OceanOcean waves call me.
Beckoning me to stop and stay a while. Staying awhile to listen to the peaceful music of the waves breaking upon the sand. Watching waves persistently pulling back to start again with no hesitation.
If only the waves spoke a foreign language only I could understand. I would stay...
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Categories:
ocean, appreciation, art, beach, beautiful,
Form: Ekphrasis
Where the Ocean KneelsInspired by the 2024 U.S. "Cosmic Cliffs" stamp (Scott #5828), featuring a James Webb Space Telescope image of the Carina Nebula.
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Categories:
ocean, america, beauty, color, devotion,
Form: Ekphrasis
Go summer, come autumnDays too long for the sun to bite still hard,
All trees bring forth leaves that are mostly green,
Different hues are what summer fails to preen,
With grace, yet with force, summer's hands bombard.
Rain may catch even the prepared off guard,
Its runoff sweeps paved roads fresh, clear and clean,
Its grains and pebbles make the oceans glean,
Yet...
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Categories:
ocean, autumn, feelings, longing, love,
Form: Sonnet
Categories:
nature, ocean, sea, sound,
Form: Haiku
The oceanThe ocean
I always had a fear of the ocean you know?
Those deep dark tides pulling you in
The darkness lurking beneath the horizon
But oh how beautiful it is
Pulling me closer and closer
Until my feet feel the shore going back home then coming back to me for a short moment before leaving again
I hated...
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Categories:
ocean, analogy, beach, betrayal, feelings,
Form: Free verse
A Sight To SeeThe water from the blow hole spewed.
It’s hard to believe what then ensued.
With his powerful tail and massive speed,
The great humpback whale’s breaching was awesome to see.
...
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Categories:
ocean, adventure, beauty, inspirational, nature,
Form: Rhyme
My Friend Is the Ocean
My friend is the ocean, waters that glide,
Rustling my footsteps and tousling my hair;
Many the times that we walked side by side,
A spark and forever, joined as a pair.
Always a cloud there lay over its play,
Dappled the sunlight that fell on my face;
Heaving, its waters had something to say;
Twilight with meteors it took for the...
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Categories:
ocean, abuse, allegory, friendship, innocence,
Form: Sonnet
Torchbearer in the Ocean
E-very
V-essel
A-waits
N-ew
S-ea
J-ourneys
O-f
S-hips,
E-xpecting
P-eaceful
H-arbingers.
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Evans A. Joseph)...
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Categories:
ocean, birthday,
Form: Other
Sensations"And my thoughts are all sensations"
And my sensations are all my thoughts.
The sun controls the moon,
and the moon controls me.
She said she was a she/they/we,
and we just laughed. Not
her we, just us.
And my thoughts are all sensations,
we'll only ever be as smart as your sun.
But the sun controls the moon,
and the moon controls we.
You've...
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Categories:
ocean, 12th grade, beauty, dream,
Form: Free verse
I look at the sky as an ocean of freedom, a realm of boundless flightI look at the sky as an ocean of freedom, a realm of boundless flight,
where birds sketch their destinies on the blue canvas of infinity,
and I wonder why I remain where wings are just unlived dreams,
but the mirror shows me the answer, a truth hidden deep in my heart,
for my wings were never broken, just...
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Categories:
ocean, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A Fishy TaleI spoke to the sea,
a calm breath
though a gale raged
inside of me – both my
sails shredded, I begged
for mercy:
“Thou art the greatest world current,
what brag would be a wretched notch
like me!? Devourer of coasts!
Reshaper of vast continents! Bane
of man’s mightiest fleets! Countless
formidable have foolishly challenged thee, and now
lie silent in your crushing...
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Categories:
ocean, cute, fantasy, fishing, grandfather,
Form: Prose Poetry
Confronting Shadows
On a whisper-still afternoon, with a feeling of deep calm.
The last thing I thought of was being in any harm.
From the seaside village, I had headed out to the ocean,
A day for enjoying the sea's cool, relaxing motion.
Oppressive tropical heat, unusual for this time of year.
The gentle waves lapping gave me nothing to fear....
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Categories:
ocean,
Form: Rhyme
From the Quay
Categories:
boat, ocean,
Form: Haiku
West Coast WalkingAll alone is all i've ever been
miss when houses felt like a home
now more-so abandoned
as i walk around these ghost, derealization
now im on the west coast
starin at the ocean
reminds me of these flows
Melodies surfin
my skull got deep holes
here but driftin
mold the words no play-doh
in rhymes sinkin
realest never make the studio
like waves they driftin
built it up...
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Categories:
ocean, feelings, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Rainbow HuesI’m ruby red for passion
Blue sapphire like the sky
Turquoise like the ocean
These gems I have inside
Bluish green in daytime
Purplish red at night
Alexandrite symphony
Reveals my inner light
An amethyst so peaceful
It brings me inner calm
Aquamarine tranquility
My soul sings along
Bloodstone for courage
Citrine golden hues
Diamond strength for purity
So many gems to choose
I was born from stardust
Gems of...
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Categories:
ocean, beautiful, celebration, courage, happiness,
Form: Quatrain
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