haiku and tanka by gennepher

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the carpet
green
with sea bed colours
she dived in
swam away

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ambling
along
water’s edge
she sang a song
without words

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sea listened
to her song
without words
sea spray
danced playfully

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sea foam
between
her toes
a memory
sea shells

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gazing seawards
she could almost see
the peace
she felt
from long ago

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a water memory
seeping all around where sound
was felt and not heard

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running
barefoot
along the sand
she turned
watched her footprints fill with water

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the sea becalmed
a reflection more real
than the real thing

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the bottle
with the note in it
finally reached the sea shore intact
no-one saw it
no-one picked it up

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a seagull flying
one wing catching
the setting sun

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tears kept wanting
to leak out of her eyes
was this the sea?

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corked in the bottle
her memories of long ago
scent of deep ocean

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I gaze out to sea
seeing what I cannot
feeling all around

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she always belonged
to nature and to the sea
waited to come home

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the dawn was breaking
wind gently lifting her hair
she dived in the sea

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oceanic
depths
waiting
feeling
silence

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along the sand
your diminishing footsteps
nothing remains

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luminous green waves
rose and foamed
crashed on the shore again
you
were within

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sea forever
serenading
the sandy shore

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she always
carried
a sea-shell

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wrote upon the sand
her whispered name long ago
the sea stole it back

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a brown wooden box
the parting gift he gave her
scalloped shell inside

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saltiness lingered
a long way from home
seashells in glass bowl

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around her neck
a bone carving
of a seahorse

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white waves
wind whipping the foam
touches her back
she turned
sea foam

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arching towards the sky
frisky foam
along water's edge
a white stallion
rears

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your footsteps
washed away by the tide
mine remain

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