Short Brackish Poems
Short Brackish Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Brackish by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Brackish by length and keyword.
Hard by brackish river's edge
danced the tasty minnow
angling past hook, line and sinker
~ agility's marionette, little stinker
Categories:
brackish, dance, fish, river,
Form:
Rhyme
segment of the sun
lemandarin, semi-black
‘midst toasty branches
floats flamingos, flaming pink
in lagoon’s brackish parquet
*hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon
Categories:
brackish, art, bird, imagery,
Form:
Ekphrasis
River & Brook
Once a river asked a little brook
Never did it occur to you to be as big
as the massive sea?
No, replied the little brook
It's better to be small and sweet
rather than big and brackish.
by mazHur
Categories:
brackish, desire, faith, happiness, life, peace, philosophy, spiritual,
Form:
Couplet
Who did plod through the fresh laid sod
What plunderous rogue could be so treacherous
When did the fresh, bright mane garner brackish stain
Where did the stealthy herbivore dump digested core
Why did that silly hare his gastronomical fare share
Categories:
brackish, funny
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
The pond is brackish
a smear of lichen,
a low haze.
Water birds dabble in their sleep.
Soon the sun
will dash across a drop of dew
to burst dams of light.
Wings will shake off
dwindling shadows,
slap the wet air
until the water awakes.
Categories:
brackish, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
a bed of stones unloosed to spill from its path
through fresh waters flow to the distant sea
laving pebbles from its silty rough wrath
from rivers fresh to brackish brine's debris
the journey ends where it began its ascendancy
drifting as the impetus of tidal destiny
Categories:
brackish, earth, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
2-24-10
I'm a castaway
On a ship far away
Everyone is gone,
And I'm the only one.
Ever so slightly, the boat drifts on...
Drenched in the brackish sorrow,
I wait for nothing but the morrow
If you care - turn your eyes to the sea
There is all the tears I have shed for thee.
Categories:
brackish, adventure, allegory, dedication, depression, hope, imagination, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
The pond is brackish
a smear of lichen,
a low shaded haze.
Water birds dabble in their sleep.
Soon the sun
will dash across a drop of dew
bursting dams of light.
Wings will shake off
the dwindling shadows
slap the pond and call
until the water awakes.
Categories:
brackish, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
I fought the good fight, yet still I lost
and you stood in brackish silence
with bitter reward in briny eyes
proffering spiny frowns
shoulders crumbled with aging ache
and brow dimpled with sour failure
I staggered dragging the last crumbs
through the madness of a blue funk
Categories:
brackish, angst, betrayal, emotions, feelings, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
'Tween winter scenes of sparkling ice
and summer vales abloom
Interjects late Autumn leaf-less trees
brackish ground, dullish skies of gloom
A heart can only bear so much
passion's yearnings stilled
Heaven, let your snowflakes fly
~ remove from us the chill
Categories:
brackish, passion, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
Sail, oh ship across the seas
Spread all hails and reveries
May your crafted frame drift as waters expand
Not one plank of wood proclaimed on land
Tales of brackish courage shall be told
Excited male minds in search of gold
To the New World soon to be in view
Of land untouched beyond the great old blue
4-7-13
Categories:
brackish, adventure, allegory, beauty, courage, devotion, fantasy, journey,
Form:
Rhyme
Swallowed the sun
in attempts to
free the fire,
dimly lit universe
eclipsed 'neath
inescapable moons,
horizons hued of
brackish plastic tea's
apathetic indifference,
whilst darkly orbiting
fated solar systems
lost symmetry's balance,
ultimately, to relinquish their
vitally sanctioned powers
Categories:
brackish, abuse, corruption, crush, cry, earth, loss, world,
Form:
Free verse
I'd hoped the sea remembered me,
accepting me so easily,
as evening peaks and
the moon draws out the tide.
She wrapped me in her icy shift,
eyes closed shut I'm set adrift,
and through the wash
I'm tossed with every stride.
Caught within her brackish flow
my beating heart begins to slow,
Katrina's won,
the pain will now subside.
Categories:
brackish, natural disasters, death, sad, sea, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Snarled with moss sap
lime green and cocoa
burnt autumn carcass
still stained blood and red
Lake of desire
in silver and mirrors
skimming off thoughts
better left with the dead
Coldness of tree tops
reaching and wrought
lilting bent iron
broke open with breath
Photograph moment
stiff brackish and white
a portrait of every
dream in it's death.
