Short Spume Poems

Cormorant and I
Share tempestuous moment
Wide-eyed ocean watch
Safely removed from spindrift
Waves, spume and spray batter shore. ...

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cool waves
crest golden sands
white spume tickles naked
toes, as I stroll in silence by 
the shore



precious
memories of
family holidays
children flown the nest, now I walk
alone...

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As centuries pass
The seas advance 
To take away the land. 
Lost to the waves
The ancient graves 
Reside below the sand. 

Cliffs that crumble
Remains lay humble
Eroded by the brine. 
The final tomb
To meet the spume
Clings to the shoreline....

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Waves
and spume
tickles toes
as I paddle
on the shore ... reliving my childhood days

Sweet memories come flooding back to me
a tiny tot
having fun
in the 
sea

Tetractys This Poetry Contest
Charles Messina


4/28/19...

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CROCODILE  SURF



Curving surf and plunging
Breakers  open up and and snarl over
And slap down closed,
Crest of breaker a jagged rim
Dripping long fangs of water
Before snapping shut,
And the surfer disappears
Threshing helplessly in the spume
Of the jaws and the foaming saliva....

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Where once I saw the sun
flare like a peacock,
fish bones hiss
on a shale whipped beach,
banshee’s are dredged from sandy graves,
spume slaps nests of air.

Waves boom inside my beached ribs.
I am so full of sadness
that I hear myself mew
like a gull in a gale
when it tumbles
as flightless as stone....

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Sprung buds strung along branches burst into bloom
Unsung, a tad early, unheralded sly petals plume
A spurt and squirt of color to break winter's gloom and doom
Like the dabs of paint squeezed from tubes on brushes abloom
To paint a mantle cloak, donned each Spring, as a many-colored costume
To blot out Winter's chills, before coat is shed in Summer's cauldron spume...

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Fast running waves,
each crest sweating moonlight.

Crushed pebble beach
shape-shifting
pinioning froth to night sky

A saline wind dunks,
strands of spume latched to flotsam,
all conjured out of a fleeting.

I recall now
that I was not there to record all this.
I was elsewhere writing it down.

I hear a mechanical corrosion
of ‘since’ and ‘when’ and ‘then.’...

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I scratch symbols out of a matted beard.
Fingertips as smooth as wave-worn pebbles
rattle on an invisible shoreline,
the sound is a kind of speech
a language that only spume and spray understand.
Seven days a week I listen;
rarely does the water translate
any intelligible meaning.
Nevertheless images rise
like dead half-eaten fish.
I pick at the bones and wish
for more impossible things....

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Breakers crashing upon the shoreS
Under the crested waves' motioN
Bursting with their salty aromA
Brimming over with white spumE
Leaving harmful pellets of plastiC
Everywhere homo insipiens will gO

Everywhere homo insipiens  will gO
Leaving harmful pellets of plastiC
Brimming over  with white spumE
Bursting with their salty aromA
Under the crested waves motioN
Breakers crashing upon the shoreS....

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Whispers drowned by ocean's sound
seagulls flying, space abound,
oceanic scent within the air
dance of waves in all its flair.

Somnambulant shadows 
under moonlit skies
castaway's drunken delirium
misty morning's stare sunrise.

Silent murmurs,
majestic surrounding never ending,
green-blue's, white spume.
beautiful and powerful language.

Silence, don't say a word,
I need to hear the ocean's song....

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Pompeii 

Amid ashes pumice lay
Life in cinders Pompeii in disarray
Vesuvius plumed angry swell
Archeologists unearth deathly knell

Volcanic vomit ample spume
from sunlight golden to darkened gloom
Roman bathing in waters pure
Nimbus of fires blazing coiffure

In 79 AD it's eruption did occur
No time to flee , No time for prayer
For sure a wrong analogy of mine
but this 'Furnace' it froze in time 

thank you...

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Resolutions

R esults produce.
E xplicit mandates entrust change.
S uch initiatives envisage verses.
O rders decide for the positive.
L atter resolves spawn promises change made.
U ttermost thinking breathe.
T errible judgments spume.
I deal dwells portray positively.
O fficial orders redefined.
N eurological consults install.
S atisfactory results that follow.



2/7/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©...

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Blue sky, honey rays, 
sonorous voice of the sea.
Waves silently creep
leaving slight spume, then slowly
draws a breath, taking footprints
into its deepness.


2/18/2020

Let The Pens Flow - Tanka Poetry Contest Oh No! Forgot and added an extra line in the verse .. 5 7 5 7 7 5 ( an  N/A  ) But that is ok, I got some fantastic inspiring complements and I thank you all for your kind words 
Sponsored by: Jenish Somadas...

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moored hulls sink lower
in a rising haze

as ghost ships
they slowly surface
when the sky
finds a patch of clarity

again and again
the vessels slip
in and out of the mist
only to come back painted by
distant seas
farther horizons
that ship deep-sea spume
over anchored hulls

wet ropes creak
rigging rattles
as a foaming fog washes
over prows

unseen gulls call
summoning visions
of whitecaps last seen
in a shipwrecked
china teacup...

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Today, all is landscaped by mist.
North, South, East, and West
                all are one floating sea.

The hedgerows are reefs,
a familiar tree-line
seems like a gray cliff face.
My own face
feels as if swept over
                          by a tidal spume.

Now a kitchen radio is turned on,
a truck blasts its air-horn, a child shouts,
and as if the sun were only now roused
to scatter ocean dreams
with a newly rinsed
                        and blotting wind....

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a spurge, a spruce, a creamy spume
of Moscow mayday tree in bloom,
a crush, a diffidence innate
to youth, a long-awaited date,
a me, excited, nervous, pale,
a garden seat, a nightingale,
a slice of sun in strongest tea 
of dusk, a braid, a trendy tee,
a checkered knee-length skirt, a you, 
a sigh, another one, a few
looks at the wristwatch, an abyss
of desperation, a… a kiss. 


05.30.2019
Going Deep Within An Emotion Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Sheri Fresonke Harper...

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