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Ocean Poems | Examples of Ocean Poetry

Ocean Poems - Examples of all types of ocean poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for ocean.
Premium Member Charleston Merman
We were vacationing in the state of palm trees and seashore in September's mild loveliness. Me, a sexagenarian widow, hobbled by arthritis in my knees. As my family enjoyed the surf, I sat contented on a creaking wooden pier, taking in the...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member By the sea I can see
The beauty of nature one sand granule at a time being carried from one unknown place to another to be lost within the depths of the tides clinging to its home on the shores by...Read the rest...
Categories: nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Homer translations
Homer translations Surrender to sleep at last! What an ordeal, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michael R. Burch Passage home? Impossible!...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, death, father son, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member sailor's warning
sailor red sunrise warm rays tame wild sea ripples ~ nautical warning...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, storm, sun,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member musical nature
clouds clap coastline cups spring sings through flute flowers drums of daylight dance March 30th 2022 ...Read the rest...
Categories: blue, color, flower, ocean,
Form: Haiku



Forgotten field of forever
Even diamond became dust When touched your skin crust If beauty was beyond money The world belong to you my honey She says your poetry warm winters such As lamp in my heart darkness sprinkles light when I kiss...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, beautiful, feelings, first love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beached
At the watermark the line is drawn, there, the sharp cool clearness of a torquoise mirror marines me, while I bend to pick up Chinamen's fingernails with the blinding Sun on my back, I consider my life, it has gone...Read the rest...
Categories: muse, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Will Last Forever
What Will Last Forever? I stand on the sandy shore alone, as the sun wakes up the dark skies Yawning a salty breeze against my face flushing pink,and blinking sleepy eyes The seagulls squawk their blaring alarm To be...Read the rest...
Categories: bible, introspection, ocean, prayer,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Ocean's moonlit night
On cool night do I contemplate, in awe filled wonder under starlight, with crescent moon reflecting ocean's waves. And oh to hear the sound of them! Rushing, gushing, lapping upon the shore. Knowing in God all things are - beauty, one...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, appreciation, beach, beautiful, creation,
Form: Free verse
Waves
The crashing of waves... white foam and rocky shoreline... a salve for my soul....Read the rest...
Categories: ocean,
Form: Haiku
Serenity
Rich and unrelenting are you You who has captured me so Always changing never ending The water to my kindling. Tall and blue are you You who has enraptured me so Never changing always ending Any doubts I've been having. This is joy...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, blue, death, depression, how
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stay Salty
Violently mimic the wind, stay salty yet flow like water; With an attitude stay thick skinned, violently mimic the wind; Keep poetry neat and well penned, then punctuate it to slaughter; Violently mimic the wind, stay salty yet flow like water....Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, feelings, ocean, poetry,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Death Fish in Key West
Scientists describe it as an event In the hot paradise of Key West Condos festivals hotels Dancing feet under bells of lights I’ve sung Margaritaville there Myself Beneath the docks Pan fish spin in the new green pea sea Mad somersaults Alone To their own...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, betrayal, earth, endurance, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tri ''Trident'' NEW Poetic Form: Poi
Poi/POI: Haw'n Staple Dish/Poem-Of-Interest. 3 BY 3 BY 3 Write a 3-alphabet title, Write 3 stanzas, with 3 lines with 3 words per line Rhyme scheme: aba, bcb, cac Finally: Your title will be spelled out in the First alphabet...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, allusion, analogy, fate, fear,
Form: Other
Premium Member Honoring Dolphin Island
dolphin shaped island under a turquoise sky calm and serene you honor my soul dream playful thoughts enter my mind I want to dance from your head to your flippers...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean,
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of Ocean Poems

Definition | What is Ocean in Poetry?


Book: Shattered Sighs