Ocean Poems

Sumptuous suggestions straddle stagnancy
Summoned by engaging pages
Susceptible skulls imbibe vibrancy
Surmounting latitude notion ravages

Authors serve smorgasbord swathes of research 
Reading's pizza fuses flavours opposing
Issues investigated, valid views aptly asserted
Essays stretch perception, anomaly concepts provoking

Unfurling knowledge tunes recognition's accord
Rhizomes capacitate vertical fronds...Read More

Pabulum

We live every day,
We die only once,
No reruns of it either way,

Being almost late,
Is always on time,
We are almost late every time.

Our present moment,
Is our past moment,
Our future moment is now.

A tear from Heaven,
Froze top a mountain,
Goes on to feed...Read More

This world can be a hard cold place,                                ...Read More

Reality is something you rise above,                                  ...Read More

Once in a while you realize you are worthy
An ocean of emptiness I conquered
A transcendental mind as gift
Why am I still barren?

Cruelty grows everyday within my realm
Nemesis hid my life in the fine print
I search for hidden knowledge
All in the...Read More

in the ocean of my sleep stars glow like fragile seeds
and I sail across the celestial tranquil black sky
where silence is hanging sublime
and I fall through this dark warm dream
my hair a flowing river
and I drift to beautiful places and...Read More

Alba Gal swam down to the plane
It was the plane that brought her here
The remains of her Comet jet
In thousands of pieces at the ocean bottom
How the plane broke up was bad 
But how Alba Gal and the others
Lost their...Read More

Poems are not a thing of the past
But they are the present day choice
They make me falter and they make me fumble
I take a slice of cream and slumber under the ocean
Fantasies hit me side by side but nevertheless
I try...Read More

Liberal and poetic translation of an extract from the verse portion of Lotus Sutra, Chapter 25 (Avalokitesvara Chapter).


Sentient Beings mired in myriad hardships, 
Who toss and turn and buckle under 
Relentless anxieties, the fog of uncertainty, 
Shall find relief in...Read More

Blue sky, honey rays, 
sonorous voice of the sea.
Waves silently creep
leaving slight spume, then slowly
draws a breath, taking footprints
into its deepness.


2/18/2020

Let The Pens Flow - Tanka Poetry Contest  
Sponsored by: Jenish Somadas


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Here in the Arctic land here I stay
the coldest climate found anywhere
though in recent years it's warmer
makes one wonder feeling change of air

This brings these humans over here
always click clicking in my direction
you would think I was a real beau
up...Read More

A brand new car is what I love,
Love the body, the new car smell,
So to local luxury garage I drove,
that’s where I met lovely Shantelle!

Bright blue was the colour in mind,
A four wheel drive good for snow,
For my golf kit,...Read More

Visibility's dropped to near-zero
   Thermometer's plummeting too
Ocean tempest tossing and turning
   Spraying the nerves of the crew

Deck swabbed by torrential rain
   Passengers hunkered down below
Afternoon's slipped into deep shadows
   Danger's pulse glowers...Read More

Believing We Can
Written: by Miracle Man
2-17-2020

Each day I'm reminded that God's in control,
it's important to notice, things He has made.
From placement in the ocean of each atoll,
to the forest and His placement of a glade. 

But we too, are known...Read More

i asked
how much
she said
twenty
i asked
thirty
no no 
twenty one
but i asked
twenty five
no no twenty
three

i said
si si si
twenty
three words
for one poem
so i must
pick only
the best
to describe
what i must
describe as
the best:

shower singing
ocean waves
waving siren
summoning
swim
come in

chocolate 
Venus in
one piece
flowered
hair braided...Read More

Oh what a beautiful day                                   ...Read More

Here we sit all cold and wet,                                 ...Read More

"S is for Silence"



Once Love lived in a heart
a storm called S
ripped it apart on a 
sunny blue sky day
tears fell like rain 
in a broken cup of  
trust rusting, it was 
swallowed by 
Respect who lay 
curled up...Read More

A Lull

An event that surfers know too well,
for it visits upon them, time and time, again,
and upon its occasion, it is best to parley.

Friends are made whilst best friends meld,
as addresses are traded, and rendezvous are created,
amidst an extension of...Read More

For years I lived by the ocean. Sea-scents 
wandering inside the house through opened 
windows, the sound of falling waves, in calm 
or raging weather, filling each room.

Walking the beach was part of my day’s routine, 
but not for philosophic...Read More

Silent Wisdom

Did you see?
Did you look?
What do think?
They are so…   …   ?

Words heard directly, 
indirectly or by accident, 
but never by intent. 
Not things you would say…
to anyone’s face,
especially theirs.
No! 
 
Not things you would sing.
Not...Read More

You are a great painter, I know it very well,
Your every paint is like evening temple bell,
You can paint the colourful flowers of garden,
Tiny droplets of rain water that make all ocean,
Our earth is so beautiful and we are really...Read More

Lance-Lot
by Michael R. Burch

Preposterous bird!
Inelegant! Absurd!

Until the great & mighty heron
brandishes his fearsome sword.

Keywords/Tags: Nature, Animal, Bird, Birds, Heron, Herons, Fish, Fishing, River, Ocean, Ardeidae, Egret, Egrets, Bittern, Bitterns, Great Blue Heron, Goliath Heron, Gray Heron, Great Egret, Crane, Stork,...Read More

May your thoughts they shine with words and rhyme
May your days bring about good fortune
I hope for thee good works indeed in not to small a portion
Good tidings for you and others too out clear across the ocean

May God's good...Read More

Swimming though my days as hard and as fast as I can
Feeling the energy of the hourly waters
Refreshed and energized when I stay in my lane
But is there more?
I decide to find out

Swimming in an ocean now
A sense of daring...Read More