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The sea is inspirational melo-
dy, my stomach beats of its penmanship.
Biological immortality,
extravehicular activity,
My hushed breath whispers to burlap sails on distant seas,
Wrenched from my teeth and thrown to the breeze like confetti,
In the flailing arms of cerulean waves;
Filling my cavities with the hollow sighs of whales
I wish to go to the valley of white stones
overturn a few with the tip of my shoe
browse the sandy shores bordered by sandy sea
Endless light bent over expansive quiet
This land of sand and stone, of silent reverie
beach life by the seaearly morning getaway~ castles in the sand....Mark Toney © 2021.5/15/2021 - Poetry form: Haiku (for you)
Drawn to the edge of the waterin concert with the moontides ebbing, flowing,tasting, smelling,feeling, hearing,waves of the seacrashing, salty, wet,transporting me—Inner peace.
I think the reason so many lovers get married on the beach
Is because it’s the one place
The only public place
Where marriage is all around you,
Where the ocean marries the shore
I was privileged to have sedentary on the seashore in seraphic poetic submersion,The ringing sounds from the distant horizon made me entirely lost in my speculation,
[ ] The waves of love
The sound of the sea waves baffling me
Sitting at the seashore,
Holding hands
Is still like my dream.
I was never a selenophile before
Till the time I met the one
As the tides rise and birds fly
Across the light blue sky
Up so high,
I shall look under the sea
A beautiful place for me,
Swim to my home.
The seagulls pick at the sand surrounding my feet
aimlessly trying to pick any particle of soul from me
the smallest one tugs a hair
another one
one more tug
Sweet treachery on a night of drought,
And no, I did not see the billow coming.
I held no thirst or thoughts about
The sounds of soft waves drumming.
This is the tale of man in his boat;
So worn, so tattered, barely stayed afloat.
Late in the evening, no luck on his side,
He came into shore on the first riptide.
Oh beautiful sea,
The secrets you hold,
The stories you've told,
You're the place I long to be.
Your whispering winds,
Your crystal coasts,
Your playing palms
Your loving lands
The smell of creosote reminds me of the place I live,
but the salt air here reminds me of home.
I see the way people change when they look.
Really look.
The beach is full of plastic and muck but he stays there, the protector of the sea He thinks about the work he's done and as he stares he beings to weep All the tests and experiments and inventions he had done he wonders: What is wrong with me? Th
Love on the blue Baltic Sea
The love I call
Baltic melody,
Love, there’s a love
That’s hard to seize,
Love carried by the summer breeze,
Love on the blue Baltic Sea
Maid of the Yonder,
I call upon your brilliance of hope.
Eyes bright like the sparkles of the sea,
Lost in memory, stumped in desperation-
May this song appease the tears you hold.
Goodbye and thank you to the Ocean
Thank you for the memories
The nights of walking along the beach
The waves as they crashed at our feet
Thanks for the breeze blowing wind through our hair
Long rigid legs like chopsticks
Riding the seas got seasick
Snapping your snout like click click
You are a sandpiper, not a sandchick
A scuba instructor in my town,
who says his name is Triton,
claims he was a messenger for a king in the sea.
What a strange guy.
He says he was once a noble merman,
who wielded a trident,
I never understood the word moonbeam until I saw one. A stream of milky white on a canvas of dark and unforgiving ocean. The moon seemed to paint a streak down the middle as if someone had dropped the paint brush.
I entered the cold and windy sea
To see what I could see
There was something I had in mind
A treasure I couldn’t find
I was searching for a crab
To fit the habitat that I had
Lost among the wandering waves
Caressed by the windy days
I’m alone and content
As I float in the sea-drift
Far overhead gulls cry, “Land ahead!”
The ocean breathes, just like you and me
Now, I know that may sound silly
Or maybe you disagree
Take my word for it, and you'll begin to see
The ocean breathes, you see
The fish, sharks, and reefs
I can't watch the sunsetbecause it hurts my chest
but I like the way the waves crash against the shoredragging it back down with the tide
Two waves in the sea Two branches of the tree Two wings of the bee These are you and me In everywhere I go I keep your love to gr
The weight of the waves relentlessly presses down
Crash after crash, no air left in my lungs
Petrified, no energy to lunge
No other hope but to drown
But even the air of the deep
Breath of marble
And how could we continue
to ignore the nature to us fraternal,
in the black martyrdom without land,
of the crucified migrant to the mast
There's mystery in the depths of the sea.
