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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,......

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Categories: jetties, environment, extended metaphor, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: jetties, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse



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......

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Categories: jetties, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: jetties, beach, change, introspection, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: jetties, extended metaphor, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse



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

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Categories: jetties, dark, nature, storm,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: jetties, adventure, africa, animal, history,
Form: Narrative
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......

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Categories: jetties, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
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......

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Categories: jetties, history,
Form: Rhyme
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 ......

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Categories: jetties, beach, beauty, ocean, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: jetties, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
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 ......

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Categories: jetties, life, love, old, day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: jetties, introspection, nostalgia
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: jetties, fantasy
Form: Light Verse
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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Categories: jetties, angst, faith, natural disastersfire,
Form: Rhyme

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