Short Beached Poems

Seagull swim in sky
Ocean drowns tan sandcastle 
Beached black whale dying...

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driftwood beached
in helpless tumbling water...
skeletons legacy

4/17/13...

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CATCH YA LATER

my bitter cold blues
“it’s all in your head,” he says
then kicks a beached clam...

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humanity beached 
pink flesh broiling in the sun...
fish and chips with oil
  
*seasoned with summer...

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finding beached
his own message
in a bottle



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Posted on April 21, 2019...

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lo, damp abandon
yon snowy dead pan owl hoots
on dry sand castles

4/21/20
Written words James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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Two mighty boats beached
End of voyage reached
Captains’ judgement call
Rust consumes them all
Run aground and caught
Well-laid plans for naught


#1...

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the calm 
after the storm ~
     beached driftwood



Published in The Trillium Haiku Group Anthology's AFTER THE FALL, 2021

Posted on August 22, 2018...

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D. Guzzi CT USA lost off 
Fiji lifeboat beached atoll sharks
Spared rescued by islanders
Contact son San Fran CA
Love, takes ashes home
Beautiful trip
Live long and 
Prosper
Ma....

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emotions sailing in choppy waters
onward to isles of seclusion
passion dinghies released 
seeking anchors of expression
securely beached
exploring wisdom shores
...

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The wheel of the ship  
spinning 'round
out of control, the
captain below deck
spitting vitriol, first
mate and deckhands
at loose ends, no
orders or goal...
all coming undone
beached on a
barren rocky atoll...

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Pink skies infest the starry dark.
Pest sprays reject the fireflies’ spark.
Bald eagles chopped by green windmills.
Right whales lie beached as sonar kills.
Rage that I can no longer view,
Bids my sense of wonder adieux....

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Beached the sun-bleached bottoms
of small boats color the sand scape,
safely turned bottoms-up
far from the high tide’s line.
They lay in wait beneath the teardrop rain,
huddled from the bay’s breath, they hide.
It is only the lap of languid wave that bides.



Boats Beach, Eastham Mass 2012...

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Into the distance tracks of life reach
Worn rails from the rounds and rounds
Looking back on images bleached
Soon beached to then run aground

For as we travel life's tracks
Greened scenery caresses both hearts
But sadly life doesn't run so smooth
Just like tracks they can soon apart...

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Too many indigo tears

The Ocean
hides them beneath
her broad blue checkered apron

White capped waves skirt across
a memory
an act
drowned
long forgotten

Vomiting up
salt and brine
debris that won’t
stay down

Resurfacing, beached
upon
tomorrow


An
old shoe
someone once
wore...

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Whales live in the ocean
So it's pretty rare to find
A whale beached in Iowa
But it doesn’t mind

It swims in the Cedar
Takes care of the cattle
Stock breeder
Wildcat hill

Eventually, it’ll return home
Back to the plains
Iowa is all he’s ever known
The land of Ames

In Memory Of William Marshall Ferguson...

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Lost What I Adored	
My soul has been transformed
Lost what I most adored
Now I’m much too bored
I feel like a beached whale 
That swells upon the shore
Now life seems like a bloody gore
As a child I hoped for so much more
I feel as if an angry lion has roared
My flesh he has torn
My life’s filled with so many chores...

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Where once I saw the sun
flare like a peacock,
fish bones hiss
on a shale whipped beach,
banshee’s are dredged from sandy graves,
spume slaps nests of air.

Waves boom inside my beached ribs.
I am so full of sadness
that I hear myself mew
like a gull in a gale
when it tumbles
as flightless as stone....

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BEACHED
                           broken
                        abandoned

                     to the cruel sea
                  which unrelentingly
         scatters driftwood on the shore

" where beachcombers each day explore"

    Sponsor Joseph May.
    Picture number one.
    6 / 12 / 2022.
    Howmanysyllables.com...

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When None Command

By surging sea and force of wind
A tattered vessel floundered in
Where coral reef performed the rest
In ripping wide her wooden breast.
From timber scream to cracking mast
Her form dismembered to the last
And on the waves her pieces reached
An aftermath of slumber, beached.
She is a silent reprimand
To those who sail
When none command....

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My auntie who lives down in Bude
Would always sunbathe in the nude
She looked like a beached whale -
Her fanny’s off the scale
This eyesore should never be viewed!

When children saw her on the beach
Is that a beached whale they would screech
Alas its just  Franny
Showing off her huge fanny
She can’t be described as a peach!

06/04/21...

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In the sand
	plastic beach
	balls beached
l
 e
  a
   c
    h
     e
      d
into the sand

cleanup
	summer season
	footsteps
			ping
		a		on the sand
	e
l

ecologists
	preached 
	beseeched
			o u t r e a c h e d
to teach the reason
of the sand

f
 e
  l
   l
	flat
	deaf ears
the sea searched
		screeched 
a silent tear
for the sand
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He decided that he wanted to be Welsh;
this vague idea took shape in the shapeless.

All the Big Mac’s he had ever consumed
began to alter his form.
they changed him into a cute
small white Beluga whale,
being a privileged white man
it made a kind of sense.

‘No’ he shouted
into an eager and responsive universe,
'I said Welsh!'

Later a Welsh speaking whale
was found beached
at an outdoor swimming pool....

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Upon the oceans rising swell
Albatross, penguins, seals as well
On the surface, or down below
For eight months the life they’ll know

Natures call to procreation!
And miles from their destination.
Until that call, life was so slow
For eight months the life they’ll know

For most when destinations reached
Most babies born where mothers beached
Done, back to sea where they’ll grow
For eight months the life they’ll know...

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I have walked
              on the grinding edge
of my wind-sharpened shores,
              have talked of myself
beside the surf of myself.

I am grown thin in the service of
        speaking thoughts out loud.

Where the shingle washes
beached starfish,
long-drowned words uncoil
                to raise my voice
above a roaring silence.

Still, an in-coming tide
swallows and forgets,
        swallows and forgets....

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