Jetties Poems - Poems about Jetties

Juxtaposed Coast

...Fabricated coast, they arranged a brigade
Aggregated to oppose, braving the waves
Saturated stones, awaiting decay
Exaggerated to juxtapose,
The real contained by the fake.

Professing control,...

Rockaway, NY

...Ten mile peninsula in Queens, N.Y.,
nighttime jetties of moonlight white caps,
waves rising and ebbing.
My grandfather walking with me on the
daylight shore so many summers ago.

My dreams of R...

He Writhe

...Not by her eyes did I stop in my tracks
Though they spoke as Celtic forest rings
And glittered as a wyvern's hold.

Not by her voice soft, 
Sweet as a siren entrapping my soul
Resonate as Chris...

Sea Glass and Sand Dunes

...Once again, I've spent my day
drifting among the drifting dunes
staring at colorful bits of ocean-tumbled glass
that shimmer, sparkle
and refract the still-warm October light
in my shaking uncer...

The Hungry Sea

...The waves on the beach are
Gulping, slurping and chewing 
At the sandy shoreline.
The ocean is voracious.
Inch by inch, foot by foot
It eats away our carefully mapped
Continents and islands,
D...

Storm Surge

...Trees laid vertical on their sides uprooted
Jetties once planted in their depths departed                                                                 
Tides moved rocks from their sockets sound...

Odyssey From Africa 12b

...Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 12 The Fireflower (continued, b)

Finally a tired Ipiki
Flew back to his owner Matto
Hanging from his fern-frond necklace 
Starting late his daytime sleeping 
 
Ma...

Odyssey From Africa 11f

...Chapter 11 The Island Kingdom (f, continued...)

Near the north-most cape they passed, there
Lay the kingdom’s foremost city
By the name of Cannabarro
Here was found the royal palace

Of Ptole...

Circumspice 2

...Part 2 - The Great Fire of London, 1666

Just think of a town, put up with no plan, 
where people build houses wherever they can. 
The streets twist and dip, hugging ditches and streams, 
and sa...

The Swashing

...the swashing

the evening we were declared 
WORLD’S HOTTEST CAPITAL

sarah & i seek relief via a cool walk 
between jetties — where an impromptu  

marine superhighway has formed 
— a never ...

To the Authors of Manimekalai - Part One

...Part One

“Apart from its popular conception of transmigration, (which is) sometimes almost humouristic, Manimekhalai offers a documentary contribution of immense value, under an easily accessible fo...

Never Coming Home

...I watched
 As the waves sounded heavily
 Against the old worn jetties
 Hammering at the wall of stone
 That rose up from the beach
 Before fading away
 And once again
 Racing back out to sea
...

Roaming Through Memories

...alone now
I roam through memories
recalling treasures of the past
journeying back to seaside treks with my husband
riding to the city to see Broadway shows
reliving nights of romance
ev...

Billow the Sails!

...Aye and it’d be “Land Ho”, ya lazy landlubbers!
It’s where ya’d be if ya’d had yer druthers,
Braggin’ the seven seas and swiggin’ pints of ale, 
Chasin’ maidens and wishin’ on a mermaid tail!
Loo...

Blind Faith Fosters Understanding

...Still waters rage from the depths of hell.
The fiery furnaces’ forces propel.
No longer shall earth see speedwell or bluebell.
The cleansing fire has begun its deadly smell.

God’s created earth...

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