If My Ancestor Boarded The Titanic
...If he had boarded the frail proud lady,
My ancestor would have been a hysteric.
It would have been nothing new to him, though —
Boarding such a mighty vessel
With an unsinkable testimonial.
He h...
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Categories:
seawater, sea, travel,
Form: Free verse
drunk on fire
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Your seawater stirs in me where fire balances high on oil
You clasp my candlefire, wick's motioning coil —
A sweating kind of missing
A burned open kissing
The glass shared between us two
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Categories:
seawater, fantasy, fire, kiss, love,
Form: Couplet
The Three Primary Colors
..."Never paint except with the three primary colors [red, blue, and yellow] and their derivatives." Camille Pissarro
One primary color can make me feel mellow
when warm like honey heat...
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Categories:
seawater, color,
Form: Quintain (English)
Seaside Suicide
...The waves grow larger as they draw near
I just want to disappear
The white water crashes against the jagged rock shore
I really thought that there’d be more
The air is salty and the breeze sings...
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Categories:
seawater, death, depression, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Mind of the Heart
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Written: February 23, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
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Line of inquiry:
“feeling not thinking, soul with lov...
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Categories:
seawater, heart, muse,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Saturn Dance and Basaltic Magma
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Written: February 22, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama
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Skating upon Saturn rings, we dance in the empyrean,
while orbit...
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Categories:
seawater, appreciation, universe,
Form: Free verse
I know who I am
...I know, I know! Who I am!
I walk on through moonlit sand.
My Life, I claim, I claim as mine!
Through trials and tribulations of time.
Autumn's friends are satisfied that I am broken.
Yet I r...
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Categories:
seawater, anti bullying, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Collaberations
...1-5-25______________1-25-25
125_________________525
21__________________105
3___________________15
1___________________5
0,0163%
of hydrogen
extracted from seawater
Deu...
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Categories:
seawater, science,
Form: Bio
Ration
...Reality is rising out of the earth, mixing water with dirt, the children are playing in the mud from morning until sun down and the crisis in the street have disrupted the long awaited peace, and I p...
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Categories:
seawater, africa, america, bible, business,
Form: Narrative
Ration
...Reality is rising out of the earth, mixing water with dirt, the children are playing in the mud from morning until sun down and the crisis in the street have disrupted the long awaited peace, and I p...
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Categories:
seawater, africa, america, bible, business,
Form: Narrative
Eels of Kalapana's Queens Bath
..."Kalapana Queens Bath was a hole in the ground filled with brackish water (salty seawater mixed with fresh mountain filled rainwater) and host to living mysteries," ... by The Poet.
It...
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Categories:
seawater, beautiful, childhood, color, imagery,
Form: Quintain (English)
A future of hopeless despair
...You met me vibrant in my own world,
that was when you proposed your sick love,
Like a red-hot magma on seawater;
you blew open my brain and I could no longer think.
Now I ...
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Categories:
seawater, abuse, addiction, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Coconut Wireless
...I am flowered in the shade of bird wings
neath patch of deep sadness absent of clouds
beholden to loosen memories mist filtered
cell charged energies their liberal release
bars that s...
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Categories:
seawater, beautiful, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Whispers Skyline
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Written: May 20, 2024
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Siren stunningly sprung a sanguine sway
sailboat sheaths spread, and storms swell
splendid summer shoreli...
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Categories:
seawater, solitude, summer,
Form: Alliteration
Stiffness
...I try not to.
I blink anyway.
Like blinking out seawater.
It pours.
Goosebumps are uncontrollable.
Sitting for hours.
Sitting unnaturally.
But I can’t shift, only sway.
They command me to sta...
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Categories:
seawater, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
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