Ocean Imagery Poems

They hang like a beaded curtain
in a fortune teller’s parlor,
each buoy a bauble 
from the sea’s own trove—
sun-faded, 
barnacle-bitten, 
unstrung from nets 
that once strained...

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Bonnie Brown was in love with Charles, like black pearl clings to night,
So young and engaged to be married, like myriad stars, shining white.

They were...

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I sat there for what seemed an eternity.
I lost myself in an ocean of orange and red.
How poignant, Staring off into the remnants of
yesterday. how...

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The rustling of leaves interplays with the ocean breeze,
as traces of moonlight escape through blackout curtains hanging from steel rods.
Bolts of illumination highlight stacks of...

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Im hearing voices in my head,
all muffled is the sound 
Can't make out the words they've said,
Yet I'm surely set to drown.

Plug my ears to...

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iced ultramarine 
glaciers bob in artic ~ 
prehistoric seas
...

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amidst midnight zone
   bioluminescence lights 
 indigo black seas...

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for : Choose a line 2
Sponsor : Joseph May
prompt: “The darkened sky stole my tears”
submission date :  27/5/25
Placed : 4th : multiple 

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My drinks enticing and sweet
On a chair in the middle of the street
My little floaters been dinged
Roiling waves the edges singed
The wood alive with roiling...

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  .         gulls glide, their grey wings glinting
 .   .    ...

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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

Star-speckled galaxies nestled in indigo stratospheres transform
Into a plethora of pastel hues, painting the canva...

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The picture changes to a serene painting of the sea
Then the evening clouds of late autumn by the ocean
There's a crystal blue lake followed by...

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The sea remembers all it cannot keep,
Each wave a story, crashing into shore,
Its secrets held in silence, buried deep.
A sailor's prayer, a widow’s dreamless sleep,
The...

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Our blue orb's oceans
As deep as the very height
Of spherical sky....

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