Long Terns Poems
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Covid Walk
thermometer reads zero, a chilly breeze blows
apple cores thrown, the blackbirds feed
my multi-layered partner dons her wooly hat
impatiently, she waits for me
securing covid masks amidst my overcoat
...
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Categories:
terns, anxiety, feelings, humanity, journey, life,
Form:
Verse
Where the Ocean Meets the Mountain
You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing
I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer
I have ever known how to...
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Categories:
terns, assonance, love, metaphor, mountains, ocean, woman,
Form:
Lyric
Castles In the Sand
Picture a man’s solitary stroll on a sandy seaside,
Early time of day, just a short time after low tide,
Water almost calm, gentle waves lapping the shore,
Early morning sun brilliantly blazing the horizon.
Feel the wonderful breeze…smell...
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Categories:
terns, beach, child, cry, metaphor, sea, water,
Form:
Narrative
sea song -
oh precious, dulcet diva, ocean-tide
you, of sand and foam and spindrift -
all your moods and meanderings
speak deep my spirit, wistful and wan
musings captured, gist enraptured …
I listen, close...
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Categories:
terns, analogy, appreciation, beach, imagery, life, metaphor, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Llareggub
I live in Arrubluc by the sea
much like the fabled Llareggub
made famous by Dylan Thomas
in the radio play 'Under Milk Wood'.
The land meets the sea here as well,
but it's a beachside town, beside the sea,
not...
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Categories:
terns, beach, poetry, poets, sound,
Form:
Rhyme
8400 Miles Nonstop
The bar-tailed godwit
caught birddom by surprise
When word got out
just how far this bird flies
A juvenile Limosa lapponica,
satellite tag 2-3-4-6-8-4
flew nonstop from Alaska
to the Tasmanian shore!
13,560 kilometers nonstop,
eleven days and nights
A new world record for
marathon bird...
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Categories:
terns, bird, flying, world,
Form:
Light Verse
I Wander These Winter Beaches
i wander these winter beaches
where autumn's storms
have removed the footfalls of summer
believing in spring
here i am alone listening
to the waves mellifluously remind
yet never recalling
floating the river Lethe
alone where the frigates soar above
pelicans traversing the...
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Categories:
terns, solitude, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Sailing on the Bay, a Living Poem
On the bay the wind is scurrying
along its flock of waves,
with white crests honey combed,
to flip over their edges,
on blue foreheads.
The bow of the yacht slices
through the waves driven by the wind
in the...
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Categories:
terns, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Paradise Island
The kids are gone! I'm retired! I'm gonna take a long vacation!
To an island with sunny beaches - that's my ultimate destination!
I'll spend the days savorin' a climate of seventy-two degrees,
Snoozin' beneath the palms,...
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Categories:
terns, dream, fantasy, funny, me, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Paradise Isle
The kids are gone, I'm retired, I'm taking a long vacation,
To an island with sunny beaches - that's my destination!
I'll spend the days savoring a climate of seventy-two degrees,
Snoozing beneath the palms, fanned by an...
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Categories:
terns, funny, romance, me, me,
Form:
Rhyme
I Drank from an Hourglass
It has long ceased to rain here.
The embers of drought are fanned by the merciless
Hands of hell.
The air is stifling,
The heat insufferable.
I cringe from a long wait on a queue in the narrow
Trench at a...
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Categories:
terns, allusion, community, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Paradise Island Dream
The kids are gone, I'm retired, I'm takin' a long vacation,
To Paradise Island with sunny beaches, that's my destination!
I'll spend the days savorin' a climate of seventy-two degrees,
Snoozin' 'neath the palms, cooled by the ocean...
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Categories:
terns, beach, dream, humorous, vacation,
Form:
Rhyme
Is It the Ebson Salt
Is it Epson Salt?
All those nice villas along the coast are empty save for stray cats and those too poor to live inland because the sea stinks like bouillabaisse gone off. Marine life and sea...
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Categories:
terns, character, christian, city, columbus day,
Form:
Blank verse
epson salt
Is it Epson Salt?
All those nice villas along the coast are empty save for stray cats
and those too poor to live inland because the sea stinks like
bouillabaisse gone off. Marine life and sea plants have...
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Categories:
terns, adventure, anger, baptism,
Form:
Blank verse
For the Birds
Birds have always captured my imagination,
They have such a beauty and a unique nature;
Oh, what an array of birds for my inspection,
I write this for the birds...
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Categories:
terns, bird,
Form:
Pantoum
The Gravity of Whom and When
I learned to smile with grit in my teeth,
as I watched the waves, come in, and go out.
They made a hollow in the sand,
left behind when the tide rushed out.
For whom is this...
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Categories:
terns, beach,
Form:
Free verse
I Understand the Animals Now, Frank O'Hara
I'd almost forgotten what we were like
so many thens, so many "do ya remembers" ago
the days fat with warm summer
dripping off golden smiles
melting like wax in the sun
it was all just a race against...
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Categories:
terns, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Early Morning In Walvis Bay
Hand in hand with the breaking pink light of dawn,
A light east breeze dances on tiptoes upon the water’s surface.
I stand on the wooden deck, looking out onto the quiet bay,
Scattered boats gently...
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Categories:
terns, places, sea, light, bird, bird, light,
Form:
I do not know?
I Am Not As Innocent As the Small Bird Who Sits On Her Nest On the Ground
Next to where I work where they make electric cars
Where they used to make gasoline powered cars and trucks
near where groves and groves of orchards once grew
The small birds now nestle their young like penguins
in...
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Categories:
terns, adventure,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Well At Last I See God's Light
Well at long last I see God's light!
Shinning down upon me from a distance
And I can freely behold the Son of Man
Walking towards me with me holding a
A purest golden candlestick On His
Solid golden lamp-stand!
And...
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Categories:
terns, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
thank you O sea
Thank you O sea,
For the untiring music of your waves,
For the rolling of your rollers,
Thank you O sea
for your music so refined,
This music softens the soul,
His sight soothes the poet
Console the painter ,
Thank you O...
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Categories:
terns, cheer up, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
The Gulf Oil Spill Tragedy
Nature consists of balances ever so delicate
Eco systems and life hanging on the edge
Man oversteps boundaries in his desire to develop it
Leaving death and destruction in the wake of his dredge.
From deep underneath waters supporting...
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Categories:
terns, angst, history, nature, recovery from...life,
Form:
Quatrain
That Summer On the Lake
Finally, as afternoon sun splayed
through the picture window
onto wood floor and last pieces of furniture,
I packed that summer on the lake
into a box, mitering indigo corners
between squares of bubble wrap,
ripples appliqued with lilac jacaranda...
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Categories:
terns, color, imagery, nostalgia, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Observing the Tide
I am captivated by the ever-rushing tide
Small, distant tsunamis raping the beach,
Granting the tiny sand crabs a free ride
From way beyond the frothing surf’s reach
Causing the terns to flutter and screech.
They tell me it ebbs...
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Categories:
terns, beach, ocean, perspective,
Form:
Quintain (English)
White Terns
Come fly with me
said she
One good tern
deserves
another
And did I so yearn
with her to share
the air
Up we soared
and down we roared
between the sea's deep blue
and sky's paler hue
Between the waves’ white spray
and clouds high away
As...
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Categories:
terns, bird,
Form:
Free verse