Islands Poems - Poems about Islands

Stark forests Salted earth Waste land of sticks and shapes Lucayan people buried in caves Hiding from explorers Trying to enslave ...Read the rest...

A while ago I read an article about the people of the Marshall Islands, about their language, their history, their fragile, disappearing home. I learned about a word they have, so versatile, so complex. “Iakwe” means hello, goodbye, I love you. But the most important meaning (to me at least): You are a...Read the rest...

The islands seem afloat in the sea So have they been through the ages Yet they have not gone on a journey Even as they are bombarded with waves When a tempestuous storm rage They are anchored at the deepest...Read the rest...

at eight am I arrive at Harbour Island a calm beach with pink sand she resides in the Bahamas if you want to visit her the sand does not look as pink as the photos But it is not brown...Read the rest...

Distant noises in the morning Distant morning spread its flair Got no learning from the yearning Boys are riding boards out there Something metal knocks on metal Birds are flapping down and up I take off the whistling kettle For the instant...Read the rest...

Tears behind the cocktails, Rowing down to calmness Oasis was found, Pure life's gratitude I found after my mistake. Confident I feel while I'm breathing loneliness. Awake with open eyes Lonely in a tropical island. Isolated in the middle of the world, I...Read the rest...

Land of the seas and glorious sunshine Sparkling Pearl of the Orient Sealine Strategically and truly well-placed This great country's sun-kissed islands are laced Lined up with palm fronds and coconut trees salubrious climate that drives cool breeze Pearls of...Read the rest...

In the heart of the Pacific, where waves cradle secrets, **Tatau** emerges—a sacred script etched upon skin, A symphony of charcoal rivers, whispered stories, **Samoan souls bloom**. **Pe'a**, the male canvas, bears courage's weight, Thighs adorned with ancestral tales— A map...Read the rest...

SEVEN THOUSAND ISLANDS Some five hundred miles East of Vietnam The Phillipines is a multi-island archipelago Named in honour of King Phillip of Castile It was Spain’s mid sixteenth century deal But colonisation and ownership a farrago Won by Spain but...Read the rest...

Born wearing ballet shoes without knowing, far in the deep nature, in the Sakhalin Islands, a ballet star opened his eyes for the first time. Warmed by the love of his family, he grew up happy until his life changed. He travelled without...Read the rest...

Two Icy Islands Cracks appear in the ice Become wider but we don’t cross We each urge the other to jump To join the other on their slab of ice I motion to you, you motion to me Neither jump. Our...Read the rest...

The Bahama Islands our nation of shallow seas our archipelago in the sun we live on which the Lord our God laid our foundation of life upon the shallow plantations of The Atlantic Ocean We are a consecrated...Read the rest...

now, (my) collection of poems library on the bookshelf coming out in backpack bag at the coffee shop into back trouser pocket, I'm going to meet you....Read the rest...

The grey skies shift to blue, and now a breeze is heralding a longed-for transformation. With rainbow colours Mother Earth is blessed and all the islands of the west caressed, reborn. Sweet Summer knows no storm....Read the rest...

*Image of Tropical Arrangements by FukuFlow. The Islands Call Hawaiian rainbow colored precious mixture of fine blooming fragrances that seizes both eyes and nose filled breaths of sweet nothings sealing fate forever bridging dreams illustrating life's gift at Paradise shores. 2022 December 16 *2nd Place* Writing Challenge - Yalto Form ~~Constance La France: Judged...Read the rest...