Ocean Metaphor Poems

Mountains made of waves
tore the flesh from Mother Earth —
flayed and flooding.

The mud grieves beneath her,
clogged with stagnant saline.
She used to breathe — rivers ran...

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Once,
the world was stitched in crayons;
lemon yellows, ocean blues,
skies that never ended
and trees that could talk
if you listened hard enough.

I used to run
with arms outstretched,
believing...

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At the end of the sea and start of the sand
there lies a place; a place where we stand
and watch the sea go from shore...

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As you open that door…
you don’t know that there is 
an ocean behind it 


If you had to choose between feeling nothing and feeling everything,...

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Hopelessness encloses, engulfing me,  
As another dismal night drifts in—  
Where the only light is the afterglow of the midnight sun.  
I...

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Drone

little specs down below
watch them scurry to and fro
streams of white and red 
filling an ocean at my behest

with broken backs and crooked limbs
their hurried...

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Yesterday, you were two,
Today, you've become one;
A single string, knotted
Into a bow of eternal love:-

As trials and tribulations
test and tease your string,
The tighter the boe-knot
Must...

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(Apropos Of You And Yours)


       Yesterday you were two;

        today you’ve become...

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    Updraft lifts limbs, leaves scurry like mice exposed
    Mother Nature shakes shorebreak, incline imposed
    Gnaws...

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Let the joy that flows in the gate of affection
Flood your world like an ocean
And water your desert with a unique bloom....

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Mind of the heart

Neither thinking 
nor feeling
~ Void ~

Soul penetrates...

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You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing  
   I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer...

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In the composing

of every liberated poet

of poetic justice,

every pen is a freestyle

composition

irrespective of structural

rendering

of the divine birth-wording

that has been given

from the supreme

conductor’s wand’s

 instructions

as to...

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I watched as you lay there. 

Unbothered as the ocean reached for you,

Kissed your skin,
Held your hair,
Soothed your thoughts.

Your eyes were the color of sea...

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