Short North Sea Poems

from an in-ground spring
to open arms the north sea…
joyous the river

© Harry J Horsman 2021...

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Sea and sky in gunmetal grey
Cold as liquid nitrogen
The salty tang of ocean spray
The ozone and the oxygen
Caught in the lash of a flash downpour
Our winter walk on a North Sea shore






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THE SPRING NORTH SEA HURRICANE

                          Pussy willow slyly licked her paws
                          While heartless winds
                          Battered haughty ships into the sea


Victoria Anderson-Throop
2013
Valdez, Alaska...

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Home

Lace filtered dawn, falling softly
Duvet of down, brush lightly

Drifting, timeless, floating here
North Sea breeze, hint of ocean air

Scent of green, languish awhile
Sunday at home, Irish mist smile

Remembered dream saved in heart
A soul remains worlds apart

Stephen (Stoic)...

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Sometimes
When the northern winds 
Blow cold and still
And St. Elmo’s fire 
Blazes in the night sky

Sometimes
When flying fish
Scurry about the darkness 
Over the cold North Sea
Casting dolphin shadows
On the icy waters

I think of you
Thinking of me
And wonder
Why the sea
Has taken you
Away...

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Her mouth fountains from the gare
 nudges the north sea,branches left
   upon my town, i can only stare
     the views that greet me so adeft.

     The River Tees holds a place in my heart.





Paul Beadnall.

Sponsor Brian Strand 
Contest Name VERSE any theme/form max of 8 lines...

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The soil sailed by the North Sea wind into road traffic all,

as oldies remember their parents, grand parents talk of 

being transferred to England's little Dust Belt of the Thirties;

while the fast foreign labour surprised by the gentle English 

weather getting annoyed with one and all, its just like home after all....

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THE NORTH SEA (Satis Shroff)


The sea fascinates the artist in you,

It's dramatic setting,

With its ceaseless waves.



Strong winds are pushing

Curly clouds in the vast sky,

The heavy waves roll,

In the bluish-grey seascape,

Emitting a long line of spray,

Above the white froth.



© Satis Shroff. All rights reserved...

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COPING WITH AGE

Age can steal our running legs
And drain our mighty arms
but it doesn’t change the great North Sea
or dim its vibrant charms

The winter sea has strength and grace
Its power shades of grey
Blue mists will kiss the faintest hearts
North winds blow aches away

Raw nature is magnificent
True courage does not age
A hearty soul does not count years
but must avoid a cage...

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Gallant Scotland's Fame 

From Atlantic to North Sea
Ours is land again
With Europe’s largest oil reserves,
Our country again free. 

All for Scotland’s freedom stand
Marching in national kilts,
Bagpipers are playing new hymn –
Saluting the country’s rebirth. 

Caledonia – Scotland my country
With blue flag as skies above us,
White cross as innocence of Christ,
Independent, faithful and free....

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NORTH SEA WINTER


teasing dawn weeps winter fog
day's light prances swiftly by
ice floes in the blood of men
     prism nights shatter 
  



Victoria Anderson-Throop
12/01/2012
Natural Dodoitsu Contest




          THE SERENGETI

Zebra herds nudge babes along
Low slung sun burns shaded eyes
Water pools hide fish from hawks
          Peace of paradise

Victoria Anderson-Throop ©
12/1/2012
Natural Dodoitsu Contest...

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I stood upon the ocean's bay shore
And with a fragile reed I traced upon
"Bobby I love thee."

The mad waves rolled by and blotted out
The fair impression.
Frail Reed! cruel wave!
Treacherous sand!
I'll trust no mere!

But with a giant hand,
I'll pluck from Scotland's
Frozen shore his tallest pine,
And dip its top into the crater of North Sea
And in the high and banished heavens I'll
Write: Bobby I love thee.

And I would like to see
Any doggoned wave wash that out....

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