Best Swell Poems

Being Your Eyes for Swell 2007
Swell: Currumbin Sculpture Festival
 
For Fred
Picture us arm in arm, strolling,
the crunch of sand underfoot,
the scent of sea air, the touch of sea wind
on our skin, again on the beach at Currumbin.
 
Your eyes are failing now
yet, with my words...

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life swells to be then contracts to be more ~ signed swell to be



   4/25/2021

   Paradox of Life Poetry Contest
   Sponsored by JCB Brul...

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Hey Tom, you look well cared for and well fed,
Sure you longed to sleep in your own bed,
You must've had pain, hope they spoiled you,	
More medication, preferred a whiskey or two,
Which nurse did you like best, which one a dread.
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stream swells as it rains
ants float on curled leaf life boats
frogs jump in to bathe...

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Tossing out food is clearly a waste of money honey 
     maybe even immoral, not to donate would be a shame
              feed Gods creatures, somebody very nice
O' good idea, put your money where your mouth is, none to blame

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Her power, unrestrained, sweet as honeysuckle rose
                    Doth grant me, but a glimpse, of what I rave to find
       ...

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Watching waves, to and fro
tumble and rise, above the flow

blues and greens and similar shade 
waves of trees as your background of the cascades

Majestic mountains compliment your immensity
Oregon beaches' natural proclivity
 
guided by the moon's lead to dance
crashing waves leaving me entranced

how I crave 
the...

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Beware the distant storm, you tiny ripple
Ignore the tempest and fettered thought
Blame naked shells and open cockles 
For only they to the sand this anger brought

Red tattered flags, fluttering warning signs
Aside a tower vacantly minding the shore
Trembling hand raises weakly above the tide
Ripped by fearful...

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shatter the shell and raise the swell
the crispness and swiftness of a  southeaster fell
battered blue lips craving summers breast
the raspberry round,the milk,the nest

an inner thigh by which to sigh
the ears for tongues in which to lie
beneath,between,we two are spun
the speedqueen and the coin
together
one....

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The sunset sets with passion a palette 
of solstice, fire, and goldenrod 
glean my grief with brute force with a mallet. 
Nub of anger and tears bind while thorns prod. 

It looks to take possession of my heart, 
sharp, jagged, stabbing, cutting off feeling 
leaving...

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Behold the blue seaswell
That lifts itself
A glassy morning
Out of the sea's heaving breast:
The open ocean wave
That draws itself
Across the rock reef
Cresting toward the fine pitch
That exhilirates the very air
With a perfect  mane of spray
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Chick was in swell shape
sending hoopla and woopla in mates
walking the planky swanky
she swung the hippy bad
showing the rosy vine tatoo
that sneaked serpentine
from her knee side to rind pine
roses blinking pluck me pluck me
see you cannot duck me duck me
her midis did a funky fad
her...

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A worm soon comes the heavy swell 
over a person who does well.

Volodymyr Knyr 
2014...

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To speak in words the other longs to hear
To break the smile bank and long disclose
the thumping of the heart when drawing near

affection and the slip of guard it shows
We winter in the warmth of our embrace
We need few words for each of us just...

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The blush and swell of her...was ruthless testament...

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