Best Beachgoers Poems

Seafarer sat by the turbulent sea
Watching the offing and watching the waves;
Smiling with small teeth, the color of tea
Recalling journeys and the friends he’d made;

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The ocean, eternal, spreads wide
Reflecting slate, somber storm clouds
While beachgoers, eight stories down,
Gather towels and scurry fast
From a squall shedding white lightning,
Dull, delayed drumbeat of...

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June’s warm sun had made the lake inviting
“Let’s swim across,” I said without a care
“But it looks quite far to the other side,”
He replied meekly;...

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I wave vaguely toward a boat in the distance, but
can't think of what I would say if they invited me on board.
"That seems excessive kindness,"...

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I had for long been an arborist, enthusiastically caring for the trees,
Like a grasshopper immersed in a green world, is glad for all he sees.

I...

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You know that feeling at the airport
Watching passengers arrive
As you’re about to board?
Or at a restaurant
Asking for the check
As the guy at the other table...

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Find places for meditation,
a strawberry path leading
to mysterious backwoods;
hear the woodpeckers drill through bark...
how frightening they are at dusk!

Meet the jolly woodscutter
gathering the fallen trunks
of...

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This beach without shady palm trees
is the chosen playground of harsh winds,
its sand is drier than the Sarah's desert;
nobody lays on a blanket to soak...

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Find places for meditation,
a strawberry path leading
to mysterious backwoods...
hear the woodpeckers
drilling through bark,
how frightening they are at dusk!


Meet the jolly woodscutter
gathering the fallen trunks
of cherry...

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The little ripples on the sea soon stir into larger waves
Like those in the land of the free, soon everyone caves
Approaching on the shoreline of...

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And there she was, a triple sweet treat
Earth, wind, and fire under the sun
She moved eyes as she began to run
With white sand blushing ...

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 Colorful umbrellas dot the shore
 As beachgoers bask in sunshine
 Sandcastles threatened by waves
 People collect seashells
 As the ocean roars
 There's fun and...

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My life was a river, and I was a willow twig, 
Bobbing on a creek toward the sea.
Strong, fast, lively children tried to catch me and...

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Snow on one hand
Sun on the other
Is our hide and seek.

Bench on the front
Snowman on the side
Take a picture on it.

Lightpost already lighted
A lighthouse is...

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