Go to the shoals
Seeing through dreams
spoil your eyes
Time is your enemy
calling your name
the sound is deep
the lasting stars
always the same ghosts
haunt you
go to the shoals
to the mer
unburden the choices you made
the thickets cant defeat you
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Categories:
shoals, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Ekphrasis On Isles of Shoals
silent sea from afar
glazed in admiral and arctic blue
softly shifting to pointilism
as it rushes to the rocky shore
whilst sky in faded ivory and teal
spells prelude to April rain
rugged rocks in wild brush strokes
like dripping ink
of British tan and dark khaki
blended in tawny and ecru
are luminous glossy gems
cascading from celestial source
like my streaming teardrops
as I
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Categories:
shoals, appreciation, art, nature, sea,
Form: Ekphrasis
Muscle Shoals
Incantations swirl in the muddy waters and summon those who hear it to leave their homes and come to the rivers edge.
They immerse themselves in something no one can touch, but cannot help but feel.
This is the place where dreams die, only to be reborn into legends.
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Categories:
shoals, music,
Form: Free verse
Shelling of Shoals
SHELLING OF SHOALS
oval souls
bleached out pearls
shelled stone hearts
obscured cryptic
undercurrents
seaslime backslides
enticing
Mermaids vice
whiteskull prey lays
shelved on shoals
seaweed eaten
greentail beaten
tidalpools black
sailor coldhole
burial ground
© Kim van Breda—9 December 2015
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Categories:
shoals, metaphor, ocean,
Form: Free verse
A Lady From Shoals
There once was a lady from Shoals
Tenderly tending to her foals
Uttered, “What's that I hear?
Another post, oh dear
No way to keep up with Jack's goals!
Yup! She's referring to happy Jackers
Churning out poems he's a cracker
Really loves what he writes
But she has quite a plight
She needs more sleep in the sacker
She tries catching up with reviews
Informing
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Categories:
shoals, fun,
Form: Limerick
A Lady From Shoals
There once was a lady from Shoals
Tenderly tending to her foals
Uttered, “What's that I hear?
Another post, oh dear
No way to keep up with Jack's goals!
Yup! She's referring to happy Jackers
Churning out poems he's a cracker
Really loves what he writes
But she has quite a plight
She needs more sleep in the sacker
She tries catching up with reviews
Informing
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Categories:
shoals, funny,
Form: Limerick
The Shoals
Walking, talking and skipping stones by the shoals
Caress, hug me tender while shining bold eyes
Sparkle, playful promises until fall fades
Sensibility flew
Example: Red cheeked boyfriends tenderly kiss me sweet mouthed
under Boulder coverlets winter springtime
hug me naked laughing & telling girl friends
gossip til autumn
Translated
RED cheeked BOY/friends TEN/der/ly KISS me SWEET mouthed
UN/der BOUL/der COV/er/lets WIN/ter
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Categories:
shoals, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, me, sweet,
Form: Sapphic stanza