Poems About the Sea by Top Critiquers
#sea
AverageJoe
Poem Published
13th Dec 2019 10:30pm
13th Dec 2019 10:30pm
The Book of Things
They say to me in their awakening,
"You and the world you live in are but a grain of sand upon the infinite shore of an infinite sea."
And in my dream I say to them,
"I am the infinite sea, and all the worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore."
Kahlil Gibran
***
He had dreamed a dream and awoke to the feel of it as real. He lay in stillness with the thought until he could remember every part and then he arose and wrote it down. He kept a book of dreams though these he never showed but only kept and read, and perhaps in the margin later...
"You and the world you live in are but a grain of sand upon the infinite shore of an infinite sea."
And in my dream I say to them,
"I am the infinite sea, and all the worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore."
Kahlil Gibran
***
He had dreamed a dream and awoke to the feel of it as real. He lay in stillness with the thought until he could remember every part and then he arose and wrote it down. He kept a book of dreams though these he never showed but only kept and read, and perhaps in the margin later...
#sea
#water
#ShortStory
#learning
#wisdom
447 reads
2 Comments
Northern_Soul
-Missy-
-Missy-
Poem Published
19th Feb 2024 00:00am
19th Feb 2024 00:00am
I Am The Ocean
because today I am water
because salt is more than wounds
because Pisces brands me on a Sunday
because gulls cackle like covens
because I’ve tattooed wild selkie skin
because I’ve never drowned on land
because submergence is risk
[I crave risk]
because I stuffed a message in a bottle
because wet paper feels like kelp
because I am holy, holier still
because God is humble at sundown
because I am late night thunder
because I am a lighthouse of warnings
because my skull is a clifftop suicide
because I am...
because salt is more than wounds
because Pisces brands me on a Sunday
because gulls cackle like covens
because I’ve tattooed wild selkie skin
because I’ve never drowned on land
because submergence is risk
[I crave risk]
because I stuffed a message in a bottle
because wet paper feels like kelp
because I am holy, holier still
because God is humble at sundown
because I am late night thunder
because I am a lighthouse of warnings
because my skull is a clifftop suicide
because I am...
#sea
#water
#confessional #SelfReflection
#confessional #SelfReflection
203 reads
17 Comments
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
30th Dec 2023 00:54am
30th Dec 2023 00:54am
Lucite Helicopter to Australia
This helicopter
in which you are riding
is entirely clear.
Lucite
Sturdy
You can see all the gears,
and the folding waves
of the lonely Pacific below.
In this helicopter,
you can see Freddie Mercury standing in the roomy cabin
this is a large model lucite helicopter)
and Brian May heading back to the cockpit.
He's an astrophysicist and rock star,
so why not a helicopter pilot too.
In this helicopter
made of lucite
for your viewing pleasure,
you can see birds
miniature breaching whales ...
in which you are riding
is entirely clear.
Lucite
Sturdy
You can see all the gears,
and the folding waves
of the lonely Pacific below.
In this helicopter,
you can see Freddie Mercury standing in the roomy cabin
this is a large model lucite helicopter)
and Brian May heading back to the cockpit.
He's an astrophysicist and rock star,
so why not a helicopter pilot too.
In this helicopter
made of lucite
for your viewing pleasure,
you can see birds
miniature breaching whales ...
#dreams
#sea
#spiritual #travel
#spiritual #travel
180 reads
10 Comments
PandoraUnleashed
Poem Published
29th Apr 2019 11:33pm
29th Apr 2019 11:33pm
Anew
Cast before oceans countenance
I lay upon grit and grain
O'r flesh, tides pull in transcendence
As waters of brine balm my souls distain
Serenade me , sweet singing azure
Blessed is your eternal roaring sound
Your currents soothe as they shatter shore
To heavens, my gracious praise resounds
Your essence gently cleanses as it quells
As your flow will surge on infinitely
May your peace, within me, forever dwell
Laid anew on sands of tranquility
Under curtains of blue skies, soul shall rise
Healed by oceans...
I lay upon grit and grain
O'r flesh, tides pull in transcendence
As waters of brine balm my souls distain
Serenade me , sweet singing azure
Blessed is your eternal roaring sound
Your currents soothe as they shatter shore
To heavens, my gracious praise resounds
Your essence gently cleanses as it quells
As your flow will surge on infinitely
May your peace, within me, forever dwell
Laid anew on sands of tranquility
Under curtains of blue skies, soul shall rise
Healed by oceans...
#sea
#sonnet
#healing
642 reads
29 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
14th Feb 2024 11:09pm
14th Feb 2024 11:09pm
Coastal navigation
Gigantic sea of forgotten
silent sea that does not bring
your voice in the turbulent waves
sea of island eyes on fire
that doesn't imitate the sound of your voice
sea that limits the roof of your mouth
and swallow your voice mythologically
like a desert island lighthouse
human marks of desert sonar
quasar pulse and virus analysis
sea that salts the throat
sea that stretches the rope
chained from anchored boats
in the deep brown
from the...
silent sea that does not bring
your voice in the turbulent waves
sea of island eyes on fire
that doesn't imitate the sound of your voice
sea that limits the roof of your mouth
and swallow your voice mythologically
like a desert island lighthouse
human marks of desert sonar
quasar pulse and virus analysis
sea that salts the throat
sea that stretches the rope
chained from anchored boats
in the deep brown
from the...
