Long Seafloor Poems

UndefeaTed.  A Boxing Lesson.

A friend, off the Vineyard,
wrighted a ship.
And, perhaps himself,
and certainly the worlds ‘round him.
His words were fashioned, shipshape and watertight
as were the splines and bungholes and rudder pins and
All the Things...

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You bite that apple!
Give it a go, put on a show
There is no shame
You said shame is a sham
And clams are happy
Do they hop or skip?
Tripping along the seafloor
Playing hopscotch
Eating numbers like cookies
Chips Ahoy!
Sleeve after...

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I returned home after forty years to my home island of Hawaii. Its preferred nickname is the Big Island, lovingly a.k.a., the Orchid Isle, and yes, a.k.a., the Volcanic Island. Rightly named as the sole...

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Emotions of incompatible severance ebb my spirits
Taking me into a world that no one has ever been
Upon nights of deplorable torment I see the unseen
Darkness wills me over and tears my heart away
As I feel...

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When I am one in two 
I hesitate 
To let my thoughts withdraw,
For in the safety of that zone
I trust my friend who hears my voice alone.
She may not finish my unsaid words, 
Though sometimes...

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What did I do today!
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

I looked on the Facebook BBC News.
As that’s where I express my views.
As it does say, ‘write a comment,’...

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Coral life forms in copious swarms
feast in the Cambrian chyme,
dividing their cells and forming their shells
to end on the seafloor as lime.
Tectonic churning and magma upturning
renders marble whiter than bone.
The marble is mined, but the...

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-3/7/14 and 5/2/14-
The waves of the sea and the screeching of the seagulls 
Mix together like coffee and cream
I feel like I’m livin’ a dream
I walk barefoot on the warm, warm sand
I don’t really understand
Why...

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I stand, facing the roaring deep
 I stand, and get jolted from my petrified sleep
 A most wonderful sight
 A most phenomenal sight

 Waves, unleashing their fury
 Waves, battling, wild and free
 Waves, tainted with...

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Spoke to a cloud today – 
the usual conversation
about shape and size, 

lows and highs...whether
my need to tote a handy, spring
loaded umbrella...or a better chance
to go without pants, dance
on the beach ~ showing off
thighs, widening...

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Rocking boat with the motion of the ocean,
My ocean, Unsettling Ocean, but the boat
Does not rock by way of the waves, it rocks
Because the occupants have nothing to do
Other than tilt the boat from side...

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Written: November 19, 2023
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I must plunge into the seafloor. 
Out into the abyss of water and starry sky.
I utterly crave a lofty...

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Floating adrift, my body is a bouyant blunder,
An effervescent shell as I transpire from it in evaporation.
I fail to condensate and descend back under,
Unbound by gravity's grip of precipitation.

My corpus is strapped to the seafloor;
I...

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MERMAN-MERMAID

                          Life started in Sea with water-borne cell.
  ...

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9/15/16


Across the lands and shores

Plants and spores

So much life in different shapes and forms

Many storms cold or warm



Always been an omnivore

So I eat vegetables like corn

And meats like albacore and boar

I don't care about the...

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We should be as thick as water-we should 
wait;

The half-life of the carbon in the waste product of the mollusk on the seafloor is
35913.78 turns of SOL(ace).

We should be like water we should stiffen ourselves...

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You be the sea
I’ll be the stone
Waiting and waiting
On your seashore
To eternity and beyond
Miracles happen
Miracles happen

Miracles always
Happen!

You be the wave
I’ll be your wind
Caring and caring
Your waves i’the sand
To eternity and beyond
Miracles happen
Miracles happen

Miracles always
Happen!

You be...

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BASS  ROCK  NEAR  EDINBURGH

My child’s eye saw the graceful sea
A limitless ocean of waves
Of power  immeasurable
Adapted only to the curve of horizon
Free to move at will around the globe
Accommodating no man
God...

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A mind as universe 
Universe down right now,
Stars as thoughts and im thinking supernovas 
Planets and ideas
Earth as my ideal, idea
Sun to the moon whoa!
Black holes and potholes  
To straight roads, the freeways
The cosmic...

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Burying dead bodies usually takes place  
In fancy holes dug on some land space.

Most people dig those holes somewhere nice
But sometimes they don’t have a choice.

Some people burn dead bodies to ashes
And this really...

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The Sea Rolls and Rules 

Ragged, slategrey skies
Gulls brave the battery of winds
Mariners pensive in storm-tossed ships
Cut through the waves with billowed sails.

In the sanctity of the ocean's deep
The most ancient things of this world...

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Into the evanescing night
Floats hope, now restrained to a dream
Within the edges which incite
Tales clinging unto the extreme :
Russet of summer, ebb of tide
Blows whispers as rainstorm nears
Its  last heaving when moons provide,
A bright...

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Standing on a crag
Frozen against the storm
Wrap another layer on
Rain biting through me

Throwing coins to the waves
Trading hope for affection
Thunder without lightning
Blind on wet rocks

You pull up alongside me
Drawing back the clouds
Peeling off the wet...

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I have denied the ocean's roar.
Still, I wait for you by the shore.
Two worlds connected by heartstrings.
Is this truly what patience brings?
My insight and logic at war.

I left but I cannot ignore.
You cannot wilt on...

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Image of Tsunami Riptide Natural Disaster provided by Pixabay.

Boxing Day 2004
Poetic Form: Rhyme

Half the world sleeps, the rest are unease
when the Indonesian seafloor fell
as jolt ... Richter 9 plus few degrees
collapsed structures that chimes the...

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