Best Sur Poems

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

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knee-deep in flowing verdant grass,
near the creek beside
the hill,


carabao slowly feeds on freedom,
leisurely roams
at will.


on its massive back, white egret,
so delicately
slow-dances,


the feathers of its slender neck
the morning breeze
romances!...

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A Girl on a Bridge

There she was, staring into the night
Paris lights shimmering in a soft glow
Her mind lost, twirling in tears
Confusion wrapping her in a warmth of fear

She dreams of a knife threw her chest
To stab away the darkness of misery
She smiles with hope,...

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The crime is snowed over, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s  Il neige sur le crime

Are we buried under snow holding our silence
in what immense Cimmerian (collision) of terror ?
The mouth kept open in the shriek of interminable shade 
lips held fast in the frozen depths
we...

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Poet:  Ken Jordan
Poem:  Big Sur.
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan
written:  July/2015





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On the Beach, Translation of Etiemble’s poem: Sur la plage by T. 
Wignesan

(The end-rhyme scheme of the orignal : abb(b)a, cdcd, efef, ghgh, iijj, 
klkl, fmfm, nnhh)

How good-looking he was this spy
all studded with sea-shells,
that the sea disgorged on the beach
(that the waves buried on...

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The Triumph of Love over Death

My heart, 
my mind, 
the two have worked together,
Each of them elemented 
and fostered my spirit.
Some day, 
a stranger stepped in 
seeking decent weather;
The guest waited for 
the host to meet 
and gain the merit.
Whose turn is this? 
Whose undertaking?...

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COLLEVILLE  SUR  MER

In uneasy rest
He faces west.
They all face west to America  -
So far away from this beach,
So very far out of reach.

He no longer feels the chinook
Nor the glance of mother’s knowing eye
Over the range on his Utah farm.
He is the...

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The sparkling melody mirrors the waves
Of the peaceful Aegean Sea.
With notes floating to my rousing mind,
Sailing boats is all I see. 

With winds flowing, boats sail forward
Towards cliffs of jagged rock,
From the town on the bluff I watch
Boats drift towards the dock.

That's the scene I...

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On the eyes, no one could truly see;
Through your bundle of joy and beauty.
By a million gazes none could know,
How your soul, feather likened floats.

Lo, deep in my mind, lost in my soul,
There recently came along a part,
Floating carelessly - but till it drew,
near enough....

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Monet's brush strokes blend to show Argenteuil and Seine.
Monet, Renoir prized evoking faded light and scene
Told to Lilla Cabot, US artist "painting means slight around you,"
Frame a blue sib, a rose oblong, a fair line, and paint it as you view.




http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-pag…

Written: February 03, 2022...

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Her assignment was to
create a balsamic? Olive oil glaze
for green onions , roasted yellow pepper, cucumber
to accompany a Sour crème and Cheddar Duchess potato
and a Medium Rare Prime Rib
with a tangy creamy herb gravy.
and a hazelnut Tart
with Cream Pastry and Mango
with a Sweet White Muscat...

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symbolic 
     surreal 
       introspections
 inspirations
        in the complex
radiant 
poetic pastel
           peinture  contemplative 

juxtapositions
     deep imaginings...

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Ode to them
        those that love 
        Ode to those
        who stands opposed
        Until then
  ...

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They watch me as I spend my time
As if they know the score
Sometimes they laugh
Oft times they cry
Out there in nevermore
And as I use their ways of life
In daily situations
They play what if in shadowed halls
Or minor conflagrations
It’s harder now to make a friend
Than e’er...

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