Best Sur Poems

Big Sur,
oak and redwood
and open chapparel,
fragile groves of bay & laurel-
run wild...

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Starbright

As I gaze into indigo skies,
Stars are brighter tonight,
Twinkling in the darkness 
Of a new moon.
Orion's belt enchants 
My impassioned heart
As my thoughts of you...

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Alone, in Paris
The flowers sing
Le jardin du Luxembourg
I look at all the pretty ladies
Which one of them pray tell 
Is you
The one who wishes for...

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There is a wind ,  which sketched,
Without my knowledge,  the message;

Autumn had lying words,
On my page.

It was by way of red leaves,
The bird...

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"Burnt Aqua"



I can taste the sun
on my tongue
it spills down 
my throat
like burnt aqua
healing the beating frisson

I am ebony inside
shading in my shadow world
some somnolent...

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Engaged in the beauty of you
a lilac scent of splendor sent
drowning my every thought
in the ripples of your rush

Float deep into my western sky
grab hold...

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Oh
                 to see
life as it is,
   ...

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The feeling of happiness, I see in your smile
Wonder what the secret is, what is her name
How long have you felt this, is it for...

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She wades in until the water reaches her waist,
looks out and continues into the endless sea.
Her imagined long gown floats behind her.

Her little girl shoulder...

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 [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral...

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High on the Normandy cliffs
Looking out over Pointe du Hoc
As cold Atlantic winds whisper out
The names of the brothers I left behind
Now only fine marble...

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L’orgue de la mer - The Sea Organ


Née à l’horizon	

          Born on the horizon

où se meurt...

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La couleur de toi repose sur mes lèvres

roll with me, dear desire 
wrapped in close knit harmony
tongues danced, amidst the dialect
quenching mellow thoughts of me

crimson...

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DISCLAIMER : THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF THE MASSACRE 
IN ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE IN FRANCE WHICH TOOK PLACE
ON JUNE 1OTH  1944
TO MY READERS , " SOME...

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Rêves perdus, rêves morts

Les fleurs dansent
Les fleurs chantent
Le printemps est ici
Je suis, pas loin d'ici


Dans la forêt
Dans une cabine
Caché
Avec mon cœur
Rien ne me touche ici


Je...

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