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Sea Poems | Examples of Sea Poetry

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Premium Member Thallosophile
“over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar…” —Samual Taylor Coleridge Thallosophile, my lass, listen to me. Emergent, I do wade in your blue depths, where subfluvial eyes view your splendour and I’m jealous, as glow of moon...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, sea,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Over The Waters Blue
"over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar" ... Samual Taylor Coleridge Over the waters blue I love to sail, many times I get to see a big whale. Some nights the wind will sigh, like...Read the rest...
Categories: blue, boat, love, sea,
Form: Bio
Premium Member A Poet's Heartfelt Ode To Italy
A Poet's heartfelt ode to Italy is the murmur of the calmest sea heard at the close of a long day; anchored boats in the bay of Amalfi await sunset and nobody has a plea to escape danger, so nostalgic...Read the rest...
Categories: sea, beauty, emotions, joy, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What of A Pearl?
The wonders of a salted spec, an intruder of the calm, slip secretly by slightest surge into some open being, drawn. Creation in the making by no jeweler of this world. Hidden from the human eye, perfect forming of a pearl. Some...Read the rest...
Categories: nature, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Storms Will Pass
"over the waters blue the night winds sigh, The breakers roar... " Samual Taylor Coleridge "Over the waters blue the night winds sigh The breakers roar..." Waves collapse before my eyes. I catch my...Read the rest...
Categories: metaphor, sea, storm,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Morning Reservation
Everything seems to fit into this morning's vast mosaic as if each piece has been shaped to occupy a given place. Even the broken sea shells that first appeared redundant, strewn haphazardly along the beach now give pause and interest to the...Read the rest...
Categories: morning, sea, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why Did I Become A Poet?
Quote By Poet: "I like to bring my imagination out in writing so you can bring your imagination out in reading." Books call my name, the bookstores are not to blame. Writing books and poems give me joy, better...Read the rest...
Categories: blue, books, poems, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sea
Sea I am inherently patient, I just go with the flow. I have many dark secrets, No one will ever know. Sometimes I can be shallow, Sometimes I'm dark and deep. When you look at me closely Your face is what...Read the rest...
Categories: sea,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Armbands
As every fear speaks with the tide, I keep pushing each arm to abide, as I gain on the water, with nowhere left to swim, or hide, I keep pushing, for the seas to confide....Read the rest...
Categories: sea, courage, extended metaphor, growth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Curtains-not for contest
On a ship Poet (Po) Reason (Re) Po: Look at the billow of the sails, the sea, its black and blue hails. Re: I’ve seen it before, even now and again. ...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, music, scary, sea,
Form: Verse
The Human Particle
edges are better felt beneath the skin the way the wind bruises into bone like folds of water through which the mind lurks in naked silence between gasps of ragged light those threadbare atoms held in a spider’s web the lash of...Read the rest...
Categories: sea, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Sailor's Prayer
Oh mighty mistral winds Fill my sails and take me home This voyage never ends Over countless seas I roam On this ship I'm but a slave Still I struggle and I try I fight each giant wave As it...Read the rest...
Categories: sea, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Raining in summer
On this majestic month of May, The clouds have conspired with the sun in a mist of golden gray, Like a toxic forbidden love that fights to stay, Wishing to birth magic yet creating an agonizing flurry...Read the rest...
Categories: sea, cheer up, funny, may,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Pearl
An oyster felt an uncomfortable itch Caused by a stinging sand grain. Ten fathoms deep, he slowly made - a pearl, So that he was free from pain. A tenacious Japanese ama, dove, This mermaid...Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, desire, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Storm Swept Through
I often write about the ocean. I went to see a museum exhibit, yesterday, “Dutch Art in a Global Age.” The paintings of sailboats on the sea caught my attention. Breathtaking and romantic, admired them...Read the rest...
Categories: art, sea, storm,
Form: Ekphrasis

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