She is like a second home to me;
It's a place where I want to see miracles and breathe tranquility.
She is the most beautiful of all existence.
The nothingness of space envelops me
As I drift amongst a sea of stars.
Cold, unfeeling, this is the space we exist in,
Oh the great sea
How it rocks to and fro
Carrying its children
Up above and deep below
They are all loved, by the ocean
held in its embrace
Wayward students bobbing aimlessly
Wanderers, idle, unfocused, undisciplined
“heads up keels down; keep your bearing”
Vigilant and watchful - ever watchful
What do we believe is in the sea?
How can you believe there’s nothing more to see?
A blue so deep no light seeps through
I wish I could see that part too.
Dearly beloved where have you gone?
I miss your warm rhythms and the touch of your song.
I heard your sweet voice and I looked all around, but all I could feel was the snow on the ground.
The beach seemed still as a crowd soon arrived
to tan on the beach and wade in the tides
they searched for lost shells and played in the sand
they buried their friends and held crabs in their hands
Oh the sight of the summer breeze,
I wish to only be with the sea.
The sea breaks upon the rocks, like my heart when he talks.
All I wish is to be seen, by the the man who is my dream.
Whispers drift with the salty breeze. Oh, my dear.
His tender hand brushes a lock of hair
behind her ear. Just, for me, bear
it a little longer. Let’s enjoy the fireworks at eight.
I once was struck by a powerful wave
So now I fear the sea
And waters that seem to behave,
Still drown me in reluctancy.
Perhaps I fear for when I swim,
The water that appeared so still,
a sky of blackbirds and blue jays
does never cross my mind
as much as deserts and cacti
all be in short supply.
and though i of the sea proclaim
the safety of my heart
She's 3 feet deep
Just below the sea
She's trying to reach the surface
But it's weighing her down underneath
She lost hope for eternity
She's 10 feet deep
Just below the sea
The sort of familiar feeling of falling
Envelops me like it's always meant to
An ocean that only goes down
Devoid of light and air and feeling
I find myself reaching
(The surface is miles away)
I'm drowning
Lost in the tides
Highs and lows
Will I survive?
Save me
Pull me to shore
Waves crash
Neverending
Let me find a break
Gasping for breath
Treading rough water
bring me whipped-cream foam
on top of sea-salted air
don't forget the occasional delicacy
from the unknown shore
where other customers are waiting--
here, bring them this feather
Water on the rocks below.
No wind - even with the hammering rain.
Small corner of the world I know.
I feel it with my toe
and dive.
Across the vast blue ocean,
Rising out of the rainbow reef,
Lies a solitary Island.
Its tree-crested mountains,
And river-carved valleys,
Tall waves crash,
High breakers bash,
"Strong am I"
It says midst clash,
"For Fire burns,
And Stone can churn,
And Man can Learn,
But Sea can last."
For the life of me
I can hear the sea
Calling, calling, calling.
And for the life of me
I'm trying, trying, trying
But for fear of the death of me...
I don't.
Don't.
Don't.
Frantically sinking into the Sea of Death
Trying to catch a single breath
A breath of life
That--- for a moment--- can take away the constant strife
This transcendental sea
Stretched in miles destiny,
Precincts an outline of hope-
Moreover, anguish.
As all horizons seem to be
Dense in fate of sky and sea.
The ship had sunk
beneath the sea,.
And from the deep,
it beckoned me.
I followed suit,
beyond the foam,
to the place
it made its home.
And as I gazed
There is no path to gloryIt is an emerald seaThat movesViciously in every way imaginable.
Only the calm stay afloat and awaken to another day.
Waves washing overhead,
And I am nothing but a grain of sand
Sitting aimlessly on the ocean floor.
Drowning,
Just learning how to swim.