#river
#sea
#beach
#water
#nature
67 reads
5 Comments
AspergerPoet56
Poem Published
9th Jun 2020 4:00pm
9th Jun 2020 4:00pm
Silent Bond
know the oceans somber motion
In every wave that hits the shore
The endless connection
Between land and sea
The crashing storms
That give it menace
The still calmness
It’s prayer for peace
The ebb and flow
With its silent bond to the moon
Like the pull of hearts
The gravity of souls in love
In every wave that hits the shore
The endless connection
Between land and sea
The crashing storms
That give it menace
The still calmness
It’s prayer for peace
The ebb and flow
With its silent bond to the moon
Like the pull of hearts
The gravity of souls in love
#love
#sea
471 reads
6 Comments
Confluence
Poem Published
17th Jan 2024 6:44am
17th Jan 2024 6:44am
Sand Scripture
I watch as the words we wrote
so beautifully infused
with passion & hunger
with us
spread across the sands of time
slowly erode
I want to capture them
gather them up
salvage their truth
but the waters have betrayed me
washing them away
and it hurts
sitting on this island
in the middle of monsoon
without you
but as rhapsodic
winds would twist in
the bosom of a whimsical fate
waters receded only to
prophesize a tsunami of loving sentiments
washed ashore in
rolls of familiar sea...
so beautifully infused
with passion & hunger
with us
spread across the sands of time
slowly erode
I want to capture them
gather them up
salvage their truth
but the waters have betrayed me
washing them away
and it hurts
sitting on this island
in the middle of monsoon
without you
but as rhapsodic
winds would twist in
the bosom of a whimsical fate
waters receded only to
prophesize a tsunami of loving sentiments
washed ashore in
rolls of familiar sea...
#sea
#lover
#memories
239 reads
6 Comments
smackdownraven
Poem Published
26th Apr 2020 8:25pm
26th Apr 2020 8:25pm
daisy chains
electric blue fusion of the day's colors
happy to be in the moment
the sun lit the stage for the happening
innocence chant songs
to the beat of a field cricket's melody
lazy daisy chains are woven in friendship
the winds blow easily across the plain
while grass sway waving little hellos
to the passerby's
in tune with the heart of the day
wildflowers dot the fields
dressed in their Sunday best
the river of contentment flowed onward
out to the ocean of enchantment
while seagulls make easy...
happy to be in the moment
the sun lit the stage for the happening
innocence chant songs
to the beat of a field cricket's melody
lazy daisy chains are woven in friendship
the winds blow easily across the plain
while grass sway waving little hellos
to the passerby's
in tune with the heart of the day
wildflowers dot the fields
dressed in their Sunday best
the river of contentment flowed onward
out to the ocean of enchantment
while seagulls make easy...
#beauty
#sea
#flowers #nature
#flowers #nature
322 reads
2 Comments
Cipher_O
Poem Published
8th Sep 2021 2:12pm
8th Sep 2021 2:12pm
Cytherean Eldorado
These uncharted waters
are dizzying
& disturb
The orientaion
of
hight
depth
distance
&
time;
I have forgotten who I am
or where I came from,
In search of Cythera
or Eldorado -
Because I had nothing better to do,
or,
Because
I
was
looking
For
the
equivalent
of
You.
are dizzying
& disturb
The orientaion
of
hight
depth
distance
&
time;
I have forgotten who I am
or where I came from,
In search of Cythera
or Eldorado -
Because I had nothing better to do,
or,
Because
I
was
looking
For
the
equivalent
of
You.
#love
#beauty
#sea
#universe
#nature
320 reads
2 Comments
dartford
Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
20th Apr 2022 00:42am
20th Apr 2022 00:42am
a ship, upon sighting land
he was an undiscovered poet on a desert island until somebody saw his foot steps in the sand and said I recognise him
#sea
226 reads
3 Comments
Wafflenose
Ellie
Ellie
Poem Published
29th Apr 2023 11:41pm
29th Apr 2023 11:41pm
Sea Glass
Just like peering into
an irregular shard of sea glass,
its edges worn smooth by the ocean,
that which we see of our lives right now
is but a partial reflection, and poor.
We catch fleeting glimpses
but do not see the full picture
or know the end of our story—
just as we do not know
the story of the sea glass;
from where it came, or to where it goes.
We are short-sighted at best;
can only guess at the future
and make decisions based upon
the here and now.
Still, there is beauty in the moment
if we...
an irregular shard of sea glass,
its edges worn smooth by the ocean,
that which we see of our lives right now
is but a partial reflection, and poor.
We catch fleeting glimpses
but do not see the full picture
or know the end of our story—
just as we do not know
the story of the sea glass;
from where it came, or to where it goes.
We are short-sighted at best;
can only guess at the future
and make decisions based upon
the here and now.
Still, there is beauty in the moment
if we...
#sea
#beach
#SelfReflection #NaPoWriMo2023
#SelfReflection #NaPoWriMo2023
144 reads
4 Comments
Naajir
Poem Published
1st Aug 2018 6:00pm
1st Aug 2018 6:00pm
Lagoon
in the
open wilderness we
breathe as one walking along
the jagged tales of salted rock and
the splashing songs hidden
in rising tides
we are
lovers lost and found on
a faraway lagoon
marooned under the watchful eye
of our guardian moon
where we share love laughter
food and drink
we rest
inside the shelter of
enfolding arms and spread thighs ...
open wilderness we
breathe as one walking along
the jagged tales of salted rock and
the splashing songs hidden
in rising tides
we are
lovers lost and found on
a faraway lagoon
marooned under the watchful eye
of our guardian moon
where we share love laughter
food and drink
we rest
inside the shelter of
enfolding arms and spread thighs ...
#love
#sea
#nature
576 reads
6 Comments
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