Categories:
brackish, places, seasons, time, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
Swallowed the sun
in attempts to
feel the fire,
dimly lit universe
eclipsed 'neath
inescapable novas,
horizons were hued of
brackish tea's
indifferent sympathy,
whilst solar systems' fate
lost in darkly orbits
relinquished their presence,
as celestial bodies blurred
indulging supermoon's intense volatility
Categories:
brackish, fire, lost, moon, sympathy, universe,
Form:
Imagism
Bystanders of waves,
plethora of marine life;
Awe inspiring breach.
Bandeleros break
the grip of society;
Culture’s climate shifts.
Brackish voices sing
the blues inside the bayou;
Salty metaphors.
Background stars still shine
although they’re never in front;
Juxtaposition.
Back it up baby,
better give it all you got;
Befitting a boss.
Categories:
brackish, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Senryu
The pond is brackish
a smear of lichen,
a low shaded haze.
Water birds dabble in their sleep.
Soon the sun
will dash across a drop of dew
bursting dams of light.
Feathers will shake off
dwindling shadows,
wings slap the ponds surface
until the water awakes.
By then
my eyes will shine like silver moons;
I will write a poem
but not this one.
Categories:
brackish, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
A happy ending?
A camel and a dog
Tired of performing
Every night
At a circus.
Escaped.
The camel walked
On top of it
Sat the dog
guiding the camel.
They found the valley
Seen on a map
In the window
Of a book shop.
They lived happily
Till the died.
The dog´s tongue
Stung by a bee
Could not swallow.
The camel died too
When the water
In the lake
Got brackish.
Categories:
brackish, africa, courage,
Form:
Burlesque
Belly Boarding
By Tom
9-3-2019
In brackish water,
I first learned to swim.
It wasn’t by some plan,
But merely on a whim.
Being a San Diego boy,
Surf captured my eye.
On the spur of the moment,
I gave surfing a try.
The girl I was with,
Flashed a worried frown.
How would I get home
If you should drown
Showing a lot of concern for my safety huh.
Categories:
brackish, humorous,
Form:
Lyric
pie
delightful, delectable
appealing, appetizing, appeasing
sweetness, sugariness, acidity, acerbity
retching, regorging, regurgitating
brackish, brinish
fly
NB: This is purely my own reaction to eating flies. I understand it’s quite the delicacy to some. To each his own ... :)
14 January 2023
Delightful Diamante Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
brackish, culture, food, insect, senses, sweet,
Form:
Diamante
Azure panels fade; shed golden mane
Black, celestial portents mail links chain
Windows of heaven shaded darker strain
Foggy panes availing beams do disdain
Billowing, gray folds gilded tapestry doth stain
Burgeoning spouts brackish bile to drain
Reverberating drums strike dolesome refrain
Streaking bolts o'er tumult wax then wane
An eerie whistle howls announcing the careening train
Categories:
brackish, nature
Form:
Rhyme
The morning night thunder-shone
The bright stars fractured me
You in sudden surprise
Whirling in your misgivings
Baby gulls sit on our heads
And we weep forgetting to be merry
Broad is the scope of infinity
Meet me in brackish waters
Death to focus
Death to style
Come worming up to the hole
Peacetime summer reds
I can eat a clock and dream of orangutangs
Forgive these latches
Remove them
Remove them
Categories:
brackish, adventure, happy, inspirational, introspection, life, love, passion,
Form:
Free verse
An old chipped bowl.
A bent and jagged edged spoon.
Is all that she holds.
A flour sack dress,
Sandals made from an old tire,
are her daily clothes
Scrabbling at the dump,
Digging through trash to find life.
Bits of rot for food
Water from a drain,
Brackish, foul. Her only drink.
Only bath, the rain.
Who is this person?
We know her. For she portrays
the face of many.
Categories:
brackish, old, old,
Form:
Free verse
I think hell to be like a midnight grocery store
shelves filled with burning crucifix and pestilence.
Bloody-black water up to the necks of Half-souls.
Groping mindlessly in the dark...
searching for God in brackish hopelessness.
Flint and wooden carts colliding-
black water biters abound.
The checkout line is a turnstile
manned by faceless- dripping things
wielding holy punchers
eternally pocking your debit card soul.
while howling Next!
Categories:
brackish, hello,
Form:
Free verse
A spindling sun stream on bough's cloak spun
Melange of orange, yellow, red on foliage doth billow
Decadent Umbrella wields fluorescent shield o'er barren
fields
Glinted blades colorful shades heighten
Bright-cherry, Oak leaf gloss doth floss
Purple haze of each Sweet Gum lobe doth tase
Yellow fringes on White Oak fingers waxes with gilding
syringe
Orange Marmalade, Maple stars varnished with tinseling
spade
Blue Beech crusted folds dusted with a brackish rust
Categories:
brackish, seasons
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme