Barefoot Earthling
...It's taken me sixty years
Of evolution
To realise the simplicity
Of Earthen electricity
My naked feet, like freshly cleaned
Battery terminals
Strolling in hilarity
To observe correct pola...
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Categories:
combers, creation, crush, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Daddy Rooster Laughs
...Hens are not meat eaters
They do not like it at all
But the giant sixty-foot hen had the beach combers running that fall
She strutted back and forth
Giving them all the evil eye
I think it is ...
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Categories:
combers, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Beach's End
...I saw her footprints daub the sand
no other tracks to show, just then
late afternoon, near August's end
a meeting that we hadn't planned
I'd left in spite of stormy skies
decid...
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Categories:
combers, beach, ocean, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
Ticking Time
...a mystical flying marauder
soared in from space
ten thousand years of time
throughout my two hours
fathom out the lake, icicle has risen
an utter lack of pulse and recess of air
we ...
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Categories:
combers, analogy, humanity, inspirational, space,
Form: Free verse
Masked Isolation
...Fire lust of the angry clouds doth cover envy
To fork the stars upon my ever-changing view.
The crestling being i endure to hold of many
Foreign thoughts to translate a bonafide rue.
Carnival o...
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Categories:
combers, dark, death, depression, dream,
Form: Ballad
Surfing Life
...The world had caved in on me once again and I counted the pressure
looked outside and felt sad unbalanced restless and torn from myself
Wild winds were brewing and surfing the waves seemed out ...
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Categories:
combers, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Sun and Sand Minichu
...Blinded by shining shards of sunlight
reflecting off sandy summer shores,
give pause to wonder what unworldly sight
hides beneath ocean’s watertight doors.
The Sun, father of the shoreline
ins...
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Categories:
combers, beach, ocean, romance, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Heaven's Servant - Grasses
...Heaven’s Servant
The grass of the earth The King of Heaven generously gave
People to enjoy Kentucky Bluegrass nice lawn, nutritious hay,
Timothy grass highly cultivated and seed easily harvested...
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Categories:
combers, beach, beautiful, beauty, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Last Year's Nests
...Tide out ...
Swells break far and creep slow,
sweeping tender 'cross washboard flats
where they used to dance -
where they lauded the ebullience of life
in purpose ... and pairs.
B...
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Categories:
combers, animal, bird, environment, missing,
Form: Free verse
Castaway Memories On Distant Shores
...Over the horizon,
on distant shores
lies my message in a bottle
cast askew on the beach
with other remnant memories
and hopes in tatters scattered
strewn among the drift wood debris
dead sold...
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Categories:
combers, beach,
Form: Free verse
Only Twenty Years
...ONLY TWENTY YEARS
Who can know the future of twenty years
And discount the dim offerings of Gateshead?
What 12 year old can imagine
The emptiness of prairies in Montana
Or smell from fif...
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Categories:
combers, adventure, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Chi - Rho In the Book of Kells
...CHI - RHO IN THE BOOK OF KELLS
A millennium and more since it left the Scottish shore,
Chi -Rho Christ’s name
Swirling in an anaesthetising trance induces
The soul-memory back to a...
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Categories:
combers, bible, history, ireland, religion,
Form: Imagism
In Old California 2
...At Peralta the combers break but low,
and boats do carry mates ashore with ease.
Yet they are safe since waves are no big foe.
The harbor's deep and wide with gentle breeze;
in winter, weather's ...
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Categories:
combers,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
In Old California
...Chaucer's Stanzaic Form
Iambic Pentameter
In sunny Southern California late,
when grandiose Dons rode their charging steeds,
and women deemed that males should rule their fate,
vast cattle ran...
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Categories:
combers,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Vikings
...VIKINGS
Erik went east to Yamal peninsula’s spring
For Russian hides and terrifying antlers
From the world’s biggest reindeer herd,
In April crossing the thawing Ob River,
Safe from pr...
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Categories:
combers, boat,
Form: Free verse
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