I dance in the sea
I twirl, bubbles surround me
I run up high on the clouds
Racing the angels proud
Then swim in the sun
Till the day is done
The Seas
And the Skies
The color
In his eyes
Your hue makes me warm
You’re a thunderstorm
He holds the moon dear
Drops of water
A body for two
Salt so dense
Garbage shroud
Dubious combination
Most dominant of seas
Love so powerful
Can get through anything
There are things in the shadows
That dare come out into the day
And grasp at my hands to tow
Me far away.
Alone I am nothing,
Gone in the tides,
But with you I am something
The surface oscillates
Sunlight shimmers, shimmers, shimmers
Like a kaleidoscope, like a disco ball, streaming light back and forth, back and forth
Like a circle swirling on, on, on
Rise, break, fall
his eyes were mine,they held the sea and the sun.making my heart explode his eyes never showed me lovebecause they were in love with another.
I wish I were stronger—
Strong enough to kill,
To wield this blade against him
And cut a smile into his throat.
Feet that dance on knives for my sweet voice—
What is a princess?
What does she think of?
Does her mind race about the worlds beyond her,
does she wonder what the world has in store for her outside of her comfort?
What is a princess?
I am rock, alone in the sea,
cemented in sad are others like me;
We are not dead, nor alive,
From such captivity I can't contrive?
What is a wave,
A wave in the sea,
What is a wave on the shore?
I am a wave,
A wave on the sea,
I crash against the shore!
Why am I here,
Just to be there,
These classes are higher than stormy waves,
And are taught at such a hasty pace!
I know, the teacher never promised me all A’s,
But will they offer very little grace!
I dragged myself along the sand when I could walk no more
Scars and bruises were a burden
Finally fleeing from this self war
2016 wasn't a rollercoaster, or a carousel, or a blind leap off of a cliff like they everyone says.
This year was an ocean.
The year I was born, we started the drive.
Beyond the seas of melancholy,
there was a time I held your hand,
My heart now bears an untold story...
like a ship at sea that longs for land-
A great untruth my lips have borrowed,
Dana Gilmore said it best when she said "you can cry me a river you can cry me a sea"
And Yellow Rage asked "what do you know about being Asian? "
But I am asking you. What do you know about me?
A piece of driftwood lies
alone on the sunbaked sand.
A knarled knot points out to sea,
gesturing far from the land.
What troubled seas have you traversed?
What strange lands have you spied?
I would like to learn how to draw an otter
My mother’s at sea and I’m her daughter
I daren’t go; I’m so scared of water
Dark secrets stalks the night as the moon raised
The steps of the secret edges closer
As the moon fetches the ocean praise
But I couldn’t clutch my secret forever
Each day my passion ablaze like the stars
And your intellect is wasted.Let me tell you, your words will lose their depth.Because she hears them and smiles,but they are hollow to her.They are just an extension of you.
My heart is an ocean;
most wade near the shore, barely passing the sandbar.
Although there has been one brave swimmer, she had created tsunami waves that tore up my innards,
You'll never understand
What you did
People like to plant gardens in my heart
They'll scatter seeds across my soul like
Rice after a wedding
Flowers will blossom and
As the waves crash down, the walls close in,
Thoughts and ideas remain stagnant having nowhere to escape to.
I scream them out loud, but they disappear into the wind.
What’s the point of that?
Stranded on an island with your family
One would think you'd be annoyed, rather than filled with glee
But unlike most, you find your peace
Surrounded by love ones and the sea.
Afloat in the body of an endless sea
Drenched suffocating as the shores no sight to me
Fight to be loved
Loving to fight
The night holds me tight when I struggle for light
Blood in the eyes of a sun that cries
Ever selfish gulls are rising in arcs,Knowing the waves and moreIn their squabble.
Watching waves isn't watching water.
They fight like the gulls.
Restless and cooking,They're one, long groan.
it's like you've lived your whole life on the bottom
of the sea
rising now
things are looking up
lifting too fast
you feel like you might implode
too much pressure
too much release
It's Enough
Just to swim
In the deepness
Of the Sea
It's Enough
Just to twist
As I'm unlocked
With a Key
It's Enough
Just to have
Your eyes gaze
Down on Me
Like a misty, ocean morning,
smokey blue
pale enough to be grey,
cobalt towards the western cliffs.
