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Flying the California Coast

Flying the California Coast

My California coastline
A song of endlessly repeating peaks
Singing verses of silence
Whispering unknown refrains

Mossy sand and stone
Thinly veiled and misted
Striated curves 
Etched in stony hardness 
The brain's soft folds
Hide truths unknown
Organic, orgasmic, orchestral
A geology of the heavens

Roads who wander through villages 
Plopped within nature's stomach
Mushroom-like fungi pushing through 
Like octopuses 
They tangle and detangle 
Criss-cross and mingle

Crystalline shards of water
Break upon the plate’s edges
Fields of blue finger the horizon
Interwoven with green and aqua lily pads 
Singing the universe's eternal chorus

Endlessly the same yet always different
As if the granite domes that fracture the skies
Might scatter into grains of sand
Proving again the alchemy of God's creation

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Kathleen Kroll

Date: 6/27/2018 8:02:00 PM

Thanks for reading!! Keep writing! Kathy

Old Buck

Date: 6/27/2018 7:36:00 PM

Your name was brought to my attention today. I thought I'd start at the beginning. This is a lovely piece, well written and descriptive. Keep them coming and thanks for sharing with all of us on the soup. oldbuck

Manu Ranjini

Date: 4/23/2017 2:22:00 PM

Happened to accidently read it.. But worth reading... Your way of expressing is great..really appreciable...lovd the third stanza.. U r really a great poet...hearty wishes, Kathleen.

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 8/27/2016 3:59:00 AM

It is so nice to meet you Kathleen. I truly love your style and your ability to express in such colorful imagery your views. This is an exceptional piece! A belated warm welcome to poetry soup. 7 Aloha, Connie ; )

Kathleen Kroll

Date: 3/7/2016 9:30:00 PM

I so appreciate your encouragement. It means a lot! Thx for sharing. i'm already learning so much by reading yours and others' poems. I have family in Cambria and we have been lucky enough to spend some extended time there the past few years. Yes, the elephant seals do put on quite a show..

Daniel Turner

Date: 3/7/2016 8:18:00 AM

Love the Cal. coastline. I particularly like the Monterey area. Love the seals and am a big fan of Steinbeck. This is a really nice write also. You have a lot of talent. It's really hard to express what someone is thinking with words. You want other people to see what you are seeing in your own way. You do it well, you are very descriptive . That's good! Peace my dear, keep writing!