Beach Swimming Poems

“It’s life, just live with it!”
I said out loud on the beach 
That cold morning as we took the plunge. 
My friend and I on...

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We are all true wild swimmers 
You swim everyday and dive through the waves,
Look great in a swimsuit and your hairdo behaves. 
You have all...

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I like to walk beside the sea
I find that it relaxes me
That is, until I decide
To take a plunge into the tide

This comes after careful...

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Freedom 

I can go outside. 
I can go inside. 
I can climb a mountain, 
or swim in the sea. 

Freedom. 

I am free....

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New Shoes

"Grandpa, my shoes are too small, 
or maybe my feet or too big?"

"You are going to be ten foot tall, 
if you don't stop...

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The infinity edge is quite cool;
All those jellyfish are for the fools.
One thing ‘bout the water:
The sun makes it hotter,
Or it might be the pee...

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Inland swimming pool.

 Between two hills, a chasm, in winters rain fills up the gap
a lake is born, in May, June and the middle of...

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I'm ready if you are.
Steadily walking past wekas, canoes, sailboats, motorboats, along concrete paths, down ash-felt slopes
Across intersecting car trails
Drawn only by the beckoning beach.

Feet...

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A red moon greeted me as I arrived at Eilean Donan Castle,
late at dinner time, a heat wave wrecking zest
of our intended peaceful nightly rest.

It...

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Without Swimming
A COVID19 lament by Sara L. Russell 
25/9/20 at 14:01

Half a summer gone by; seamless tropical heat,
birds singing, bees pollinating, flowers blooming
and no swimming....

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Swimming in the water
Is so much fun to do
Especially in the summer
At the beach.

Swimming in the water
Just swimming in the water
Just swimming in the water

Swimming...

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The Seashore Gathering
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

On the seashores of endless worlds, earth's children converge.
The infinite sky is motionless, the restless waters...

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sunlit magic
gritty hot sand
flip flops, umbrellas, 
The smell of suntan lotions
Ph30, Ph15, Ph-something else.

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
Burning of the feet
Where are my flip flops?
Who wore them?
Where...

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Going Down Under!

Toes step, from dry to wet sand 
Foot sinks, bathes in waves 
Whoosh, waves splash ankles to toes
Cold, cool water, how far should...

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