Island Poems | Examples

Premium Member Fantasy Island

Green-eyed emotion erupts from warm emerald eyes

A viscous volcano erupts in my haggard heart 

It's magma-traction under bright azure skies

Let's charter a dream and an island we'll chart


We'll sail soft waves South, on specific breezes

While the stars and the moon dangles their art

On sea's lofty breezes, the Pacific teases

To an island where all of my fantasies start


My green-eyed wondrous wonder, where wonders await

Igniting my wanton wishlist, scorching my eyes

My volcano erupts, and our flames soon relate

Then Heaven's gate opens, revealing my prize


I'm on an Island, in Heaven, with a Queen

Warm breeze, and these coral seas, speckle my view

And those same magma-scopic eyes of lush green

Sparkled all my fantasies and dreams that came true

Premium Member Island Hopping

Welcome to Jamaica, Maan! Bounty by the Seas!

The land of sand and dreams neath swaying trees,

Where you'll be gently rubbed with warm fragrant oils,

And sip fruity umbrella drinks in the cool breeze!

Later, when the sun winks and blows a kiss from Mars,

Some more umbrella drinks and Green Cigars!

During what Jamaicans call...Magic Hour! Maan!

We'll dance and sing, between the sea and stars!

Oh yes, my friend! Here, the tunes will make you swoon!

Neath sunlight fair, open air, or crescent moon!

I'd like to say, if you've got time to get away, Maan,

Then, I hope we'll be seeing you today, Maan!

Clocking Out

About to procrastinate
am putting it off
setting it aside
it's never too late
it can wait
as
now is the hour
no time
like the present
nothing important
I can't circumvent
didn't wind the clock
gave my watch away
don't need to know
what week it is
nor hour of the day
nowhere I have to be
no one's expecting me
from this moment on
no long hard climb
just eating drinking wining dining
I'm living on island time


Island of weak faith

Break down my walls of confusion,
I'll struggle through these webs of doubt.
Give me a place to go,
I'm exhausted wandering on this island of a weak faith.
--BlossomMonyei--

S-O-S

Am I on an island launching bottles out to sea
beached at the waterline will someone rescue me
I'm drowning not waving as the boats go by
abandoned at high tide does anyone hear my cry
here am I sad to say writing messages in the sand
marooned a lonely castaway will somebody lend a hand
if I'm on an island will my ship come in
or has it run aground did it go down
with only thoughts of you to keep me alive
when will my ship ever arrive
here on an island sending signals from the shore
stranded high and dry will no one hear my call
found my freedom a big mistake I made
there's not another living soul around
loneliness the price I paid
and my tears are the only sound
if only my time I could rewind
but am I really on a deserted island
or is it only in my mind

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1850-1894

In an old-time real-book-with-pages feel in his day,
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote 'Treasure Island',
in his own inimitable way,
and tho' I know I may be wrong,
he could not have been pulling Long John Silver's leg,
as John would not have had a leg to stand on,
for, with his crutch (plus parrot), and I quote,
'He had still a foot in either camp.'
is that which, in 1883, Stevenson of Silver wrote.
Was it black (spot) humour to write of Long John so,
as I dearly need to know, 
and it clearly goes to show,
we need much more input,
with that said, putting my best one forward,
it begs the question, 'What's afoot?'


Question Of The Ages

Why did the chicken cross Abbey Road?
Because it was there,
but which came first?
Obviously, not the egg,
as it has no legs.
The first chicken to cross the road,
feeling peckish,
not one to throw in the towel,
when told, 'Walk, don't run a fowl,'
and, faster than a speeding pullet,
or so it is said,
was one giant leap for poultry,
one small step
for a Rhode Island Red.
But, by the look on the freckled face
of the old speckled hen,
arriving alive on the other side,
her tranquility was not expanded,
when she heard the words announced,
'The Eagle has landed!'

Premium Member Indispersed Echoes

my psychic energy 
[contained]
like a Matryoshka doll—
chafing for release … to see the light 
beyond mere existence

to flow freely
         unbound
              by constraints

the Victoria Island of Life: 
                                                                         an island in a lake
                                                                       on an island in a lake
                                                                             on an island

soaring over the pitfalls of Life
          gaining speed with the taste of   f  r  e  e  d  o  m —

                                                                        indispersed echoes
                                                                   r    i    p    p    l    i    n    g 
within silence …

Thank God, It's Friday

I'm on an island
marooned
a lonely castaway
beached at the waterline
launching bottles out to sea
abandoned
high and dry
my boat went down
it ran aground
but wait
what's that I see
can it be
a footprint in the sand
someone to lend a hand
my ship's come in
it's at the quay
no more sending signals
from the shore
the weekend's here
to rescue me

Insomniac Island

This entropy, it's endless.
I'm captive in your void of sleep.
My eyes are strung open,
My hands clung to you
But I'm drifting off,
I'm drifting far away,
Away from here, and as hard as I grasp onto you,
I know I won't be back.

Every time it happens.
I can't think straight,
I am so far off,
And if I can't be me,
I can't even stand to be you.
Dormant. Defenceless.
So I hold you by your neck and scream, but
It won't come through.
It never comes through.
And how could it if I can't freaking move?
And how could it if you never wanted a defence

While I'm thrashing and crying
And my throat is burning
With all the hatred,
For every time this happens,
For every night you betray me.
Repeating.
You always take the bait.
We always lay dead in the trap.

And you're leaving me.
You're bleeding out.
Like that, gone for good, without a last chance to bid farewell.
And I can't help but think that,
I'll either live without you
Or die without you
And I can never think what's worse.
So if you can't even see this...
If I can't just breathe with this...
If I don't just kill myself first...

Premium Member Island

stranded and stuck 
           in a 
 solitary Island,
  I see 
        the shimmering
 shades of sapphire
           and 
              nothing 
                      else.

Premium Member Island

Miles of beautiful sandy beaches with
    stunning ocean views …
The Seawall that includes the longest
    continuous sidewalk …

Premium Member Island

Island

Soft sand beaches touch the rolling aqua waves
Dense grove of coconut palms reach for the sky

Premium Member Island

Miniature Edens. Regularly insular
but small hopes can't be
everything in poverty.
Big brains flee from atrophy.

Premium Member - Island -

                                          Earthquake almost
                                              swallowed an
                                                  island ...
                                                I caught it
                                          with my fishing rod 
                                             Huge gratitude 
                                             and merriment
                                                 unfolded

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