Short Indian Ocean Poems

SIGNALS!
 -Dharga Nagar Safa

One Sunday morning,

Indian Ocean withdrawn,

Animals ran fast into the thick jungle!...

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Greater than an English home,

Greater than a Japanese wife,

Greater than Lankan tea,

The great Indian sea!...

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THE  TWO!
  -Dharga Nagar Safa

The biggest democracy,

The great Indian Ocean,

The two alternates of India!...

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Her body was the sea 
Hips were the tides 
I used to ride my canoe in the morning 
The current always got rough at night...

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hand of coral islands
south of Sri Lanka
in the Indian Ocean
scuba diving
snorkeling. surfing,
dolphin watching
paddle boarding
i run to shake Maldive's glorious hand
eighty degrees average...

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The Mount Everest,

To the hight of Indian democracy,

India won the biggest democracy,

By small,small political defeats,

In the great Indian face,

Democracy and Indian Ocean,

The two eyes!...

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Raging tornadoes
devastate the entire land
destroying cities

Raging huricanes
plundering oceans and land
natures agony

Tsunami monster
Indian Ocean graveyard
deadly disaster


by Marty Owens March 9, 2012
For PD's contest Nature the Destroyer...

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A mist led Sunday morning,

Indian Ocean walked beyond the territories,

Dressed in black cloth like a no moon night,

Some Banks sank under the Tsunami waters,

Currency notes floating like paper boats,

Dressed in wetness,

Launders came and ironed all the flood washed notes!...

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May you rise like a Grecian hero, or Abraham's God
My other family weeps for Jerusalem; I murdered my education
Dreams had died under apartheid - I could not afford
The luxury of telling you these truths. Whispers of salvation
Cascaded in mists that promised to restore my Indian Ocean ......

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I am moving to the Maldives Islands
Where is that?
The middle of the Indian Ocean
What is there?
Temperatures between seventy-six and eighty-six degrees

Her parents were against it
It did not make sense
It was on the other side of the world
They visited her in December
And decided to stay
For the rest of their lives...

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Cerulean sky,
a dove with an olive branch
no marchpast below,
no guns,armymen waiting
patiently to receive it.

This dream in my mind,
flowers in armymen's hands,
single sky above,
only one race called-Human
for blood has just one colour.




© kash poet

*Will put this poem in bottles and float in the Indian Ocean.
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Whenever I shall look at the sea,
I shall remember you.
As you have given me the sea.
With all its depth and treasures.
I have been always near the sea.
And so you can’t be away from me.
I know we are soon to depart,
Going far away from each other.
But your Atlantic Ocean
Meets my Indian Ocean somewhere.
There is no boundary between the two,
They are together since the time immemorial....

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She turned ten;wasn't there
In love and war,all is fair
Father and daughter apart
Now off to a new start

She turned twenty, not present, if I say
Only an Indian ocean away 
Time lost; absence felt
My heart,my life had to melt

She turned thirty in the land of the free
Once again, without me
Can anything destroy my love for her ?
She turns thirty one today;Happy Birthday my daughter...

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When Corona came, I was on Reunion Island
Indian Ocean environs, nearer native South Africa ...
Transplanted, I have planted a garden, thrived

Without any research, butternuts survived
But in my pot and that of a friend's -
We grew Mint, Coriander, Hot Peppers, Lentils

The last was a challenge: to clean off the chaff
Transplanted, I planted again in Africa
Marigolds, Neem, Geranium, even white Lilies...

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The Indian Ocean is mean and deep
And careless sailing often death doth reap
It’s wild and vast a lonesome place to be
Needing to ply these waters has no glee
Angry relentless waves tall meters high
And troughs below seem to hide sails from sky
There’s no release from swirling spay and foam
Steersman needs lion’s heart to bring us home
Course is set by compass, not by sextant
Person who sent us here has a hellish bent....

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Reena gazed at the evening in the melting twilight
Oranges splattered in the sinking sunlight
Mandolins playing lovely diminuendo
A rustling breeze leaving messages
Night emerging from the passing evening
Toni enters with the smiling bouquet of the roses
Indian ocean accompanying him 
Cuddle calls the blue moon deep inside the hungry room



February 16, 2018
Romantic - Acrostic - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: John Hamilton...

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Lemuria
the lost continent
sunk beneath the Indian Ocean
like Atlantis
or was she Atlantis?

Helen Blavatsky used pseudoarcheology to incorporate her
into her mystical-religious doctrines
she claimed Lemurians were mystical
possessing powers of esp
able to communicate with extraterrestrials

her writings elevated the myth of Lemuria
an exaggeration of evidence
but proof of a brilliant imagination
a cornerstone of her philosophy of theosophy...

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