Ocean Prison Poems

Have you been
Hiking the  Quiraing trail on the isle of Skye?
watching golden eagles as they fly by?
Have you been
Hiking through fields of paintbrush on...

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Dear Jane;

My dear sweet animal…We have been left astray. for the strings of mankind torment me so, in my sparrows rusted birdcage.

It may have only...

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During the Second World War, people were panicking everywhere in the world.  And of all continents, Asia was one of the most devastated in...

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There once was a pretty mermaid
Who tied her hair in a long braid.
She had way too many friends.
Who swam out till the ocean's ends

But alas!...

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The Octopi Jars
by Michael R. Burch

Long-vacant eyes
now lodged in clear glass,
a-swim with pale arms
as delicate as angels'...

you are beyond all hope
of salvage now...
and yet I...

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Confined in a  bowl of silver bubbles 
human eyes to view, hurled and thrown 
round and round, aimless drift in orbits 
a prison of...

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From my self made
Prison walls
I look outside
And see the sun

The ocean breeze
Reaches me
I see the seagulls
Flying free

These hard and cold
Stone cell walls
Close around me
Cut my...

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You have to get caught in the storm
In order to appreciate the sun.
You have to swim across the ocean 
To enjoy the dirt under your...

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....." Just Let Me Sleep " ....


In bed wrapped up under a soft silk cover ,
The need to sleep, but my mind wants another ,

Where...

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I spent a year or two aboard
A sea faring vessel 
Through the gale and through the rain
With Lord Neptune I did wrestle 

Me Capitan was...

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I’m lost in an unknown world where I am not a stranger
Citizen of love recognize and value by all
People adore my knowledge about my country
As...

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