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Shoaling Poems - Poems about Shoaling

A Shoreless Night
...This night a yellow moon stalks root and branch. There’s a waving sagebrush breeze to twitch wary whiskers The star-salted fields and dark wooded islands merge in a wash of shoaling shadows.......

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Categories: shoaling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
This Shoreless Night
...This night a yellow moon stalks root and branch. There’s a waving sagebrush breeze to twitch wary whiskers The star salted fields and dark wooded islands merge in a wash of shoaling shadows.......

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Categories: shoaling, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Go Alone To the Sea
...A briny wind and a shoaling sea shore, and I sense a cobwebbed dispersing the shredded unraveling of care. Go alone to the seas edge, take no thought or fret to that swirling margin. ......

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Categories: shoaling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Schisms
...We are winded and on the ropes. Backwater banjo boys strum against us. Clouds feed upon a shoaling light. A bad day for going out or staying in. A time to be sleepless. We must live timidly, or p......

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Categories: shoaling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Night At a Tumbling Edge
...A mottled crab scuppers its sea legs in fluorescent foam. Blue pods rattle on green tides. Bladder wrack, Mermaid’s Hair washing tangled ankles. There are voices in my open mouth, they roll ove......

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Categories: shoaling, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Pebble Beach Day Out
...Beyond the wave-sacked, lie the pockmarked dunes, heaps dug by the claws of scaly thrashers. Here they huddle, my blood kin flogging grim pleasures, wolfing eggy sandwiches, dipping tea-stain......

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Categories: shoaling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Glory
...The date and time on a digital clock sings me a sotto voce halleluiah as I roll over on the surf of a shoaling shore. This is how a poem arrives, In a leaky boat loaded with refugees all arri......

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Categories: shoaling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Evening Watch
...Transports of hereafter pass one leaf to unclasped heaps. Flirty winds rearrange the hedgerow plumage, wisp in gentle whispers. Chipping sparrows play hid and seek with a watery sunli......

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Categories: shoaling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fever
...Transports of hereafter pass one leaf to unclasped heaps. Flirty winds rearrange the hedgerow plumage, wisp in gentle whispers. Chipping sparrows play hid and seek with a watery sunlight. ......

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Categories: shoaling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Sea
...Looking at the calm sea on a sunny day, I thought of schooling fishes swims around the bay, Maybe they are happily shoaling with their friend, And joking around while following the trail end, ......

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Categories: shoaling, care, world,
Form: Free verse
Surfacing
...Night is still in its diving bell. Turn over the body-heat, tuck head into a shoaling mind. You imagine the window, the drapes, the walls, the round walls all fish-eyed and rising. Februa......

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Categories: shoaling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Marlino
...Two, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas, Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees, Francesco’s outboard boat heads out to Caribbean’s deeper blue......

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Categories: shoaling, fish, fishing, sea,
Form: Narrative
Night On the Beach
...A mottled crab scuppers its sea legs in fluorescent foam. Blue pods rattle on green tides. Bladder wrack, Mermaid’s Hair washing tangled ankles. There are voices in my open mouth, they roll ove......

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Categories: shoaling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ohio River At Sunset
...lights flicker on the far side as Kentucky folds its dark robes a barge nudges the river into dusk bundles of clouds kindle a shimmering pause the river opens its body to swallow the s......

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Categories: shoaling, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Cold Comforts
...Beyond the wave-sacked, lie the pockmarked dunes, heaps dug by the claws of scaly thrashers. Here they huddle, my blood kin flogging grim pleasures, wolfing eggy sandwiches, dipping tea-stain......

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Categories: shoaling, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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