Nature Swimming Poems

a large school of fish
     in unison each fish turns
          synchronized swimming
...

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Cool, dark blue waters
Ringed by green, pointed pines
A white-clouded sky above 
And all of it fills my eyes

Free-floating ...
Held in summer's arms 
Held by the...

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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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This will be the fortuitous night
When her restless spirit fully takes flight
In all four winds that fail to slow
Under the waning reflective moonlight.

They met under...

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I can’t reach you, love
I have little energy
Diving in the deep…

I can’t teach you, dear,
How to swim t’wards me out here
It’s not so shallow…

I fear...

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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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The sun blazed hot, no cloud for a respite.
Life was hopeless, wretched and desperate.
The grass a withered brown, and tree leaves sparse.
No shade for the...

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The elegant mute swan,
Gliding through the water,
It's feet under the water,
Going like the clappers....

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a sockeye salmon

leaps into the jaws of death ~ 

   bear yawning upstream



A Haiku with Movement - Nature themed Poetry Contest (Winner: 10th...

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dunking one toe
into the lake
before jumping in



published in my photobook A TOUR OF ASHBY LAKE, 2020

posted on September 6, 2019...

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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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There is no horizon like a flat horizon!
The autumn water's stinging embrace
Is like an Ice Queen's embrace:  sudden, and welcoming, and deadly...
Is like squeezing...

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When my daughter was fifteen
we went on holiday to Cyprus
always a life long desire of hers
was to swim with a dolphin

Imagine her delight and joy
when...

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Tourist Hotel´s Pool  

The swimming pool at the hotel is empty
guests are having supper.
On limpid water two big yellow balls float
asleep after being thrown...

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In Florida one right hot summer
A free soul was havin' a bummer
So in spray painted undies
Next holiday Monday
He split to the Springs with his rummer.

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Equally...

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