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Seaward Poems - Poems about Seaward

Premium MemberWhispers of a Summer Trail

...We hike the trails where emerald silence grows, 
The forest hums beneath the morning light, 
The mountain breathes in rhythms nature knows. 

The beach wind plays with gulls in seaward flight, 
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Categories: seaward, summer,
Form: Terzanelle

Premium MemberFrom the Quay

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b    b     i     g     
   o     b    n     colours

CLANKING...
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Categories: seaward, boat, ocean,
Form: Haiku



Chinese Translations IV

...CHINESE TRANSLATIONS IV

These are English translations of Chinese poems about nature, the seasons, autumn, winter, spring, night, time, tears, flowers and love. 

Seeking a Mooring
by Wang Wei
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Categories: seaward, autumn, love, nature, night,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSailors' Souls

...Solitary seafarer sings sea chanties,
salty sea breeze serenity,
sea birds skim waves,
suddenly, so many sailors' souls
of the sunken WW II ship USS Indianapolis
started singing sonorous,
soari...
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Categories: seaward, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Alliteration

Risk Adverse

...On the morrow ships will sail
To roam beyond the hidden veil
And brave the stormy seas to see
If ships holds carry destiny
Yet here we will to seaward keep
The watch that holds our wandering fee...
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Categories: seaward, anxiety, longing, voyage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Midas Mind

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The migratory mind indomitable,
the spirited surfer on surging waves of life, 
creates the curled crests of fractured moon,
and the dark troughs of sinking fallen stars.
The swell rec...
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Categories: seaward, analogy, hope, life,
Form: Free verse

The Crow

...?The air gently rises, I'm called, I'm called
"Spread now your wings, fly free, into the sky"
My wings impatient to ride the wind soaring
Softly call me to take the rising thermals
I spring away ...
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Categories: seaward, bird, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberArt As Activism II

...*Henry Ford developed plastic from soybeans for cars. It degrades! 



Art As Activism II

Imagine no longer the sounds of seagulls squawking                       
or splashing through...
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Categories: seaward, earth, environment, pollution, youth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Arcane Skill

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The resolute mind indomitable,
the feisty surfer on the waves of life 
of curled crests with strewn fractured moon
and dark troughs of sunken stars,
recedes with the ebb of time, 
looks out ...
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Categories: seaward, analogy, fantasy, hope, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMaritime Metallic Mind

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The cobalt mind of ancient mariner of the seven seas,
the surfing sailor tosses on the waves of youthful life,
rolls on the curled crests with the splintered moon,
drawn into dark agony trough...
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Categories: seaward, analogy, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMasked Midas Mind

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The migratory mind 
      indomitable,
of the spirited surfer
      possessed,
waltzes on waves of life,
curled crests climb
      demented,
fling the fractured moon,
dark troughs descend...
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Categories: seaward, analogy, hope, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStoicism As Way of Life - Or Not

..."As a child I maintained a stoic attitude.
I exhibited patience, restraint, resignation, forbearance, and lack of complaint.
The ideal child you might say. As I grew, I realized the error of my way...
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Categories: seaward, dream,
Form: Free verse

Waves

...waxing gibbous light
and crashing surge collect us—
the moon moves the tides

pause in wave-action
you, me, equilibrium—
the moon moves the tides

receding sands run
seaward, erasing footste...
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Categories: seaward, moon, nature, ocean,
Form: Haiku

Ground Level Entry

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"Ground Level Entry"

“She fits the bill”,
they say it 
insouciantly

visions of being 
carried in the beak 
of a bilious pelican 

where it builds
its rudimentary ne...
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Categories: seaward, muse,
Form: Narrative

Stormed On Life, Gaze Seaward

...Stormed on, midst life, sinking
And confused in
Through its depths, dismal, grasp
For your relief:
Each thought is winged uplift.
Petrel's, adrift
O'er that which churns, coldly
Composed of gr...
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Categories: seaward, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

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