Mermaid Messes Around With Her Healing Hands
...mermaid messes around with her magic hand
Spurts and sparks fly out across the water onto land.
I would not do that if I were you, a wise man says.
The next thing she knows she’s in a fishbowl wit...
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Categories:
onto land, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Kindness At the Sea
...The palm tree bends in the wind at the sea
with smooth, beautiful, flexibility
A splash of salt water hits the sand
Rolling with sea shells onto land
Surprises to find in a special search
bene...
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Categories:
onto land, beautiful, giving, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Rubicon Crossing-Edited
...Our blue planet, the epitome of primal beauty,
a unique dot of singularity in celestial infinity,
revolved in astral space spinning nature’s splendors,
until on evolution trail hostile species of ...
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Categories:
onto land, analogy, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse
Grand Howl For the Sea
...Grand Howl for the Sea
Oh I howl!
Longing to be free…
But I remain, landlocked to a people
Growling and hissing you must face your responsibilities!
Indebted to a society into which my debts...
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Categories:
onto land, boat, environment, freedom, journey,
Form: Carpe Diem
Grand Howl For the Sea
...Grand Howl for the Sea
Oh I howl!
Longing to be free…
But I remain, landlocked to a people
Growling and hissing you must face your responsibilities!
Indebted to a society into which my debts...
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Categories:
onto land, boat, environment, freedom, journey,
Form: Carpe Diem
Flash Flood Alert
...On our phones, a piercing screech
Is sending an alert,
To keep us all protected
So nobody will get hurt.
A flash flood may be coming!
In addition to some showers,
Streams may overflow their b...
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Categories:
onto land, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Conflicted By Self-Ness
...Pick is conflicted by self-ness
She rarely ponders or introspects but it is a weird evening
Pan, her cousin, would never understand, so she will not bother.
She stands at the edge of the swamp,
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Categories:
onto land, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
If Ever I Had a Country : Xi and Xii
...IF ever I had a country: XI - XII
IF ever I had a country
And if ever I were but the Admiral of the Fleet
I'd issue an edict to keep ships out of foreign waters
I'd order all on deck on or o...
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Categories:
onto land, deep, environment, green, ocean,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Good and Evil
...Rain
Gentle rain.
Softly falling,
Playfully splashing,
Tumbling down.
Raindrops racing
Down a window pane.
Pitter patter.
Pitter patter.
Pitter patter.
Cool.
Clear.
Refreshing,
Replenish...
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Categories:
onto land, allegory, raven,
Form: Blank verse
Coco the Clown
...Coco the clown went sailing one day
to a holiday destination far far away
Suddenly, the sky went dark and the wind did blow
and the waves beneath his boat did grow and grow
Coco lost his oar...
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Categories:
onto land, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Jonah
...My word arose in Jonah's ear
To Nineveh say, "The judgment’s near;
Now harken unto My decree,
For your wicked ways have come to Me."
But from My presence Jonah fled
Down to Joppa so he sped
T...
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Categories:
onto land, bible, christian, faith, god,
Form: Ballad
Freedom Ship
...Freedom Ship
There is a ship floating in the harbor
It has a long history behind it
Hauling hundreds of starving people
Men, women and children
Loaded in the ship’s belly
Fleeing from torture...
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Categories:
onto land, humanity, life, sad,
Form: Free verse
Wind Blown Dreams
...The wind howls, breaking branches all about with cracks
Roaring like a racing train down the long metal tracks.
The wind blows lightly gliding a paper boat floating by
So quickly noticed, then gon...
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Categories:
onto land, dream, image, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Pink Cotton Candy
...Pink cotton candy striated clouds
Intermingle with blue
Lure the artist to observe painting
Upon a canvas true
Distant doves sing a summer song
Happy to raise a large brood
Soon they'll b...
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Categories:
onto land, character,
Form: Rhyme
Outside-In Inside-Out, Rebirth, Earth's Time Shares,
...birth, creation, dark, death, earth, history, metaphor
OUTSIDE-IN---INSIDE OUT! © TANKA
Very green flushed carpets
Sky blue azure topped ceilings
Tree branched sofa chairs
Mirror sea rippl...
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Categories:
onto land, birth, creation, dark, death,
Form: Tanka
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