A fisherman sets out in the early chill
with a fire lit lamp.
It's glow shocking life into
eenie meanie minnie mo
here are my problems
watch them grow
a penny for a spool of thread
when you've not a needle
that's the way a life goes
bound to moneys evil
Poetry cannot be taught, nor beauty be described
Neither can you see in me something that defined
The colors of my skin.
Scars are tattoos in many ways - permanent and painful.
Here I am, a sailor from Italy
I ask to sail for my home country
They reject me and I begin to leave the country angrily
I believe the world is round
Heard trumpets from afar this morning,
closed my eyes to embrace a memory
of warm winds and white sand.
The smell of salt water and Caribbean cuisine laid still in my mind,
for a brief second.
My life, is a ship lost at sea, with the wind raging and waves tossed up at me.
On a course unset, with the sun set beautifully.
That light in the distance is my little fix that I use to see.
Your eyes distant
And as deep as the blue sea
On sandy steps we watch
The waves curl and break
once I was floating in the water with care
I was quite young and the sea was new there
and though I trusted it soundly
Echo, you privilege soul
Stand by as I pillage your home
Watch as they rave your condemnation
We have yet to live.
This campus is a sea of perfection.
Waves of blonde haired individuals bob around with deep blue eyes floating underneath.
This sea is straight,
straight hair,
with straight slender bodies.
I am the sea.
Tranquil and calm.
You see me, and I am peaceful and serene.
I am untroubled, and disturbed.
But break the surface, and I am
I looked at you and I knew that it would never be the same
I fell into your eyes, and thought I really knew
But it was not something I can explain.
A spark, a piece, and suddenly everything felt right
When the ocean is far awayand the wind is full of sand instead of salt,I dive back into the green pools offorgotten peace in your eyes.I swim through lakes of cheap vodkaand expensive memories.
The Sea is a Bliss,
As the Sun Offers a Kiss.
The Blowing of a Strong Gale,
Fills My Sail.
I met her by the seasideAlmost in a tranceAs sunshine shone upon herAnd skipping waves did dance.She called me with a whisperThrough the ocean air,But as I did approach her
Confidently unthinking I walked into the shadows
I thought I was Lolita, hardly, really I was callow
Numbing and naked,
Beguiled by the sullen sea.
Tidal your waves relentlessly
And pour down on me,
Your misery.
O blindest me o forgotten one, thy eternal Re.
O achest me, take pity.
Mine eyes have been taken by thee.
My home rests on two shores,
North and South
A house with two front doors,
My love has two faces.
I am two people confronting our rift
Letting the waters take us adrift,
A shot fired across the decka weakened hull. A turning tide.Well, all our anchors hang on chainsand dangle off our changing minds.
Do you hate the way that our magnetized timesturn us all to metal shavings-- push and pull--charged eachday to fill up negative spacewith negative attraction?Were you repulsed when polarities
Just breathe in and out and again.This smog that clouds our mind-placing us in the realm of Negativity-will pass.
BLOTCHES FROM A COLORFUL CANVAS
With blue the world is draped, and with its hue my soul delights,
From whitewashed shores on dripping edges of roaring sounds,
Words long lay dormant
And out of reach,
Like shells washed up
On a barren shore
They gave the turbulen expanse
A settled beauty,
But the waves left
Nothing free.
Don't leave "I love you"
She repeated
Look at how bright the stars shine for you
Its beautiful isn't it
It must be nice to be the new girl kissing you
Im forced to say the truth im not over you
Mid the evening as I walk along the shore,
Inside of me a burning comes, like one never has before.
Beyond the horizon I long to be, far from land and out to sea.
LoveThe largest ocean in the seaAnd the deadliestFor it has no islandNo escapeFor you will become blindFrom all the sharksPulling your leg like no tomorrowOnly gazing at the breath
Take me to the ocean
where the sun meets the sea
take me to the ocean
where the salt can touch me
And my tears will fall
and float across the world
until they find you
The sun serves you,
And offers a piece of its shame.
