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Sandbars Poems - Poems about Sandbars

Premium Member You Were There
... I like to think that you were there when muezzin trills called to prayer. Calm stillness drifted in au clair, my thoughts were pining on the air. I like to think that you were there as paste......

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Categories: sandbars, death, dream, longing, loss,
Form: Monorhyme
A Strange Flotsam
...A running sea chokes the throat of a cave then runs away letting it breathe again. Starfish light-up under a luminescent and radioactive surf, then are pushed into sandbars to dry-up and di......

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Categories: sandbars, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Siesta Key-Haikoum
...windswept clumps of grass beach scattered with broken shells~ gulls lift on currents sandpipers feed along beach scattered with broken shells~ tiny legs twinkle shorebirds feeding on ......

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Categories: sandbars, beach, bird, nature,
Form: Haiku
Shifting Sands
...A running sea chokes the throat of a cave then runs away letting it breathe again. Starfish light up under a luminescent surf then are pushed into sandbars to dry-up and die. Beach balls ......

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Categories: sandbars, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poems I Never Wrote
...Between the lily pads and soft sandbars Lay the saturated words of idle time Among bloated carp and feisty sunfish They linger in a sunny dampened rhyme. Fleet Dragonflies of thought dodge dart......

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Categories: sandbars, poetry, writing,
Form: Sonnet



Wharfing the Dawn
...Salt water taffy orchestrated, pouring grain and sweating. Spinning my silhouette, as the dog failed his frisbees. It doesn' let the sun’s rays wash over me, replicate large wooden planks, fo......

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Categories: sandbars, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Shipwrecked
...Sometimes life can be like the sea when winds are calm, and the tide is right we sail across the water of life. But when the winds increase our sails become to......

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Categories: sandbars, addiction, depression, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Sandbars
...Are you digging a hole you will never crawl out of, a prison self-made by your hand The metaphors mix as you lie there betwixt —the bars sinking into the sand (Dreamsleep: April, 2021)......

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Categories: sandbars, prison,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Becoming
...// Note - this was the graduation poem I wrote for my daughter, a landscape architecture major who is also a lovely poetess // You've blessed us as you've grown from bud to blossom; Bright s......

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Categories: sandbars, daughter, graduation,
Form: Verse
Anchors
...To succumb to one's own pride, Or to the ferrying tides? To hold on, you must decide, That this journey's worth the ride. Often times I see these boats Stuck on sandbars, sometimes moats, ......

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Categories: sandbars, boat, devotion, life, metaphor,
Form: Lyric
Schweitzer's Creed
...In his book, "Out of my life and thought" Albert Schweitzer recalls the afternoon in a boat at Lambarene, where he first conceived his guiding philosophy, "Reverence for Life". The staggering implic......

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Categories: sandbars, life, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Old Friends
...Dusty roads and fresh grass summertime rodeos approaching fast riding with a friend down on sandbars A piece of hay hanging out of his mouth though some trapped water, out the other side I had forg......

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Categories: sandbars, faith, family, friendship, love,
Form: Light Verse
Cars In the Trough
...deep circular scars… cold dark troughs between sandbars sharks larger than cars......

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Categories: sandbars, sea
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Clam Digging
...I'm one of many people with shovels in the sand. Some even go digging the crude way by hand. In the estuaries, it is now low tide. There are sandbars that the waters hide. Buried in the sand are ......

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Categories: sandbars, adventure, workpeople, people,
Form: Rhyme
Morning, St. George Island
...A seagull alights on the broken dock, dull grey feathers floating in the thick Florida summer. It cracks its beak, shrieks to the sun, barely risen over the bayou. Light glitters over sandbars......

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Categories: sandbars, nature, places, travel
Form: Free verse

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