Beach Pride Poems

Flags
Miniature standards
Plunged by
A child’s hand
into turrets
Of a castle 
of golden sand
Long washed clean
By rolling tides.
Sometimes
A bugle plays
On 
Omaha Beach
...

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Buzz buzz go the jet ski's,
Chug chug go the glass bottomed boats,
The speedboats race leaving a long white flume,
The water bubbles from the pool aerator.

There's...

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I am proud to have lived a long and varied life…
proud to have found joy in most every day…
and extremely proud at the diversity of...

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I found you, alone, over looked, ignored.
I could see the potential, the beauty,
A diamond in the rough,
Your face was streaked with dirt and marred.
‘Twas clear...

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As a Navy Veteran,
I salute you all.
Brave women and men,
That answered the call.

From Soldiers on the beach,
To Flyers in the air.
One lesson they would teach,
May...

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Need to get back to my feet, find my way home
put down this heavy rifle, seek grace.. 
a familiar voice, a kind face, 
hope for...

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It is time for them to run  

In the Jersey Shore tourist sun  

Continuing their three-year-old campaign  

Feeling the warmth of youthful...

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Transition 
between spring and summer, Santa Monica and Laguna Beach
despair to laughter, classroom to Zoom
Pagan festival brings renewal cinema:  

In honor of May Day
Climbing...

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June's Pride

June's summer haze a craze on lazy days,
while memory plays to bring back youthful ways,
of swimming fun and splashing in the sun,
downtime of none...

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'If chronic pain were Olympic sport'

Morning shocks me with a jolt
Night time flies like Usain Bolt
If dream of sleep were 'lympic pride
My pain within I'd...

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Trigga...click..boom-bang..sounding like a beat box!!!!
My woman...my everything
Through the spoken word i was produced
Wish i could climb the highest mountain and scream "mum! i love u"
The...

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Sitting in the sand, warm and comforting
Watching boats in the distance. My shoes
In my hand. Around me laughter, children.
Towels, people. Incomprehensible language
foreign land. Moving a...

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Its been a year since you left me
Although i know it will happen
Still loneliness flowing all over my body
Longing when we were together as my...

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I remember that night as if it were yesterday,
sitting and watching your chest moving rhythmically 
up and down as you took each breath.
Your face was...

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A kiss from a rose on a sunset night,
as the clouds dip into the sea.
A kiss from that rose as the waves fall,
over the beach...

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