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Seawall Poems - Poems about Seawall

Premium Member Island
...Miles of beautiful sandy beaches with stunning ocean views … The Seawall that includes the longest continuous sidewalk … ......

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Categories: seawall, nature, sea, storm,
Form: Verse
February Gray
... February Gray The weather and my mood, dismal as KING 5’s Headline News reports of politics, war and a cold rain forecast for tomorrow, makes me take a break from TV or staring out the wi......

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Categories: seawall, 12th grade, home,
Form: Free verse



Hurricanes
...The banks here were overflowing The trees bent down, down like twigs The wind howled, blowing to and fro We didn't know the storm would be so big I'm talking about down in Texas Hurricane Alecia......

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Categories: seawall, anxiety, beach, city, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Speaking the Waves
...Waves came in as big as buses, smashing on the seawall and exploding into clouds of watery shrapnel. I felt the sound inside of me, guttural, pushing up and shaping the word "whoosh" in my mou......

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Categories: seawall, sound, storm, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Masters of the Wind
...They stand in regimented order, lined up on the seawall, all facing into the wind. A slight turn of a body catches a squall and sends an errant gull off balance forcing it to take flight. Ov......

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Categories: seawall, bird, sea, wind,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Split Sea Soup
...The soup tonight is matzo ball A night of wonder for one and all Crossing the Sea on foot is a tricky proposition ~ There's poetry in the majestic seawall ______________________......

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Categories: seawall, food, history, poetry, word
Form: Rubai
Premium Member Journey
...Our outside road may have a billion steps, but the inward journey has just one: this step. By poet. The geese fly back to the light ove......

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Categories: seawall, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, bird,
Form: Rhyme
The Sightless Sea
...Lowing fog horns shake scales from rooftops. We see the seawall drowning, the surging waves rising unfolding spume and brume into mountains. From the pub on the harbor front, we can hear the......

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Categories: seawall, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Quiet and Still
...I walk down a quiet street, in the darkening gloom. The evening air, softly sweet, with the hint of perfume. The evening is quiet and still, sounds have faded away. Street lights come on at......

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Categories: seawall, appreciation, beach, peace, sea,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Pare Wharf
...On the seawall a rocky jutting shore and white breasted gulls and shags flit the sky. Yes, there was a time but not anymore I gazed the stars over Whenuapai. Crazed by lunar tide and hear......

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Categories: seawall, memory, youth,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Freshmen Conversation
...We’re (my pose is gathered this Saturday morning because I made a pancake and bacon breakfast) listening to a Britney Spears song, off one of Leong’s playlists. “I remember when I was about 8,” I say......

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Categories: seawall, friendship, fun, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Matter of Time
...Whenever I’m alone, As usually I am these days, I make room to acknowledge The weight of my own presence By minding the tide of my breath. It flows in on a four-count With the ease of de......

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Categories: seawall, allegory, loneliness, time,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Stronger By the Hour
...Stronger by the Hour David J Walker It is Afterall Only a wall Made of words How many lawyers does it take To make A wall of bricks So thick That not e......

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Categories: seawall, allegory, dark, death, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Metamorphosis
...The ocean beast leaps forward, Then slinks back, lying in wait. It tosses its billowy mane, and, With a snarl, springs up and pounces On the slippery black rocks of the jetty, Frothing at the mo......

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Categories: seawall, angst, extended metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nor'Easter
...The waves dash themselves Against the rocks, Sending geysers of spray High over the seawall, Half drowning the cars That are creeping slowly Through the sandy lakes Forming on the road. The w......

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Categories: seawall, imagery, storm,
Form: Free verse

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