Terns Poems - Poems about Terns

...You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing I call you by name not to possess it but because it is the only prayer I have ever known how to say You are the sea—each wave not an argume......

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...Thank you O sea, For the untiring music of your waves, For the rolling of your rollers, Thank you O sea for your music so refined, This music softens the soul, His sight soothes the poet Conso......

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...Is it Epson Salt? All those nice villas along the coast are empty save for stray cats and those too poor to live inland because the sea stinks like bouillabaisse gone off. Marine life and sea plan......

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...The kids are gone, I'm retired, I'm takin' a long vacation, To Paradise Island with sunny beaches, that's my destination! I'll spend the days savorin' a climate of seventy-two degrees, Snoozin' 'n......

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...I live in Arrubluc by the sea much like the fabled Llareggub made famous by Dylan Thomas in the radio play 'Under Milk Wood'. The land meets the sea here as well, but it's a beachside town, besi......

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...Each morn at dawn, I take my perch Awaiting apt brightness to start my search. A flash of wings, catches my eye, As tiny flocks of birds flutter on by. It's a busy time as hungry birds feed, ......

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... The bar-tailed godwit caught birddom by surprise When word got out just how far this bird flies A juvenile Limosa lapponica, satellite tag 2-3-4-6-8-4 flew nonstop from Alaska to the Tasma......

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...Between the lily pads and soft sandbars Lay the saturated words of idle time Among bloated carp and feisty sunfish They linger in a sunny dampened rhyme. Fleet Dragonflies of thought dodge dart......

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...i wander these winter beaches where autumn's storms have removed the footfalls of summer believing in spring here i am alone listening to the waves mellifluously remind yet never recalling ......

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...I am captivated by the ever-rushing tide Small, distant tsunamis raping the beach, Granting the tiny sand crabs a free ride From way beyond the frothing surf’s reach Causing the terns......

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...rainbows prohibited Colors x ray screened let in --- Halloween splendor snow terns oxen bear perplexed frightened new-born fawns ~ hungry angry yaks fish in frozen lakes frogs imprisoned......

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...a flock of terns face headlong into the wind -- compliant wind vanes......

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...Lakeside at dawn, all is calm, quiet, but expectant. Then, peeping from the silence, barely discernible is the sound of whispering wings stuttering a plaintive beat, intermittent. It is the fl......

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...Summer slips slowly, sullenly southward Together the terns try taking their turns Under unusually ubiquitous umber umbrellas Versatile velocity verified via villagers While winter welcomed......

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...black capped terns in flock line-up all pointing seaward twenty-one wind vanes......

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