Long Beachcombers Poems

Favorite Carolyn Devonshire Poem

History Rising from the Sea

Treasure from the sea
Golden doubloon
Sixteenth century artifact
By ancestors hewn

Earth's history lays buried
Beneath five oceans
As undersea tremors
Create violent commotions

Freeing from Spanish galleons
Precious metals, gemstones,
To greet early beachcombers
History on loan

Memories...

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The Storm 

We stand at the edge of the sea
Where waves rush towards us like snapping dogs
and high above our heads, the seagulls surf the wind for thrills.
Their noisy squawks and calls cannot be ignored,
As...

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A lovely walk, a promenade leads the way
Burnt orange succulents stand like bushes serene
Crushed tepid deep, whitewash stirs up behind the scenes
Delightful blends of blue sky in-between
Entwined the seaweed branching out for a reach
Finely tuned...

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‘Neath the umbrella the sun peeked shyly,
My eyes flickered on the wash of the surf
A seagull in search glanced at me wryly.

A fine day at the beach, earning a smiley
Relaxing on Mother Nature’s sandy turf,
‘Neath...

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~South Florida~
(Free  Flow ) 


The temperature is rising 

We're in the hottest days of summer 

Heat and humidity in the air are soaring 

Sometimes for days the rains are just pouring 


This is summer...

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Peach-pinched beachcombers
enter the scene
with sugary-sun splashes,
darkened sunglasses.
Beautiful Bahamas
with pink sand beaches
and the gully wash
that ebbs and flows, sweetens
her veins with serendipitous warmth,
tantalizes his bushwacker brain.
Foraminifera of her cheeks,
her wet towel beneath.
Horseshoe bay smiles,
waves them in
with...

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Oceans harbor many mysteries, some say too much.
Wave ends reach out to powdery sands, gentle foamy touch.
Beachcombers muse the seventh is always the largest wave,
Believing science isn't certain, it's only for the brave.
The universe teaches...

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Treasure from the sea
Golden doubloon
Sixteenth Century artifact
By ancestors hewn

Earth’s history lays buried
Beneath five oceans
As undersea tremors
Create violent commotions

Freeing from Spanish galleons
Precious metals, gemstones
To greet early beachcombers
History on loan

Memories of bygone ages
Scattered on the sand
Finally kissed...

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Moon brightens 
Crystalline sand of fine glass
Glowing jade under light of cosmos 
My body like driftwood 
Unnoticed by beachcombers 
Searching for that blush 
The rosey wine stones
Coveted by the stars
Star shine, moonbeams
Ever glancing down
At my...

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Spring passed
here is Summer
at last, not her last

lasting grief, summer’s relief
cool waters flow
seasons surpass

dictates of time
as we tread water
especially her spouse

he finds slight smile
in a bottle, birds
nibbling seeds

his kids calling
on him, expecting
not too much

he is...

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Look at you , my young brother so alive
like a sea-god with feet curling on waves,
the reef drenching our  boxers of summer
with impish eyes grinning till noon cracks.
I have a best buddy gentle as...

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animal control in the form of two men were shutting down the beach
There was a cougar watching from a giant rock, they wanted people safe
Many of the beachcombers ran toward the rock with cell phones
Wanting...

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I’m soaring through a sunset – violet
as sun drips into water cobalt blue.
How peaceful is this twilight time. I let
my eyes take in the total gorgeous view.

My mates fly with me. Beachcombers we spy!
We squawk...

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The sound of the breakers
As they hit the shore
Bringing gifts to the sands
As youngsters explore

Coloured shells
Smoothed stones
The wanting
Beach-comb

Driftwood shapes
Crafted on the wave
Some drift forever
While some are saved

But this bearer of gifts
Can deal a different hand
As...

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