sea | a poem in my pocket

see sea shells

06 Feb 2025 15 Comments

by lynn__ in sparrowlet Tags: abalone, beach, sailboat, sand, sea, shells, waves

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by curl of sea, walk curve of sand
wet feet make footprints on dry land
while combing beach for shells we see
to reach, pick up, turn palm of hand
and rinse sand off in waves as we
walk curve of sand, by curl of sea

find abalone, dig clams and snails
put cockleshells in handled pails
spot cowrie, conch or spiraled cone
look up to watch wind fill boat sails
search pools of inter-tidal zone
dig clams and snails, find abalone

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Check out dVerse poets where Laura reintroduces us to the “sparrowlet” form…

dibble~toes

08 Jun 2022 11 Comments

by lynn__ in ekphrastic Tags: sand, sea, surf

*Summer Day, Brighton Beach by Edward Henry Potthast*

seaside holiday

playing cat-and-mouse with surf

transport sand home

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A senryu for dVerse poets where Merril hosts ekphrastic poetry.

mariner’s musings

17 Mar 2020 23 Comments

by lynn__ in tercet Tags: foghorn, freedom, lighthouse, mariner, memories, sailor, sea, ship

when warmer air stirs sweet memories on
those youthful days when he sailed waves of sea
feeling of freedom worth dreaming upon

he watched the sky in experienced way
and listened for foghorn’s woeful low sound
to safely guide ship back into the bay

love of the sea understood beyond speech
lives on after old sailor’s laid to rest
like signal of lighthouse on rocky beach

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Laura Bloomsbury challenges us to write three tercets in pentameter (optional) with set rhyme scheme. Linking to dVerse Poets…

celtic music

21 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by lynn__ in music poem, senryu Tags: Celtic, Ireland, music, pocket, sea, stone

Irish folk music featured at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. This song was produced a few years ago by a Celtic band, Eden’s Bridge, and sung by Sarah Lacey.

https://youtu.be/mHLcJ0aXR2g

seek a shiny stone

gaze down, collect in pocket

miss glory of the sea

renga with basho

30 Jun 2018 8 Comments

by lynn__ in haiku, renga Tags: crow, junk, koi, moon, sea, watchman

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai’s ”Renga Challenge” create a renga with haiku by Basho.

rainy season

sea glow lights held up

by the night watchman

pale koi bubble to surface

paddle junk into harbor

the blue sea

in waves smelling of saké

tonight’s full moon

sitting with friend on the beach

quietly sip from warm cup

on a bare branch

a crow settled down

autumn evening

vermillion koyo fallen

colors faded with sunset

Haiku © Basho (Tr. Jane Reichhold) Renga response © lynn__

dynamics of yin & yang

03 Jun 2018 6 Comments

by lynn__ in haiku, troiku Tags: benediction, marriage, moonrise, rocks, sea, sunset

Meoto Iwa, or the “Loved one and loved one” Rocks, are a couple of small rocky stacks in the sea off Futami, Mie, Japan. They are joined by a shimenawa (a heavy rope of rice straw) and celebrate the union in marriage of man and woman. At low tide, the rocks are not separated by water.