Beach Language Poems

Word bank: Holidays
As I am finding time difficult to manage at the moment - I thought a word bank would be a good idea for...

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the wave of the sea
 acting as voluptuous tongue
 caresses the bare sand...

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Words flow through high and low tides
my quiet  inner thoughts , I can now feel.
A capricious heart with dreams printed 
in melange of ...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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I’ve seen the stars dance
And played in the lake. 
I’ve gone to the beach and studied her waves. 
And I’ve read one hundred books,
And I...

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"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
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The Goldfish Bowl


Once injected with water, sorrow becomes colorless and tasteless
Inside the glass bowl, all lives
only live seven seconds

The same route, again and again --
The...

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At the station Paton stares at me from the train bound for Johannesburg
He leaves a note to remember to mop up where the roof leaks
This...

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Every day I wait for you to return from work
And it becomes a celebration in my life.
As the hours pass and the time approaches 
For...

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Sea
Sanguine
Surprises
Australians.
A rare phenomena caused by algae


(This actually happened on Bondi Beach in 2012 when the water turned scarlet)
Contest: language of water
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Jan Allison
Tasman sea...

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Born American, sixth generation of great-grands all German,
not much liking sausage or sauerkraut, English speaking all the way,

except the Germany of my ancestry was fought...

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