Sea Tritina Poems

Shelves filled with all kinds of books,
will take a plain wall and make it pretty,
this makes real beauty for you and I.


Maybe some hot rose...

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Whispering softly on the faded beach, silence
Erasing melancholy with a gentle peace, soundless
Aching to release the stirring of grace, soothing

Sincere, serene, like a dying wish,...

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Life is strong and fragile. It’s a paradox… it’s both things, like quantum physics: It’s a particle and a wave at the same time. It...

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"recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge


I walk the shore alone beside your voice
How alive...

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As tears sweep the grief away,
Distress drowns in sea of gray;
Eyes see the beautiful bay.

Light of the stars is in sight,
Moon’s glow and gleam in...

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Along the beach the youthful surfers gather
To survey the breakers pounding the coral reef
In the late morning hours before the crowds arrive.

Then one by one,...

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Swimming to the bottom of the sea,
floating weightless in outer space, 
Feeling alive brings me peace; 

Change of perspective to peace; 
A sky full of...

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Floating out to sea in an apple cart
Were three known felons, one with a wheeze
Luckily I was in love with one

He was a man who...

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A slender lad, a city boy, set sail
'Board ship that hugged the contours of his coast
But lo! there brewed a mighty storm that night

The frail...

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The seawater rushes inland at the height of the tides.
It is the lateness of the day the moon begin its rise.
Morning sun takes out the...

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She cast her silken shadow in the moonlight

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This is a modified Tritina to meet the requirements of the contest:Ten Lines Five Words.

We were pushing our luck
Thinking we could make Adelaide
The wind was...

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The Wind and Sea


The mighty wind unleashed its gusty song 
     across the tranquil, undulating sea,
and stirred her body with his...

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You illuminate our hearts as you brightly smile
A splendid feeling for us lovers in the night
We’re completely snuggled  under your light.

Sitting beside each other...

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Upon the seas there sails a mighty ship
Her hold is weighted down with precious gold
She sails across the wide and surging sea

Alas! so dark and...

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