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# Island Chains
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/island-chains/
- Published: 2023-01-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: each man is an island, but all in one ocean, in life giving waters that ripple and churn the waters, they carry, in roundabout motion ideas, like seeds, to each island in turn
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

each man is an island, but all in one ocean,  
in life giving waters that ripple and churn  
the waters, they carry, in roundabout motion  
ideas, like seeds, to each island in turn

as some islands bloom with all manner of flotsam  
and others turn desert, dead shells on the beach  
life doesn't give up and keeps coming, although some  
determined old atolls remain out of reach