Best Landlocked Poems

Seagull's cry---a cruel lie---           
     where desert sand o'erlays the land 
          'neath rocks and sage.
                  
So far from home, he's doomed to roam
     where ocean thoughts all come to...

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rolling up
with pedaled breath
I came upon the mounded snow
that telltale shape
in streetlight glow
my prize! 
my goal!
crumpled bills, rising hope
I spilled off my bike
ran up that shoveled icy slope
cracking door, splitting light
I threw the cash, I grabbed the key
my hopes now soaring above the night!
(no more...

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LANDLOCKED

landlocked we stalk past pain perimeters
guns rest roughly slung on shoulders hung
closing behind growling within
scoping targets empty claim
weapons lead worlds astray
cast our sins away
lords of nothing
eyes survey
stark hearts
lost



© Kim van Breda—24 September 2015...

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Longing for the sea,
the foam soaking my hair;
Longing for the  breeze, 
to carry my song on the air;
For gills and a tail
I’d gladly give this life;
Longing for the day 
I don’t have to come back; 
Longing for a time 
the Sun is my only...

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