Today is neat I went to the beach, the Red Sea coast
I saw some nice people volunteerly clean the coast
Oceans cleaning day what a lovely good work we had!
Halloween party
I was not at all scared but brave to boast
arranging Halloween party being the host,
on a Halloween night at remote sea-coast.
offering chocolate cake and butter-toast.
Also to relish beer with turkey roast,
Guests were vampire, venomous snake, scary ghost,
wicked witty witch, crooked, cunning most,
Nocturnal owl screaming sitting on post.
Hawk and eagle fought hard at their utmost
both having curvy beaks, first and foremost.
Red and yellow light flashing on lamppost.
Party ran chaos till late night almost.
PARTY AT HALLOWEEN NIGHT
I was not at all scared
but brave to boast
arranging Halloween party
being the host,
offering chocolate cake
and butter-toast,
whisky, beer with chicken
and turkey roast,
to vampire, venomous snake,
scary ghost,
witty wicked witch,
also cunning most.
Nocturnal owl screaming
sitting on post.
on Halloween Night
at remote sea-coast.
Sailors from a sinking ship not one shall survive
For mermaids grasp them by the hips
and to the bottom dive.
Both young and old sailors gasp and drown
into the deep.
The ocean is a sea of tears in dying they weep.
So beautiful the mermaids are with faces young
red lips and slender necks were strings of pearls hung.
Their hair is long and flowing in every hue a man could desire
their eyes are deep and dreamy set one's heart afire
Their breast are full and perky every red blooded boy would peek
their skin smooth their hands soft make the strongest man weak
But below the waist a fish tail large and ever strong
powerful in the mermaids grasp, no escape forever you belong
She is fast is the Marlin swims with a shark's bite
and the death of drowning sailors brings her an odd delight.
So beware ye mates and sail on never listen to the sirens song
for if you sail to close to the rocky sea coast your ship and life be gone
The mermaid such seductive beauty, tempts a lonely man at sea
but she is the devil fish, your life and soul a pearl on her necklace to bead.
(tongue-in-cheek humor)
I understand there is a lawsuit, doc # 666, Neptune vs. Jersey. Apparently, windmills being put in the ocean off the Jersey coast was all done without consultation and approval by the Sea Council – who clam (ocean slang for claim) guardians of the sea coast, Loan Sharks, were paid by politicians to keep usually open mouths shut, and therefore the project went forward without public digest (a form of shoreline debate). Salacia, Poseidon, Neptune, and other overlords have their fins in a tizzy, equally upset about gender changing surgery being suggested to school fish pupils by gender fluid teachers also causing quite an uproar within the shallows and depths – stay tuned to the Splashy, your Prime Time Ocean News Network. This is written tongue-in-cheek, and any resemblance to real people or places is accidental and unintended. No truth in any of this to my knowledge.
copper burns across an endless sky
competing caws claim salt, surf and sand
sailing high above slowly sagging carcasses
long forgotten at the edge of the world
buckled rails swim over a shimmering shingle sea
the largest of its kind, hinting at some other time;
engines once chugged to billingsgate from this beach
herring bound for the cinque ports
and they say women dragged each boat -
pulled them down to that shore’s faithless embrace;
the muttered prayers of mothers and daughters
casting their men out on fortune’s dark waters
now nets, set for a tide that came and went, lay
mouldering among those collapsing clinkers
as if the fisherfolk just left one night, fled
granting the gulls sole control of that desolate dominion
their toil and trade, the legacy of our fathers’ fathers
still lays there on that beach; haunts that huge cove
rich history, like in so many places, fading away
rotting, rusting, ruined
Dusky evening merging Halloween night
Crowd of cloud on sky: Absolute no light.
Nocturnal owl and violent Vampire fight.
Octopus embraced Black widow too tight.
Me not scared, quite bold and brave to boast
arranged party, offered bread -toast,
beside a jungle near sea coast.
Groaning ghost tasted chicken- roast.
Venue selected: Haunted house.
Me danced delight with loving spouse.
Blue-green eyed cat chased macro mouse.
On floor crawling scorpion, louse.
Wicked witch showed long thorny nails.
Crooked crocodiles wagging tails.
Single shark ringing jingle bells.
Hawks in flocks attack me: Heart fails.
I'm intrigued by what there may be
'neath great depths of ocean and sea
Treasures lost from life's history
A mystery A mystery
What's buried under ocean sands
Pirate's plunder and wedding bands
I dream of finding pearls in strands
With my two hands With my two hands
Ancient vessels, sunken for years
found off the sea coast of Algiers
admired by Mesdames and Messieurs
Toasted with cheers Toasted with cheers
I'd drain one mile of a river
just one briny little sliver
What will its waters deliver?
Would I shiver? Would I shiver?
What secrets do the oceans keep?
Do monsters swim or do they creep?
I long to execute a sweep
In fathoms deep In fathoms deep
Curiosity in me wakes
To dive within uncharted lakes
and sea beds risen from earthquakes
How high the stakes How high the stakes
But sunken relics from the past
remain interred in oceans, vast
Bounty from ships with broken mast
My dream downcast My dream downcast
June 1st, 2022
Fascination and Awe Contest
Sponsored by Jeff Kyser
Poetry Form - Monotetra
Ceylon it was
Sea land to mean
As my guess going
Sri Lanka the name
Ceylon gone a long
Around Sea coast
A pearl like of course
Bikinis and Speedos
worn with glee
exposing more
than some want to see
but hey, those people
look just like me
it all hangs out
on the Black Sea coast
Saint-Tropez... not for most
so pack your bags
I'll meet you there
we can tan the fat
without a care
Ghost
Sightings are hard to ignore
Especially since they cause such
An uproar
Along the sea coast.
Where old sailors start to boast
About how their beings with unfinished
Business as they're bringing up stories
Of forgotten captains, mates, and sea lore.
Ghost
Sightings are hard to ignore
Undermost
Normal circumstances throw in love,
Treasure, and gore
Naturally people will want to hear more.
They'll even go online and read every post.
Ghost
Sightings are hard to ignore.
HALLOWEEN NIGHT Mono Rhyme
I was not at all scared but brave to boast
arranging Halloween party being the host,
offering chocolate cake and butter-toast
whisky, beer with chicken and turkey roast,
to flying vampire, venomous snake, scary ghost,
wicked witch, crucked and cunning most,
Nocturnal owl screaming sitting on post
on a Halloween Night at remote sea-coast
10/12/17
Edited on 10/23/21
'Halloween Monorhyme' Contest
by Caren Krutsinger
The cloud blinks yellow
ripples of waves dance on sea
the cool breeze lingers...
hawk shines at its blaze...
branches of trees move slowly
along the sea coast.
Light house tower's light
twinkles like a star at night
from distant places
Sailor takes due care
to reach the sea coast safely
light house blesses all
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