Short Cresting Poems

cresting waves
carry waning sunlight--
footprints vanish...

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cloudless sky, lacerated by an azure blade, cresting and falling...

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swollen cresting waves
against the azure sunset ~
dolphin silhouettes
...

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electric abdominal sensation
pendulum’s cresting action…
gravity’s attraction...

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Cresting of waves and
Spiritual stillness
Each strikes of
This sacred bell of time...

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If your heart is open 
and true

Your grief is as deep
as your love

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)...

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Knowing today is the best day of your life
—a terrible thing to know

(To Philip Seymour Hoffman: April, 2021)...

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A sunset majestic beyond compare
  A rainbow arcing in mid-air
A crescendo of waves foaming, cresting
  Nature's canvas so powerfully arresting...

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Shining through the light on the water gleaming
Golden jewelry sparkles like diamonds cresting
Waves o’er waves of tapestry woven, breathing
Ocean is living...

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creamy cheesecake inches deep  
red strawberry crowned,
mounds of whipped chocolate fluff  
cresting almond cake,  
maple pecan pie
sticky crunch-
yum!

Copyright, October 27, 2014
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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She dreams of burning forests,
Waves of flames cresting the earth.
All what once was...ablaze.

A firestorm of visions,
Haunt her soul from ease.
Nestled in these ashes,
Rests the end time...predictions....

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Summer lover's moon shyly enclosed in 
silvered clouds,
a honeyed recollection,
white caps of memory waves,
cresting, curling dreamily,
a tide under eve's star canopy,
coupled in enchantment, 
entwined on the beach. ~...

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steady warming sun

                             shimmering waves cresting spray

                                        flock of flying fish







September 24th 2018

For Julia Ward's 
Haiku in the Tropics 
Poetry Contest...

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Breaking waves
Cresting in chaos
Crashing upon the shore
Softening
Amid the frothing surf
Slowly softening
Retreating
Slipping beneath
The unseen rise
Of another
Forming wave
Destined
To redefine
The hard contours
Of resistance
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Things beyond description 
Deemed poetic lay….
‘A golden oak
On an October day’
‘The perfect form
Of a cresting wave’
‘The laughter of toddlers
As they run and play’
‘A Mozart concerto
  —in its timeless way’

(Dallas Texas: June, 2018)...

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boat
hovers
pelican
sails on the air 
effortless ~ like the freely floating ship 
cresting above the curling ocean wave
smoothly showing
perfectly
designed
craft



10-2-2020
Double Tetractys 4 Poetry Contest
3rd place...

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In the desert I sleep,
under the sun it creeps,
slithering in the dune,
Cresting waves in its wake,
I dream crimson dreams,
Of red light twisting,
like a serpent it eases,
on the earth it pleases,
over my burning body,
fangs strike plunging,
forever desert dreaming....

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When dreams fade away
The heart is lost
To the sea of cold permanence

As cresting waves
Carry, but to no destination

The eternal sea
That allows the misery of the heart
Must end, breaking on the rocks

Allowing the dreams 
To hopefully make land and survive...

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Presence dissolved
Cresting watery fingers awash
Impressions in the sands
This cynical acquaintance
Running away
From flawless memories
In their laughter’s echo
I sat and watched
As my childhood castles
Were drank away
By the Atlantics thirst
Everyday one summer...

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The wave rolled in on a gentle wind
   A promise born, soon to begin
The plea of love across your face
   My heart's tide did surely grace

Cresting now, this fulsome wave
   With deepest eyes of blue engraved
Breaking softly on the shore
   Of love eternal, evermore...

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galloping waves cresting the shore
wild white horses riding
blue sea
nature’s beauty that I adore
tides ebbing and flowing
to me

Visual 3
Jan Allison
7th March 2015
Contest - Memento of Water – Nette Onclaud
Syllables checked with how many syllables 8,6,2,8,6,2...

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River boats

drop down into sunken fog,

return
as buoyant as swimming seagulls.

A deep diving sky
spindrifts the hulls,
decks now ship airy waves
from far away seas.

The craft ride high and low
on this muted swell,

a cresting last beheld

in a shipwrecked China      teacup....

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It was after the times of mules
Irish slave contracts
Inside of the states of minds
Of those who fled from effort
Abandoning life in infancy
Creating devastation
And fermenting grew, cresting above skies
Literatures from slaves
Unwilling to begin Roman tongues
A time before the Republic...

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DESCENT OF THE GEESE

defying levitation,
they wangled wings in unison-
breaking over the cresting waves
as sundown beckoned loneliness

war, starvation, hypocrisy, 
nothing of man mattered,
only encumbered rest was real

no expectation, no disappointments
secure together, rest, assured...

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Behold the blue seaswell
That lifts itself
A glassy morning
Out of the sea's heaving breast:
The open ocean wave
That draws itself
Across the rock reef
Cresting toward the fine pitch
That exhilirates the very air
With a perfect  mane of spray
                                         -Big Sur...

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