Water Watch Poems

As I watch the magnificent waves out at sea, on their journey back to me, I think of all the brave sailors and fishermen who...

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I sense intent, it drifts on the air
Increasing my awareness
Holding me there

Negative ions, relax my thought
Positive impact
Distinctly less fraught

I feel power from the water
Rest and...

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Good luck to you! 
as you try to stop
this runaway train of thought
heading off the rails

Serenely setting sail
into the bliss of the blue sea

Saliently signaling...

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Miles past the nightstand
over the plastic water bottle.
the Ambien pill dispenser
and the soul-bruised eye shades,
an arrhythmic clock 
ticks like a bombed-out tank.

Of course there is...

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Now far offshore and beaten by the waves,
into the wind, they pulled to no effect.
The choppy seas, enough to quell the brave,
lept o’er the gunwales,...

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Technological marvel:
who’d have ever guessed?
They went to the moon,
powered by less.
The thing receives phone calls,
it’s got GPS,
a mindfulness app
for when you are stressed.
It monitors heart...

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This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in...

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I watch the storm gather in your eyes 
I hear the thunder echo in my mind 
The dark clouds gather around your hair 
Rain taps...

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King egret keeps watch 
Over the falls of the forest
Watching his kingdom with a prophet’s eye
Surveying diamonds on the moving water 

The river’s rapids are...

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Go Through hither observing
Sublime sky’s with tiny dots
Large round bright light
Dark as a burnt coal night

Mist wandering and drifting
Water lapping over rocks
Crystals gather tightly together
Moving...

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oh human rights watch
aren't you tired of watching

the
roasted Yemeni children 
is conscious haunting

an illiterate Emirati pilot
got his finger on the trigger

next to him a Saudi...

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He wouldn’t give me the time of day
if his watch was on fire –
the one I’d started running for.

I’d go seriatim on the trail
while speculating...

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A small trickle of life...the warming dawn reveal, a new season of snow melt, where tributary's and veins begin to build, spilling into a river...

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Tiny sand crab hides
Burrowed deep in the beach sand.
Sometimes a sand crab
May get stepped on, they’ll remind
You harshly, watch where you step
...

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Meet  me by the fountains brink
bring your quill and maybe ink
for you are all ones that blink
20, 40 count them all
but watch your step...

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