This week let’s write an ocean poem. It’s a big thing, the ocean, inspiring poets for as long as there’s been poetry. Add your drops in the comments below.
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Monday Poetry Prompt: Ocean
This week let’s write an ocean poem. It’s a big thing, the ocean, inspiring poets for as long as there’s been poetry. Add your drops in the comments below.
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Swanquarter Ferry
The crowds weren’t as large as I expected
Waiting in the sticky summertime air
rich with salt and the smell of low tide
evidence of the dying and living of uncountable numbers of microscopic things
While I was young, I went to the mountains
With their great heights and sweeping views
A place of great power that my youthful mind could see and acknowledge
Where the flow of life was a spectacle in the circus of the seasons
Spring into Summer and Summer to Fall
Fall’s assured slide into Winter and, in due time, back again to Spring
But now I am old and while the mountains still rage on
I will go to sit at the foot of my true teacher
and listen to a drone I heard less clearly in my youth
where each wave is a day
and each tide is a season
and each daybreak an the same as the one before
as the wavelength of my life asymptotes
to a Schumann resonance of all things
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Posted by Chris Clarke | February 22, 2021, 11:39 PMLove the line “the wavelength of my life asymptotes” Great stuff!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 23, 2021, 5:50 PMI wrote a little haiku: https://bartbarkerpoet.com/2021/02/22/ocean-haiku/
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 22, 2021, 9:33 PMI tossed a bottle in the ocean
Note enclosed with wishes
It came back to me
Washed right back to the shore
Inspired
I opened the note
It changed
Make your dreams come true
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | February 22, 2021, 8:11 PMVery interesting take on the prompt. Thanks!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 22, 2021, 8:13 PMHi all~: https://eastelmhurstagogo.wordpress.com/2021/02/22/servant-or-mistress/
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Posted by larry trasciatti | February 22, 2021, 5:34 PMLove those last three lines. Great work!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 22, 2021, 7:18 PMThanks~
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Posted by larry trasciatti | February 22, 2021, 8:02 PMOn point. Those last lines. Wow.
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | February 22, 2021, 8:04 PMThanks~
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Posted by larry trasciatti | February 22, 2021, 8:36 PMNew Normal
Cars crawling on the highway again
signifying the returnimg of the normal life.
But it isn’t normal
that life is filled with rushing,
crowding and fighting for space again.
We learned the lesson from calamities.
But we ditch them like disposal plastics
and let them drown in the open oceans with indigestion.
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | February 22, 2021, 4:59 PMExcellent! Love the calamities like plastics simile.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 22, 2021, 7:17 PMThank you!
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | February 23, 2021, 1:46 AMExcellent. Will we ever learn?
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | February 22, 2021, 8:06 PMI hope we learn as much we can
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | February 22, 2021, 9:33 PMDavy Jones Locker!
I’m only here for the fish.
Pass the lemon wedge.
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Posted by JeanMarie | February 22, 2021, 3:34 PMI can really enjoy that kind of lifestyle
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Posted by larry trasciatti | February 22, 2021, 5:33 PMHa! I just had a fish sandwich for dinner.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 22, 2021, 7:15 PMOysters Rockefeller. Cheers as the glasses clink.
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | February 22, 2021, 8:06 PMThe Ocean
Created of small drops of water
a salted sea that fills the world
its ebb and flow
like thoughts of the mind
rise and crash of waves
like changes of heart
constant movement
inspirer of dreams
whether seaside
or sailing across its surface.
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Posted by purplestoneblog | February 22, 2021, 8:06 AMthanks.
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Posted by purplestoneblog | February 22, 2021, 1:08 PMLove the ebb and flow like thoughts of the mind. Great work!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 22, 2021, 7:14 PMthanks
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Posted by purplestoneblog | February 22, 2021, 7:17 PMMakes me want to take a trip.
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | February 22, 2021, 8:07 PM