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Juggling responsibilities against the tug of gravity
in an effort to keep my head above the fickle tides.
Steering a true course by the examples that stars have set
by illuminating the preferred trajectory.
The dropped ball can’t be blamed on the ball.

For Brian

I close my eyes  on this Warm Summer Day
And  slowly my mind is lead  far away 
Back to another time so long ago
And to melodies I remember so 
The music of Surfin Safari to Surfin USA 
There was no mistakin Brian’s talent had introduced  a new 
Music  craze 
Why there wasn’t anybody who  didn’t take  part in the songs, the cars, the Surfin,  and the Girls 
Especially the girl’s
Like the man said he wished  they  all  could be California Girls 
Why it was all summer long  that they  enjoyed all the  fun  fun fun 
But don’t worry baby they always wandered back in their room until it was Time to catch  a wave and once  again they were sitting on top of the  world 
And now the time has come  for brother  Brian to join Dennis and Carl 
All three united again
In the far distance one can hear music calling out like 
A long lost friend 
As those good vibrations gently fall from heaven on to the  sea 
Smiling down  the three  brothers see
In the  far distance the Sloop John B 




In Memory of Brian Douglas Wilson of the Beach Boys

Brian Strand Contests

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Brian Short

Your album cover
Anything for a Laugh
seems candlelight lit
arched churchways
and smoke from village Chimneys
sepia daybreak
angel clouds jettisoning
with yellow filter

You died in Newcastle
broken by the rain, 
only one album
and a few credits
cherished by a few

Premium Member Mr Brian Strand

Imagist poet
Prolific blogger
Father of footles
Contest creator
Emagi guru

Aural art form
‘As is moment’
“ichthyschiro”
YouTube poet

For he’s a
most jolly
good fellow

So say
all of

Us

Premium Member After the Ice Storm - hiku for Brian


ice-encased tree limbs
glisten in dawn’s stillness . . .
a lone fawn wanders


Premium Member A Winter Hiku For Brian

thinking of Christmas
we trudge through deep forest snow . . .
pine needles trailing

Premium Member A Song For Brian

the sky glows in pastel pink as the wind whispers~
a song for Brian

Premium Member Summer Hiku For Brian

zephyr breezes by
as I lounge in my garden
with eyelids heavy

Brian Finds Breakfast - Nursery Rhyme

Look at Brian the badger 
   Slinking through the grass
Sleeping Susan rabbit 
   Doesn't see him pass.

Hunting for his breakfast
   Every single night
Brian's not very fussy
   He simply wants a bite.

Finds a broken ladder,
   Scratches on a rung,
At last he finds some breakfast
   He licks it with his tongue!

Did that make you hungry?
   Is this story real?
I guess you're looking forward
   To tomorrow's meal?

01 March 2023

I Am Harry Anaya Brian Ricci

R recently, power outages takes us BACK - ward
E ven reading & commenting here is rare
A naya & Harry Horsman, Brian Sambourne, Lisa
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Do remind me how comments feed poets' souls

P.S. This is a thank you poem to those who read and comment to encourage me. REQUEST: Please comment especially on poets who have few readers or fewer comments, or may be new. I encouraged a new PS Poet from Andorra last week, but I did not understand the poem or language (Celtic?). I don't expect any response, but I'm glad we have poets from so many unusual places with talent & Ubuntu. Deo

PPS. I could not fix errors in my post, or edit ( until now), because our power supply in my province in RSA,vwas disrupted ( by supplier ESKOM) for 6 hours: Stage 6 loadshedding. FYI or shock, Google, "RSA: electricity, Eskom, corruption, death threats." See?

Premium Member Souper Brand of Brian Strand

I shoulda seen it comin’ my way - 
The Judgment Day

Bears the brunt of judging as gold 
Rakes piles of entries, old and new 
Insists - "completely up to you"
As long as you do as you're told 
Note, read the blog to make it through 

Submissions, like lava, pour in 
Tempting many soupers to win 
Review as you give it a shot 
Ace of Judges snubs dull and bland 
No to acrostic, rhymed or not 
Dare I disobey Brian Strand

Strand’s contests I deem Brian’s Blast - 
Meaning high praise and no shade cast! 

January 4, 2023

Premium Member I Don'T Want To Read Your Blog Brian Strand

I Don't Want To Read Your Blog Brian Strand.
I just want to write a poem.
I'm done with instructions.
I'm done with obedience.
I'm done with the topsy.
Just give me the turvy.
Turvy, turvy, turvy all the time.
I'm done with repetition.
I'm done with repeating myself.
Give me two minutes and I'll make you a paper airplane.
Give me four minutes and I'll make your 2 paper airplane.
Our mouth is the hangar for all ideation sounds.
Then you have these vagabond words,
Escaping without an open hole,
Utilizing these stringy little fingers,
Doing some sort of Fred Astaire number.
Someone call the word plumber.
This be clogged.

Premium Member Mr Brian Strand

Mr. Brian
You stun
Mr. strand
You stand
you judge
never misjudge
your poems
are gems
My rhymes
at times
are lame
and shame 
you chime
all time
at whom
my boom
Aroze
with rose
words flow
it's no
done correct
you select
you read
indeed
too much
no catch
always stoic
no trick
will miss
your bliss.


Written: August 27, 2021


FOOTLE FINALE Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand

Premium Member Cheers Brian

What will we do with the poems we’ve written
pampered and teased like a fluff ball fur kitten
ironed them out to conform to a form
a mystical mystery outside of the norm?

Where will we go for a question, a thought
insightful lessons, relearned and retaught
Who will we ask for a hint, for a clue
a debt for the muse that will never come due.

How will we fill those scribbles of time
doodles on paper with no sense of rhyme
answer the question in voice or in phrase
prepare for an eloquent end of these days?

It has been said “we take mentors for granted
Until we see bloom the seeds that they planted."


John G. Lawless
8/27/2021

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