Riptides Poems - Poems about Riptides

... Disconsolate obsidian waves crash over crumbling dunes, Sweeping afflicted grains of sand back into the depths, Dragging my paralysed soul with them. Engulfed in despondent riptides, I gasp......

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...sea-urchins in rock pools – the flesh, a delicacy – sparkle – protected from the ocean where anemones proliferate – by a mist-glistening heart shaped rock: the keeper of my secrets – ......

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...Like a raging river barreling toward an arid basin, sediment collects inside a hardening heart. Weighing heavy, eyelids flutter over drowning maculas; all that can be seen are murky ript......

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...Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers... with a scheming, loving, and enticing guise alive and well seeking gullible guys (once upon a time just like me), who experiences......

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...Dredged from the depths of a shaken Sennen seashell she hears once more his voice, low, sonorous tones, sees the bones of her past laid out, splayed out, another story playing out, can feel it i......

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... Falling down to my splintering knees, Heaven or Hell, the stone will be cast. Like whiplash, the ground beneath me begins to crack open As my truth is played ......

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...Candle wax drips calcified tears, riptides of dreams burst boundaries; Drops become circles never squares; Out of the box locked in a freeze with rough edges it aims to please; There’s no hidin......

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...In time shadows in an old windy shed are names of sojourners who've passed this way; now my wandering boot does older tread where I passed on a long forgotten day. I see their faces on wa......

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...Rubbing boys shoulders with sunburn oil. The sun smiles at the pain, the brush of fingers against raw flesh. But like a war wound, those boys be proud. Offer them a salve and they scoff, don......

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...Deep within see beyond my flesh and bone, such quiet flames can come off aloof; Encrypted smile resembling stone, my aura stays ninety proof; Turquoise sea forever I’ll stay true blue to all ......

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...Floating on the abyss Or am I engulfed, drowning, dying in deep waters? I gasp for air attached to your lips Fluid fills my lungs as I struggle to breathe The wind lifts my soul to heavenly happi......

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...riptides sneaky undertows drags black sand back into waves ~ sea hawks sound alarms 4/3/23 Contest: A New Nature Themed Haiku Sponsor: Tania Kitchin......

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...riptides sneaky undertows drags black sand back into waves ~ sea hawks sound alarms 4/3/23 Contest: A New Nature Themed Haiku Sponsor: Tania Kitchin......

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...As a rainbow of the sunset descends and the balmy breeze washes over sand that tickles between toes and carefree hand, I’m in the company of valued friends. The deceptive calm of darkening ......

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...at the cusp between slumber and wakefulness I reach a subconscious of wonder it seems that my house was built too close to the ocean foundations and perimeter walls supported by reason and ......

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