Shifting Sand
...I was walking along the beach,
aware of sight and sound.
The landscape had much to teach,
from the sky to the ground.
The sand shifted under my feet,
fine grains, soft and dry.
The kind that ...
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Categories:
seagrass, appreciation, beach, butterfly, ocean,
Form: Quatrain
Symphony
...Nimble fingers glide across the strings
practiced notes turn instruction into muscle memory
dancing, the bow sounds out each note
on the ivory shore, breezy and remote
Clouds drift about, sun w...
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Categories:
seagrass, beach, music, sea,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Heart's Slumber
...I'm a sinister shell,
lost in bygone
deepwaters of
gravity-less
cerulean tears,
that saturate
molten sundrops,
falling from
zinc-plated skies,
as heliophilic snow,
melts frosted
m...
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Categories:
seagrass, angst, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Syzygy
...
"Syzygy"
Behind the wet dunes
fringed with seagrass
a blood crescent
kisses the forehead
of dreamer traversed
twin aeon syzygy
barefeet the velvet
sophia imprints
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Categories:
seagrass, dream, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
A Moment Long Ago
...A moment long ago
The farmer said he needed sand for the fenced-in chicken run
Off we went, hooking the cart to our tiny female horse that had
been so sweet a foal, she was named Dokka (doll)
T...
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Categories:
seagrass, beach, child, devotion, happiness,
Form: Blank verse
Beneath Unknown Shores
...Beneath Unknown Shores
Waves envelop the steel keel of a massive cruise liner
Off rails eyes hypnotized sense serenity on indigo bay
Cloudles...
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Categories:
seagrass, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Gateway
...Outside the sanctum, clenched teeth, tension,
a sense of being spun slowly, in comical ocean drift
Bobbed cork barely able to rein my orientation.
Luckily, current flux of haphazar...
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Categories:
seagrass, allusion, analogy, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse
Rusted Autumn
...Full of looming fruit
The black wind whispers
the children lived blithely
yonder in blue cave
The silent river protrudes
by the forked road
where the seagrass grows
The seagull mutely follow...
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Categories:
seagrass, analogy, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
To See Forever
...To see forever
I left the ship at the industrial part of the island
my tour of duty was over and took a taxi to the other side
to take a ferry to town.
At the café near the ferry landing, I dr...
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Categories:
seagrass, best friend, blessing, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
Of Free Will
...The warm island breeze,
happily dances along.
Lifting sand, rustling leaves,
with it's own cheerful song.
Always present, always found,
through every window and door.
Gaily swirling up and do...
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Categories:
seagrass, appreciation, freedom, wind,
Form: Quatrain
Talk To Me of Daybreak
...Talk to me now...of day break
Of questing light
The sky
Salted with clouds
crimson with a spectrum of a rainbow at dawn
or
peppered with grey and raindrops
Sugared all
with the seeds of a n...
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Categories:
seagrass, blessing, death, earth, life,
Form: Free verse
Biggest Plant Ever - Posidonia Australis
...I
Five thousand years
Slow human gears
No internet ears
Seagrass grew
II
Now 200 rugby fields
Showcase Nature's yields
When humans are still
Posidonia, fiberball, grow it will
(Protected ...
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Categories:
seagrass, encouraging, environment, growth, history,
Form: Rhyme
Liquid Fantasy
...cold to the touch of warm sandy toes -
ebb and flow of liquid fantasy.
coolness climaxes at her sculpted shoulders.
coral hair, like seagrass, floats.
shapely legs morph. her ta...
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Categories:
seagrass, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Small Fry
...Small fry
Fingerlings are playing among seagrass in shallow water
they stop when the big shadow of an adult passes overhead
sometimes they play is so exciting they forget
and end swallowed who...
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Categories:
seagrass, best friend, blessing, confusion,
Form: Sonnet
The Message
...Late afternoon on a beautiful day.
The ocean called out to me.
A feeling so strong, I had to obey.
There was one place I had to be.
I walked the path to the beach,
the dunes along either side....
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Categories:
seagrass, appreciation, beach, beautiful, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
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