The sea is enslaved,
And sacrifices it's wonder in your name.
The sky is your thrall,
The traffic sounded like the sea, always moving,
never changing.
The sun's rays grew intense, burning the skin,
The ocean currents
Of blissful magnitude
The smell of sand
The breeze of freshness
Back. Forth. Back. Forth.
Small intervals of wind
Keeping my body
In a state of frenzy.
Bluest of skies
The wall of the wave comes powering forward from a small distance
My heart races with beat of my stroke as I paddle into a good position
In my dream, you walked beside me
Along soft breeze and rolling sea
At sunrise, waves of sand churned free
Filling my heart with bliss and glee
I keep having dreams about you
because in my dreams you would answer me
every night, without fail
I keep having dreams about you
because you'd reply
Unlike some people, I dislike the sea.
The water transcends from clear to pitch black,
And it never seemed interesting to me,
The aquatic garden, when seen from space, is vast, mystical, and blue
It has many unique, sea creatures living in it too
Some burrow, some float, some dart from side to side
Steel-clad knight armed with naught
But his words and rope pulled taught
Around his bad where his heart dwells,
Waiting to be delivered to the shells.
Tumbled stones
Ebbing tides
Salty mist
Nature's prize
Breathing in
Letting go
Whatever will come will be
Whoever shall die will sail the sea
Liberated from life’s shores
Cast into death
On to a place of love
Passing the test
Lost moments, never to be reclaimed
My frustration is I feel out of place! I had everything I truly wanted and felt whole with what I had. Now I just feel like I have what I want and don't at the same time. I mean fame is becoming more and more of a turn down.
For love I'd give my last words, but never speak them with a lie,I'd fight for your trust, but never force it from your side.For love I'd climb the highest peak, but only if it ended with you as my view,
There is something across the sea,
Something foul that beckons to me.
Will I leave?
I shall indeed.
To my Muse that beckons to me.
There is something on yonder shore,
In raging currents, all was lost,
A child tossed crimson yarn about the wind-struck rocks,
others stowed away in wrinkles of the sea.
They hid inside dragonfly homes.
When the tide unfolded,
I paint my face with clayOf the river bed,Let my tears wash into the bayAs the ocean spreads,What a magical potionIn every emotion,
Drink Me up.
nocufsoin
Confusion, oh the deep waters of confusion,
It swallows you whole and stirs up your thoughts.
You feelings drop down to the bottom, dark and sandy,
Oh captain, my captain I'd sail the seas for you. Face every storm, dive in the depths of the blue. Oh captain for you, I'd go down with this ship. Sail forever, until we find bliss. Oh captain...My captain. I'd sell my soul for you.
I should be happy But for some reason I'm sad I can't understand the game you're playing It feels like we're on different levelsYou're funny, cute, and awesome But I can't seem to feel what I've felt before
I'm a wanderer by nature, see
My children agree with me
In the city one day I'll be
But the next I'm by the sea
My children agree with me
That moving is what I need
All alone in a sea of despair
Until I realized I have the Sun
A sun I never realized was there
In a world full of darkness
there is always a light
The longer we linger, the harder the fight
It’s the sound you hear in between
The space that fills nothing
Or the nothing that fills the space.
Constant trace of thought
Emotions stay unveiled.
Catapulted thoughts
drifting abound.
Drowning, the faded blue on the worn wood
Scattered throughout the ocean so dark.
A once bright ship that thought it could
When the lights are searching my pockets of darknessThose words that frantically chime in your earThey are still alive, they knew me wellI told them, you were a whisper
You are the moon and I am the sea,
Your constant changing faces,
Are always changing me,
When you show your full face,
she liked the ocean breeze
because it reminded her of childhood
and getting away
and she liked the soft caress of music
for it whispered needed asurance
and took her breath away
A break in the norm
Traditions broken
Patterns erased
Different, unexpected, new, life
Up or down, left or right, they are no longer options
This a new beginning, a new time
So these words
messy messy words
get combobbled in my head.
Screwed around with
tossing and turning like
they're on a high seas adventure
of epic porportions.
And some can't hold on
Why are your eyes so small?
