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For Brian Strand's Your Choice S Poetry Contest 2 June 2025 ++++++++++++++ salt breeze fills the air, ~ ~ boats sway, ~*~*~*~ropes creak, gulls cry " ", h ___a ...

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Categories: quay, nature,
Form: Haiku
Continental Shift
silence on the seas massive seismic surge follows when continents shift earth’s distinct contour erupts from out the ocean forming Hartland Quay layered, jagged cliffs before time began for us join in upheaval shipwrecks indicate transition under the sea earthquakes unnoticed silence grandpas can't recall pre-ancestral change at all May 8, 2023 Joanna Daniel / Haiku Sonnet...

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Categories: quay, 11th grade, angst, beach,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Above the Quay - 2
Consider this choice (of sound mind) my last hurrah, Have no doubt about my motive so pure and fine See my feet dangling just above the waterline; Give my fond farewells, observe my last scofflaw. I chose this heavy iron chain around my neck; you see, Coarse cattle rope was much too gauche, too...

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Categories: quay, innocence, suicide,
Form: Quatrain
Seduction On the Quay
He caught the faint scent of perfume as she walked by The treacly fragrance of gardenias caused him to sigh She moved with grace and poise that caught his eye Her sultry wink made him quiver at what it might imply She walked towards the beach, near Harper's Quay He followed at a distance on this sunny Summer day A bit...

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Categories: quay, people,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Above the Quay
Some will say I have paid my just, spiritual Penance Though no crime have I confessed before the bar. With bitter Perfume in my nostrils, with Poise, I stand And ponder quickly the maddening accusations hurled ... Then pull the Platinum chain tightly around my neck, [Coarse rope too primitive and gauche a way...

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Categories: quay, death, suicide,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Down By the Quay
Oh, my love, how I wish... you were here by my side so we could both surrender ...

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Categories: quay, imagery, introspection, longing, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Quay For One
Ennui crept up and perched high On the shoulder of a roving mind Hand in hand with gales, now spy Rainbow shrouded in a misty pall Golden friend of the sky just left Entrusted to me a sleepless daze Though my partner be ever nigh None but a grey expanse and I be Mind and sky in murk so cloaked Verve bubbles blown...

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Categories: quay, depression, emotions, encouraging, poetry,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Skeleton Quay - Abridged For Goosebumps Contest
Skeleton quay - abridged for Give Me Goosebumps contest When the sniper fired his rifle and his faithful canine fell A second bullet found his heart and he went down as well Might we stay together, somehow he deigned to try His last exhale the whispered vow, Lord, we must not die Army medics took him, in vain, his life...

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Categories: quay, death, dog, funeral, soulmate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Skeleton Quay - Source Poem For Goosebumps Contest
Foreword: Contains excepts from, and additions to, my own three part poem ‘Bone Idol’, which is way too long to submit here. Skeleton Quay He lingers on the quayside and heeds the phantom howls Out on mist shrouded water his hero dog now prowls While mortal men of flesh and blood exude a scent to track His naked bones emit...

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Categories: quay, best friend, death, grave,
Form: Rhyme
At the Quay
R-ide like the howling wind O-n a wave of popularity W-ill make one drown E-ven in the shallow sea. N-ight sail in the deep ocean at the threat of the coming storm A-llows one to feel the peril, so do the lizard, snake, and worm. M-onth of cold December O-n twenty-second break of day; I-ncoming dangerous surge, N-emesis and risk don't arrive A-t...

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Categories: quay, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Time Flies Based On Portrait No 9, Morning At the Quay In Venice By Helen Allingham
TIME FLIES by Jeanette Jones based on PORTRAIT NO 9 Morning at the Quay in Venice by Helen Allingham TIME FLIES Early still, I rise again. For the quails came calling. Dragging my feet, I stumbled across the room, to get a glimpse before they get to far away. The kettle’s on, brewing the tea, to place...

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Categories: quay, adventure, bird, imagination, mother
Form: Ekphrasis
New Quay Harbour
I sit upon the harbour wall And feel the warm sun on my face. I turn my gaze far out to sea And watch the happy dolphins play. Bright sunbeams slanting through the clouds Are searchlights toying with the waves. I lean against the cold hard lines Of granite blocks quite roughly hewn With urgent cries and rapid fire Of circling seabirds overhead. I hear...

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Categories: quay, nature, places, sea,
Form: Blank verse
Quay Note
Currachs, like upturned whales beached as musical notation on the quay. Those sleek, mussel shelled torpedoes ready to cleave though wavewalls, green and white-tipped, chasing schools of quick-silver with hand-strung nets tuned to their scales. Rhythmic fingers conduct these vessels in ancient songs that harmonise with an underwater chorus, carrying the music booming deep through the years, where the call and response of the tides meets...

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Categories: quay, life, nature, nostalgia, sea,
Form: Free verse
The Keepers of the Quay
Majestically, they stand perched. Arrivals and departures, they see. Carefully guarding their home; The keepers of the quay. Their hover maneuvers astound All that happen to see. Maintaining their height and gracefulness; The keepers of the quay. On beaches they’re searching for food. To people, annoying as can be. Seagulls just trying to live, The keepers of the quay...

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Categories: quay, animals, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Quay Lochs
Ask to gain insight through poet’s sighs answer pries open to adore Tried to say more than a haiku allows (aloud)...

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Categories: quay, on writing and words,
Form: Haiku

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