Whispers 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
From the Quay
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w i s p s l
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seaward
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
Sailors' 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
The 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
Art 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
The 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
Maritime 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
Masked 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
Stoicism 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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