Are you Asian or Chinese?
CHING CHONG!
You’re Asian, you’re suppose to be good at math.
Asians always get good grades –
Mom, why am I who I am?
When the sky lies heavy and silver
Upon a pale, jade sea
And the waves rush cold and foamy
Over my toes--the whisper of a song,
An unspoken, sweet loneliness,
Lifts my hair with the salty seabreeze
I saw the surface above me,
Shimmering, bright.
The sunlight pouring in,
Golden rays through the waves.
Sinking,
Farther down,
No matter how hard I kick.
Thrashing in the water,
Knots
Twisted up inside me.
I'm dying just to breathe,
to cry.
But I can't.
Not here.
I want to just
give up.
What if this feeling lasts,
Most days I’m a bashful pink.
Blushing and shy.
Constantly hidden.
Then I become a ruthless sea green.
And I could fall asleep to your voice,
The tiny rippling waves washing up on the shores of my ear drums,
Crashing and retreating back to the open blue from which they came.
Tossed out of the ocean
I’m gasping
God take me back
This agony is everlasting g
Deaths cold fingertips
Tantalize and twist
The night’s young but the tide is high
The black skies that petrify
Lying on the shore I let the tide engulf me
The ice cold embrace of the water drags me down
Sinking like a stone I submit to the water’s grip
We whip across the glassy sea
leaving a ripple of tumult behind us
My hair blows into my face, gets caught in my smile
But I push it away and stick my palm in the water
feeling for vegetation, fish; for life
The sea:
a light flickers,
flits, sees my face, turns back.
I call, reach, shield from the rain on
the waves that, crashing, cover the figment,
which drowns, choking, a bubbly laugh
Just let me curl to your form
Sleep in the same bed and
Inhale,
Your wonderful light as air scent.
Maybe it's dark and heavy,
Like the ocean waves crashing
Against the shore that smother it,
My ship sets sail, it sails out to the sea
I am the captain, so the captain I shall be
I command no orders, my ship sails like I breath
The water so perfect, a ship just like mine sails in the reflection I see
I am a shell, holding the possibility of life
soft to touch, but strong, and yet, still vulnerable
I am an embryo,
racing to grow while being shadowed by death
I am a hatchling
This feeling I cannot explain, beyond my mind I cannot tame. A thought so sweet, so soft, so docile has been tearing up my restless brain.My lips the smoothest messenger, my heart it's strongest warrior, blind among the coming wave.
The way the rain disturbs the waves,
the small splatters in the silence.
The fog covers the sea to stop us from seeing
water hitting water, causing bigger waves;
a disturbance to normality.
I'll call you in the morning, so you know that I'm alive.
For I might die while I'm asleep, when darkness covers my eyes.
For when you are not with me, I'm drowning in the sea.
I watch her shimmer and dance from the shoreline
While the sunset adorns her in gold
she’s calling so sweetly, my Aquamarine
For our friendship is many years old
Peep, slip under the surface tension. Dip, sail under the current's one-way mirror. I found your skin buried under the old yew. I fell in love with your form, your ocean grace. Mermaid of fur. Dog of my heart's ship; my ship's heart.
I can still hear his voice, lost over the rush of the waves.
When really
It was a fan, stirring up the sticky heat
that sat
as still as I did.
Among the ebb and flow of the Earth
Among the flourishing promise of human life
Among whatever secrets this land may hold beneath my feet
True peace lies in the sand
The voice of the sea is severe--
scolding,
rebuking,
mocking,
laughing at the soul who dares enter its sorrowful abyss.
But who could resist a voice so enticing?
She steps into the water,
Spirals of foam pulling at her ankles.
The ocean billows out before her
Like a pair of sails in the wind.
A pelican rests in the water
Out beyond the waves.
The sea sings a sweet song of my desire
Morning sunlight kisses my warm, pale cheeks
A marbled sunrise painted the color of fire
On wind-swept sand sea birds preen with their beaks
Yesterday finding a suitor seemed doubtful
even though millions of fish live in the sea.
No one could spark my life, it continued to remain dull.
Just as I began to lose hope, you found me.
