Short Briny Poems

The briny water
Slowly drifiting down her face
Was a cleansing tear...

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ducts swell with warm streams
silty briny residue
eroded dreams clog...

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sun briny, windy

toes wiggle wet and sandy

beach smooth, waves ready !...

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The Tide hits your toes
sending shivers down your spine,
briny sense of Peace....

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waves batter life's shoal
briny remnants heart doth troll
bleached soul's shattered toll...

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Hard strike on my line
Flash of light in briny gloom
Sizzling in the pan


By Robb A. Kopp...

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ocean nordic breadth
briny waves foam quilt sea cliffs~
seagull’s hungry squawk


12/6/2023...

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I push my feet blissfully 
into smooth sun-kissed grains of sand.
Taking my feet abruptly from their fun,
 down to the shore I run.
Warm briny sea caresses them; 
they splash like happy children....

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I push my feet blissfully 
into smooth sun-kissed grains of sand.
Taking my feet abruptly from their fun,
 down to the shore I run.
Warm briny sea caresses them; 
they splash like happy children....

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waves flow to the shore
tide rises
sea shells on the sand


a briny sea
undulates in rhythmic waving motion
slowly ebbing away


October 18, 2021
Lune (Mixed Pair) Contest
Sponsor: William Kekaula...

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seagulls weave blue sky
lost in its briny cool breeze~
scan the navy sea

a blaze summer sun 
shade neath scattered umbrellas ~
by lingering prints


6/23/2020

Summer Haiku's Poetry Contest . 
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin...

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If you should see an otter
Disappear beneath the water,
Whether in a brook
Or in the briny sea,
Just let me say, it's best you
Don't call a lifeguard to the rescue,      
For in the water is exactly                      
Where an otter oughter be....

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Gentle winds, soft landings
Never ignore the things 
That are free…
Among which  is:
The papery rustle 
Of Dragonfly wings
The morning sunrise
The smell of blossoms
Evening sunsets…and
The briny breeze
That wafts from the sea
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Alabaster wings in celestial blue,
glissading on the surface of winds.
Stalking the shore, aerial view,
for luckless winkles and crabs —
briny delicacies.
Lightly ascending
on tapered wings,
seagull sails -
graceful
white.



Susan Ashley
July 17, 2017...

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Tide ebbed from the sea,
sublime poetic fervor
charge and impetus
enhanced responsiveness leads
unbounded benevolence.
Briny deep, long crested waves
forever beating the shore.


3/27/2019

 Poetry Contest: CHALLENGE
Sponsored by: Martin Brown aka ManPoet...

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Galactic gales of worldly rows
Binds unto the carpets of earthly vows
Beyond the briny waters is the land of stars
Scintillating with vibrant thoughts 
Scattered hopes of all sorts
The waves that follow the creative salves
Roars and rises to nourish the new calves...

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Blue
waters 
glistening,
aqua appeal!
Seashore greets breakers
flaunting jaunty white caps,
bringing briny scents in tow
whiffing of ocean heritage.
Well-dressed waves looking wealthy today,
sun sowing splashy diamonds on the sea!


Susan Ashley
July 16, 2017...

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I follow the path to the sea, watching the gulls fly high above.  The sun is balmy in the noon day but still it warms my skin.  I inhale deep the salty air, briny, sweet smells of the sea.  I stand perched and stare at the beauty of this scene until I cannot stand no more....

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worn-out dreams and briny tears
 
hung upon the moon
 
sorely borne from long-held fears
 
they lit the night of June
 
with silvered light of sour notes
 
that echoed from her soul
 
and fell as rain to lie in moats
 
around the life he stole...

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Tides pull you into waters clear,
cupping both hands, she tastes
your pain. 

Her lustrous foam draws briny tears;
waves sigh in seas retraced,
then wane.


By Rhonda Johnson-Saunders, 3/10/15
for Nette's Memento of Waters Contest
visual #4...

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Silent steps I take
Across the ocean floor
Cool abyssal plain
Bluescape peace

Gazing up
At the sunlit surface
A false freedom
Beckons…

The air above
Polluted with urgency
Foul with anger
Not so sweet anymore

Enveloped in briny womb
No longer ashamed
Submergence forever
Lungs back to gills...

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The ocean calls to me
a tango with the tide

The fever of a hurricane 
Just want to get inside

Waters dances with my feet 
I know why my heart beats 

Briny chill In the air
I have not a single care

swimming forever,
my feet now fins

Waves crash over me
never seen again

I rejoin the sea.....

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Abreast briny waters
Tides fill my eyes 
Churning color to black
Bashing against barriers 
A relentless crest 
Comes flooding back
It fills the cracks 
Then recedes
Exposing my shore
Full of vacancy
Iridescent nonetheless 
A trail of use to be to collect
For a bucket full
Of a beautiful mess...

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Materialistic pleasures are ripples in the water
       Seem elegant but vanish soon
Ripples will not prevail in the perpetual rain
      they get dispersed due to over flow
Non-materialistic pleasures are water in the sea
      Seem salty and briny but immortal
     They would never ever get drained...

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In fevered mornings, the salted sky
has halfway birthed her fiery sun.
All day the houses will guard the sea
with totems of windsocks and briny shells: 
a foamy shoreline where bones of 
dreams and shards of thoughts
are laid to rest, reclaiming the child
you were, spread-eagled, creature 
to God, God to creature....

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