

A ribbon of blue snakes through the hills
Carving its path as it meanders along
Rushing and gushing down to the sea
Burbling and gurgling, hear it singing...

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We rest together by the sea
In a bower filled meadow on high,
And he shares musings intimately
While a magical breeze teems nearby
sliding through words through breath’s...

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Huldra 

In the green valley 
Near lake blue and pink salmon 
Lived a huldra 
Beautiful in human eyes 
But trolls had rejected her
Ugly in their...

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Wonder of Spring.

By the roadside, tiny
vibrant, green as the ocean
bushes grow.

I think they are spun by 
the sea breeze
and nourished by April’s sun.

Tomorrow morning 
they...

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What color is it? that luminous llght,
throwing patterns past midnight under my archway,
and on the sandy beach of our island ocean,
where I used to wade...

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The ship is always loaded
With misty looking folks
Who fill the decks and cabins
Wrapped in dreamers’ cloaks

No one lies too far 
Or near the closest sleeper
And...

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The sky seems to be on fire,
Almost supernatural,
Burning magnesium bright.
Almost as if Armageddon is coming;
As if it's already here.

It transfers its brillance to the mountains
Turning...

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I used to make up stories for children
none are left.
Sing babes in arms lullaby's
and goodnight.
Remembering beds of painted flowers
past and new.
Stories for children rhymed for...

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From across the sea.
She inspired me.
I don't know how or why.
Her words, went deep.
And made me cry.

Stirring memories, of the past.
Dreams, that did not last.
Burst...

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I belong to no Party.
Or political wing.
Social, Tory or anything.
My club is me.
I am free.

No woman has me engaged.
No ring or marriage  arranged.
Never been...

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Open the windows.
Open the doors.
Let the glorious sunshine in.
Remove the dust.
From the floors.

Listen, the birds are singing.
A happy, happy tune.
In April, May and June.
Live life...

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I'm looking for a girl.
To sail with me.
To go for a whirl.
Out to sea.

Round the world we go.
She must show.
That she can.
Cook, swim and steer.
Like...

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Twilight falls on slender frame
Against a sea without a name
Ivory pearl smile, tucked in a rhyme
A beauty misplaced among the waves of 
time.

Fearsome, a tremble
cold...

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