Losing Face
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One may see puffins and parrots
any hour of the week
both birds bear a big colourful beak
the former pelagic feed on fish
and live in large colonies on coastal cliffs
tho' monogamous c...
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Categories:
pelagic, bird, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Ecstasy And Agony
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Like a huge pride of lions roaring at ease
From a hidden cavern in the distance ,
The disturbed robust sea diffuses resonance -
In an infinite expanse of sonorous breeze
The heavy, grey cl...
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Categories:
pelagic, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Humorous Laud, Deeply Flawed
...The macabre’s amusing at times,
makes for off-beat, hilarious rhymes.
To my wife they’re not funny;
she wants cute little bunnies
and not ones that are strangled by mimes.
She says, “Why must ...
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Categories:
pelagic, death, humor, muse,
Form: Limerick
Titanic- Fare Thee Well
...On a fine April day, set out in the great cruise ship, Titanic,
Into the pelagic waters of Atlantic, with the weather alluringly sweet.
Plush it was with beaming fellow travelers and amenit...
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Categories:
pelagic, angst, death, ocean, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Ocean Symphony
...Written: September 12, 2023
Ocean Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress
“The sea is an underwater museum still awaiting its visitors.” – Phillip Diol...
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Categories:
pelagic, appreciation, beauty, deep, nature,
Form: Rhyme
My Final Trick
...It's overwhelmingly with sadness, a feeling of sick
That you thought you had control of me like magic
There's no gasoline covering me, put away the matchstick
The emptiness that possesses you is t...
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Categories:
pelagic, betrayal, emotions, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Celestial Jellyfish
...A giant jellyfish was born
emitted from a neutron star
once on a whilom cosmic morn
amidst the stellar seas afar.
With tentacles from arcing crest,
medusa-like it hangs on high
cloudscaped wi...
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Categories:
pelagic, animal, earth, humanity, nature,
Form: Verse
A Distant Thunder
...The early morning hours
were dark and gray
people hurried from homes without power
to some refuge far away;
tears shed profuse and tragic
freedom is a reality that never seems to last
desp...
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Categories:
pelagic, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
The Jurassic Rockfish
...There where coastal waters rage
I spied a rock of ancient age;
a Jurassic specter, ever old
among the waters amid sun’s glow.
I snapped a photo and to its side, I rushed,
to examine...
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Categories:
pelagic, animal, appreciation, fish, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Wings of a Dove
...
lovely, is love
wings of a dove
kisses feathery as snowflakes
like heavenly sent sweet magic
lost in an ocean pelagic
ethereal until daybreaks
like heavenly sent sweet magic
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Categories:
pelagic, love,
Form: Ballad
Silent Sanctuary
..." All the tears I cried were gathered to the sea
and transformed into a beautiful pearl holding my dreams"
Quote_ by Poet
I walk barefoot in the sea s...
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Categories:
pelagic, dream, silence,
Form: Free verse
Ocean - a Pleiades
...Over pelagic reefs,
oscillating waters
obfuscate sunken fetes.
Octopi tango while
oarfish flash titian fins.
Opulent paradise:
oblivious to us.
4/5/21 - written for Kim Merryman's "Pleiad...
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Categories:
pelagic, beautiful, dance, fish, nature,
Form: Pleiades
Are Faithful- -
...I heard a dreadful, prophetical terrifying
the terrorist tapping
the portentous plane petrifying
'It's that haunting,' I muttered
Evil says “DEATH TO THE CHRISTIANS”
Lucifer/Satan say...
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Categories:
pelagic, adventure, analogy, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Verse
On a Passing Cloud There Floats a Dream
...Do you ever lie down in grass and gaze,
pretend no duties call and let mind float,
play which knight wins the furious battle
somewhere in the wisps above daylong haze?
A lizard morphs into war ...
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Categories:
pelagic, dream, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Ten Word Story
...Fantastic
Magic
Majestic
Gigantic
Dynamic
TITANIC
Static
Arctic...
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Categories:
pelagic, adventure, sea,
Form: Shape
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