Looking for poems about the beach, ocean, etc.

[stevedeshazer]

Hi, I'm making a wedding present for my daughter in the form of pictures and thoughts from our many trips to the ocean. Need some poetry....

[Bombtrack]

1. One, two, three, four

Singing in the sunshine, laughing in the rain
Hitting on the moonshine, rocking in the grain
Aint no time to pack my bag, my foots outside the door
Got a date, I cant be late, for the high hopes hailla ball.
got a hell hound on my t(r)ail
cause its hell Im headed for
(no one really knows which one it is)

Uh-huh! oh oh yeah!

Singing to an ocean, I can hear the oceans roar
Play for free, play for me and play a whole lot more, more!
Singing bout good things and the sun that lights the day
I used to sing on the mountains, then the ocean lost its way.
Ive been there (I dont know? )
Oh oh yeah!

Oh, yeah!

Na na na..., la la la...

Sitting round singing songs til the night turns into day
Used to sing on the mountains but the mountains washed away
Now Im singing all my songs to the girl who won my heart
She is only three years old and its a real fine way to start.
Oh yeah!

It sure is fine!
Blow my mind!
]](hes saying _something_ here)
Yeah yeah!

Do wop a diddly diddly........

Oh, so good!

[mzteris]

2. some links for you......

http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/beach/

http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/ocean/


What a wonderful gift for your daughter! May her new hubby be as thoughtful as her Dad.

:hug:

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Look here

http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/beach/


and here:

http://www.poemsabout.com/beach/page-9/

[stevedeshazer]

4. Thanks

you've helped!

[RetroLounge]

5. Wallace Stevens

The Idea of order at Key West

RL

[stevedeshazer]

7. Great one, best so far

Thanks!!

[Zomby Woof]

6. "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold

The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand;
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegaean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.


Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

[stevedeshazer]

8. I especially like the final stanza

Thanks, ZW.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. How about a lake?

This is the first free verse poem I ever had published. If I recall correctly it was in '82 or thereabouts.
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THE LAKE

The still, blue waters of my mind
reflect the thoughts that I might see-
A ripple stirring in the lake; the circles
moving out and past, to fade away and die.
But currents tug this way, and that-
the tangents are profound!
My thoughts just wander
'round the lake
and shimmer silently...

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