Short Shoal Poems

Circling formation
The geese begin their decent
Skiing across shoal...

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languid brow seeps low
weeping o'er desolate shoal
ocean salt stings wound...

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

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Star crossed love 
 a rocky shoal
Distant halves
—a different whole

(The New Room: March, 2023)...

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The ebb tide's 
     rhythmic swishing,
     as it leaves the soft, 
     sandy shoal,

     calms down the 
     simmering turmoil
     troubling this weary, 
urban soul !...

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In the Weft of Fait
David J Walker

my life means nothing
without courage
my beliefs are fallow
without faith
my soul falls shoal  
to knowledge 
if left to the weft of fait...

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The  mermaids  ball  music  still  lingers .

Swordfish  Fred  and his shoal  of  sweet singers

Had  a  whale  of  a  time

On  the octopus  slime

Caressed  by  their  salty  fish-fingers ....

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I will not wade with you in ocean shallows

Love must run far deeper than a shoal

Having enough passion to make me blind

A love rivaling the grandest of hallows

Heal my heart and make it whole

Drown me in fervid depths of your mind...

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Sails upon my planet
A ship of cooling granite
Across the depths of time and space
Barely do I leave a trace

White caps and troughs erase my wake
Time will heal my neighbors ache 
I leave no crease upon earth’s shoal
Sails affixed to my soul

11/11/2019...

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...  in the rhythmic swishing 

          of the ebb tide hesitantly 

               leaving the sandy shoal,

                    something there hushes 

                         down  the turmoils, tremors

                              of the tormented, weary soul ......

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In the rhythmic swishing

   of the dawn's ebb tide 

      that hesitantly leaves 

         the soft, sandy shoal,

            something there hushes  

               down the cold turmoil, 

                  the trembling, the fear

                     of the weary, urban soul....

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Pushy people-person, little silver fish
Inspiring idealist, with an iridescent swish
Swimming up the river, flowing all the way back down
Colour loving creature, too deep and you will drown
Ever-seeking others, happy in the shoal
Stop and think, when on the brink, are you happy in your goal

31/03/2021...

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By the fire I sit tending
While the day and night are blending
Flames lick at my very soul
On the pane the wind is moaning
Such a sad song now intoning
The day's living has brought its toll
Flames dying, embers glowing
Release at last , tears are flowing
Heart tossed upon a lonely shoal 


6/11/14
Barbara Gorelick
Flames contest...

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. for public domain

(Why some people walk dark alleys on Christmas Eve)

From stone battlements they stare
into blackness, each aware
of the dark night of the soul,

where so many loose their way
ere the breaking of the Day,
wash out to sea with the shoal.

Each a beam of Heaven's Grace,
ready offer God's embrace,
to mend broken lives, whole....

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NAUTICAL

a gale of tidal
nautical waves
nourish the shoal
hand palming moist
 as wet sands drain 
lungs fill with the
beauty of usage
swallowing it in
throat soaked 
spheres float above
discreetly    quietly
nonentity upstarts
avoid nautical
aquanimity
blind to sea
blind to see
clarity
of mind



© Kim van Breda—19 October 2015...

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Magnifying my King for all He does
Preaching the message today
Teaching man to hear Him
Crucifying myself to obey.

Sacrificing Himself for me
Swallowing no drugs
Sailing all my seas
Refreshing me with hugs.

Climbing every mountain
Scoring every goal
Sculpting my degree at college
Crossing every shoal.

Feeding me my every meal
Filling me with His zeal....

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Drought had entered 
into grass roots. 
It was a perfect landing. 

Sequential. You are  
chopped into pieces. A shoal 
of fish will make you disappear.   

The vacancy will call 
a choreographed entry. The 
descent will find a goldenrod.     

Snow-capped peaks. It 
is difficult to stay for a long time. 
You climb down. River remains dry.


Satish Verma...

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wild ...
I am the sea
no compass ... no conscience
cold, deep, capricious as the current
you are the shoal
I ache to break myself upon
the smooth sand beach
to draw me ...
weary, windswept
passionate and puerile
erotic ...
raw.






~ 1st Place ~  in the "Brian's Choice 6, Any Form, Any Theme" Poetry Contest, Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor....

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AUTUMN'S  BREATH



Leaves bathed here and there
As drenching light falls through the air.
See the cascade of the sunlight dreep
And pour through the leafy mantle’s sweep,
Washing the flutt’ring mass in light.
Like a shoal of herring spilling bright,
They turn and twist and whirl,
And leaves and canopy swirl.
Undergrowth veiled in a sunlit fold:
Myriad waves of floating gold....

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She lay upon the sand, lowtide-cold, salted-dry, dissheveled.
Tomorrow would have been her twenty first birthday,
unadorned, except for the seaweed in her brassy blonde hair.
Tip-toeing across her blue-gray cheek, a pink crab foraged,
unhindered, it dined on the whites of her eyes.
Only the sea and sand cradled her now.






First Published in Of Sun and Sand 2013
part Of a hurricane Press...

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Somewhere deep within my dreams
on the distant shores,
palm trees sway and sun shine beams;
waves from ocean doors.

Polynes’an beauties stroll
barefoot on the sand;
sea gulls wander on the shoal;
ocean breeze at hand.

This is but a reverie;
only in my mind.
Takes me there whenever be
feeling so confined.



June 19, 2018
Contest: Distant Shores
Sponsor: Robert Haigh...

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The Darkness, the Delirium, living a life of Sorrow
From the eons of Yesterday, through the eons of Tomorrow 

The Hell I live in, the Hell that envelopes my Soul
The anguish of lost LOVE, beating on the rocky Shoal

The loneliness of an uneventful loss of Forever Love 
The Hatred in my Heart, for the Living GOD : Above  

                    To be Cont. upon request

                  BARBARA JEAN I LOVE YOU...

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Isn’t it funny,
Fried eggs without legs can be runny
And when being fried they sound like the rain?
And wouldn’t you think,
A gentle drummer would blink if he knew that these things sound the same? 
What sounds like a team of Horses 
Galloping like rhythmic cosmic forces
A Roaring ocean as it crashes onto a rocky shoal?
Or what about
A strong wind with clout in the ear of the man as he goes on his stroll?...

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To strech beyond the endless sky,
with no baggage of guilt to carry,
spread the wings, just aspire to fly,
no wants, no cause for worry.

To plunge beneath the deepest ocean,
wearing a suit, a mask for sight,
tearing shoal of fishes' motion,
and bury many a trivial fight.

ironically,today I stand firm on the ground,
attempting to connect the future to past,
No wings to fly, No fins to drown,
wondering, am I in this place miscast ?...

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GOLDEN   SHOAL



Playful twinkling school of sunbeams
Fluttering  o’er  the rippling streams;
Shimmering shadow of sun golden  -
His skyglow’s moving liquid children.
Jostling, splashing  at joyful ease  -
A shining shoal enjoying the breeze.


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Note:

Ever watched the sun ripple off the waves of a river? This is what I saw this morning....

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