Popular Poems About the Sea

( a Sonnet )

The motion of a wave that comes to shore
Like everytime you hover over me.
To have me sink in drift of ocean floor,
That draws me deep away far out to sea.

Entrust for all the while you take my breath,
Each of your lover’s vice [keep still my heart].
The stronger claim of time must be a death,
Each act we find it hard for us to part.

And yet we do, as day will come to pass,
And day will turn to night to be disguised.
The ebb & flow, the sound of current’s rasp,
To dive, you seek in spite...

Shipwrecked
 
   
The bilious green of dull and latex walls  
Will have me lurch and choke my dinner up.  
There isn't any mercy where it falls,  
Instead to reach a point to fill my cup.  
   
I don't know what I've done to be in here,  
The bilious green of dull and latex walls.  
The sick from errant voyage' facial smear,  
How quick dishevelment turns to withdrawals.  
   
I seem to hear the gale that with me crawls,  
It too must feel the slog from gut to neck.  
The bilious green of dull and...

I want to love you across the world.
The land dwelling creature longs for the sea,
Like the horse pines for the dolphin,
Poke your head out and breathe my air.

It is not worth it on land; I'm bored
With the world I know; it is too dry.
Too in step with my own kind;
I want to turn your head around.

I want your gills to grow to lungs.
I want to dive and feel uncomfortable
Living out of my element
To learn my body's limits more.

If I never loved a fish,
A foreign representative,
What would I learn of the...