Childhood Waves Poems

Emerald Waves crashing, lapping, 
frolicking on the tranquil seashore….
I watch, I reminisce, I close my eyes…
alone, standing on a cliff!
A Buddhist temple on the sublime...

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Wild ocean encourages it, worlds grow
buit on rip currents of the past;
The result is a monochrome rainbow;

Adult goals that feel like a fantasy,
childhood hopes that...

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I am a girl who decided to go to school barefoot, because that’s what other young children from needy families in a village were used...

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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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Half baked metal, smelting in a dorm
one good eye, the middle of a storm
Loss erupts oozing, from a broken spire
query one’s despair, then tell me...

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Those days are gone, set
afloat upon waves of air-
that in which we dreamed, for we
were dreamers...adrift in the water
that took us to wherever
the currents flowed-
into...

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Lines in the sand 

Telling stories close to hand

Declarations of love are made

Engineering dreams are played

Creating channels to defend your keep

Playing soldiers in castles with...

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The waves are my tugging friends
Though they could play rough
I let the sun whip across my face; this fascination—it all blends
They could warm up my...

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We huddle over the mass of our treasures
with stinging skin and salt ringed hair
while holding a washed blue sea star shining
we whisper with bittering breath...

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