Short Landlocked Poems

Dreams of ocean sea,
        landlocked like the Kokanee
              under surface breeze......

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‘She was haunted by the call of the sea;
Wishing to dive forever stay under. ‘
Truly that woman has always been me,
Dying to wake from a landlocked slumber....

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Their youngest boy, they call him one-eye Jake
He was as means as a black mamba snake
Cursed like a landlocked sailor
Took a job as a county jailor
Made all the money a good thief can make.

written October 28, 2021...

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Seagull's cry---a cruel lie---           
     where desert sand o'erlays the land 
          'neath rocks and sage.
                  
So far from home, he's doomed to roam
     where ocean thoughts all come to naught
         in arid rage....

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RISE
iNtEnSiTy Of BeAtS, trapping hailstorm in landlocked gorge.
nose flARes as I procure brisk air, balloon deflates at dread’s
FALL

4/14/2020
Let the Pens Flow - Antonym Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Jenish Somadas
Syllables: 1/14/14/1...

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Longing for the sea,
the foam soaking my hair;
Longing for the  breeze, 
to carry my song on the air;
For gills and a tail
I’d gladly give this life;
Longing for the day 
I don’t have to come back; 
Longing for a time 
the Sun is my only clock,
Aching to be  
no longer land locked....

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LANDLOCKED

landlocked we stalk past pain perimeters
guns rest roughly slung on shoulders hung
closing behind growling within
scoping targets empty claim
weapons lead worlds astray
cast our sins away
lords of nothing
eyes survey
stark hearts
lost



© Kim van Breda—24 September 2015...

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All Broken, Cracked, Dead, 
Everything Frail. Gory Hell I 
Just Keep Landlocked Making 
No Optimism. Preachers Quote 
Relentlessly Suspending Time 
Underground. Villains With 
Xenophobe Yearning Zen.  


Xenophobe- one who fears, 
mistrusts, and dislikes 
foreigners or what is strange or 
foreign....

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Only by accident you 
will find life in 
the dead elephant.

We start soul-searching 
to uncover, 
the hidden path to- 
landlocked sea of poachers 
of ivory truth.

Infant cries, sleeping 
in grass, wait for the 
blossoms of spring. 
Like a panther 
a red cloud descends 
to kill the moving, play 
without pain.

The nightfall,
when you will discover 
yourself in grief 
and wait for the sun.


Satish Verma...

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A leisurely coffee, conversation
that barely makes it across
the table before slipping back
into silence, shapes passing by
shadowed in the blurr 
of their growing distance.

They gather at ten, old men,
landlocked yet in their mind’s aegean,
letting out their long nets
beneath a vast shopping center ceiling 
arching over them like an endless sky,
horizons drawing them further out 
to where, one day, they won’t return....

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she had a dream
of seaside escapades
and seabreeze in her hair
this little girl of three
landlocked
utterly determined
to make her dream come true
with a fistful of crayons
she brought to life her pony





Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~A CHILD'S WORLD~ 2020

AP: 3rd place 2021, Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on March 2, 2022 for contest A BRIAN STRAND FREED VERSE sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 1ST

Posted on January 17, 2020...

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