Ocean Couplet Poems

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    Updraft lifts limbs, leaves scurry like mice exposed
    Mother Nature shakes shorebreak, incline imposed
    Gnaws...

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A bird that dips and wavers
Over lone waters round,
Then with a cry that quavers
Is gone—a spectral sound.
— Cale Young Rice

Sopping wet, the organ floats,
flounders in...

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   Cliff hanger story - 
   Freshly shorn scrawny
   Steady assembly ruptured
   Atop rocky bluff rugged
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Apni Marzi se
by Nida Fazli Shayari
translated by Mandakini Bhattacherya and Michael R. Burch

This journey was not of my making;
As the winds blow, I’m blown along...

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   First life in water
   providing shelter.

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The oceans are deep and the mountains high
the sun is warm when seen in the noon sky.
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Walking and thinking and clearing my head
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     On spewing wave, our departing ride
     Crazed currents crack, an azure slide
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if we live our lives, by the 4r rule
this world we just might save...and cool

when it has a triangle then put in
the great big yellow...lidded...

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    Of ocean’s roar, dark tales are told
      Of swimmers dragged into its fold 

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if you hold the ocean up to your ear
an old empty shell is what you will hear

a creature long dead that once called it home
his...

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The trees clap hands as the birds gaily sing
The hope and joy that the new day will bring.
The redwing blackbird in the cattails hymns.
The fish...

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Love Goggles

My only ambition to count your heart beats,
To watch your chest rise then fall,
to a steady rhythm all your own
Life affirming breath, enthralls.

You need...

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And though I’ve surmised my eyes with
Men in different lighting
I see a fair facade of girls and you trying to glide him
It’s just my absurd...

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