Poetry About Waves

Poetry about waves listens to water's repeated arrival: crash, foam, pullback, return, tide, shore, and the ancient rhythm of motion meeting resistance.

Waves can soothe or overwhelm, carry light or warning, erase footprints or announce a storm. These poems honor both their music and their power.

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Return

A poem about the rhythm of waves.

The wave returned again and again, not because it had forgotten the shore, but because returning was its song.

- Mira Coast

Foam

The edge of water.

Foam wrote lace on the sand, then vanished before anyone could call it fragile.

- Theo Vale

Big Water

Respect for ocean power.

The ocean sounded like a room too large for argument.

I stepped back, and called that wisdom.

- Nora Tide

Micro Verses

A wave returns because return is its music.

- Mira Coast

Foam is lace written in disappearing ink.

- Theo Vale

Respect begins where the ocean sounds larger.

- Nora Tide

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Rhythm

Poems about return, tide, and repetition.

Again

Again, said the wave, and the shore understood.

- Mira Coast

Power

Poems about force, respect, and deep water.

Step Back

Stepping back was not fear.

It was listening.

- Nora Tide

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