Ocean Innocence Poems

How long will it take you, poet?
To understand that poetry does not replace love?

To understand, that everyone eventually falls out of their chair?

How long will...

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As sensitive and as fragile 
As a mottled Butterflies tissue paper wings 
As gentle and tender as a teasing caressing arresting summer breeze
As transparent and...

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I wish I could touch the sky,
So high and high and high.
I wish I could capture the moon,
Taut and firm in my room.

I wish I...

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When we were young
we had the world at our feet.
No fear could stop us
and everything was sweet.

We weren't aware
of the good and the bad.
Everything we...

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I am the maker of your fear, says the silver ocean.
like the dessert sun to a scotched frog,
I strike the sand and bury you deep...

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To my Sun, l've become
silent to the screeching 
screams from sirens, 
hiding beneath sapphire seas.
I'm floating like tepid
ripples in wandering waves, 
serenading in songs 
from...

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(Dedicated to Toni Marie Labadie.)

more than a river
more than a lake
even more than the ocean
I cherish a pond...

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"She is brave and strong and broken all at once." — Anna Funder


When spoken, it might seem innocent
Like any word – just a word
Afterall it...

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Curiosity mounts as the crowd gathers on the hill. Curiosity mounts as the banner stood still. The well that fed me from my youth has...

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“The moon’s vision of humanity 
Was something that it once desired  
Tinkle, swoouf, it pondered  
As it’s luminescence gazed at its prodigious oceans...

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Playfulness childlike
causes bliss to spike,
if our heart clings not
to decaying rot.

Embrace and release,
flowing like the breeze;
no rear view mirror,
hence no heart tremor.

Waves of the ocean
cause...

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Let's roll the dice
and we'll begin,
to see what rolls and turns and spins -
an apple, falling from a branch,
a carousel where horses prance,
the ocean when...

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A boy stands at the window, 
showing his sister how to breathe fog onto the glass,
leaving tiny handprints that linger 
and slowly disappear.

Across an ocean,...

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Our love grows,
not within four walls 
but in the lands of glimmering oceans.
I want to live with the comfort of the blazing hot sun on...

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We dream of reason 
A dry season
a setting of the western sun
A dark wraith 
a bold hold of hands-on high
A reason for the gun
A black...

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