Long Basalt Poems

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We were looking at pictures from the Mars Reconnaisance Rover.
Dragon became so very excited, and he wanted to go right over.
Before we let him go we showed him Orbiter pics he’d never seen.
Like the Worms...

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With canoe and hook of a jawbone
  below a great fish Maui snared,
and his brothers half-crazed behaving
  leapt and gouged in frenzy craving.
From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga 
 (departing place of the...

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Power points of dimensional spinning graphs are largely placed in cement viewfinders in aerated office space with dome foam chairs. Dome foam chairs are the salt of seats and seating is considered important for lengthy...

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There was a Ringer in the Basalt, Tiger Davis was his name
As an acrobatic stockman, he was gifted with some fame
On the station quite a hero, but a maniac in town
He didn't win too many,...

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Inspire me.... 
Even as I attempt this 
Iambic nonsense 
How can silence, 
Emanate from chaos:
It's direct opposite? 
A pure contradiction of concept...


Crashing, cascading....... 
In a metaphoric ambiance of emotions, 
Anger infused like an avalanche of...

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Red planet in the dark, 
Iron Oxide lights your spark.
In search of great, there is not much greater,
then the planet of valleys, deserts and craters.
Spots of white look not unlike snow,
but, in fact, are storms...

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Looking down I can see
	so many different possibilities
wondering which I shall pick
	and with it then what I shall see

smooth pink stone with pits of white
	will it fit in my fingers just right
that I might flick...

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The beach at Orca Praia – Funchal Madeira

The powerful deep blue ocean
Expends its tidal force
Pounding down upon sea pebbles
With thud and smash so coarse

Watching from a vantage point
From the horizon to the shore
The lines of...

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COLORBLINDNESS


I had a confused childhood  cos I was colorblind
But still I was the  logical  and persistent kind.

I would ask mum what color - maybe brown?
No, she’d say   - it’s beige,...

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Light a chord progression of sulphur, silver and mist
Set it serpentine and weight the tail 
Fixed upon jewel eye, begin your pass between upright columns
Dimly ribbed it clasps the shallowing shadow
Growing pale from black with...

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I miss you, already
Your rough beauty
How you pretend to be wild
Being already postmodern.
The swings in your mood
Welcoming and repelling me,
Caressing me, bringing me down.
Your invitations to dive into sins
Gluttony, sloth, lust and death -
When in...

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Out at sea on the flimsy raft
My Zorro mask and Tarzan pants can't help
Used only to wipe my brow under the punishing sun
I lost them too after a while by a crashing wave
What could be...

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(In the 17th century, when thinkers
were first getting to grips with gravity,
they named it "kindly inclining".)

Seeds adrift on water 
coalesce: 
fueled by affinity, 
they form a community. 

Last pearls of wine 
combine: 
electing against space,...

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Stepping over the threshold
Locating the floor buttons
I press the 3rd floor

~ my brain images still flashing ~

Disfigured long flames curl around
Cherished memories-

Dry spruce branches smoking and crackling
Glowing coals cooking steaks in a fire
Above the crashing...

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Marble breasts, Translation of Etiemble’s poem: Les Seins de marbre by T. Wignesan
				
						For Eugène Guillevic

(An eleven line poem of between ten and twelve syllables lines, with the following end-rhyme scheme: aaabbcddeec)

The breasts that you sculpt...

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Lake Superior


Strong- shouldered waves crested
the rocks below Split Rock Lighthouse
with frothering glee-

happy to be home among the orange-lychen,
basalt-boulders  and Gulls-

high above the lake, mountainous columns
of clouds drifted in legions towards Canada,
against a sky so...

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https://allpoetry.com/poem/14732450-Cosmos-by-Chrisbreva1?c=1166602438

Adding numbers on fire
Stars burning in the night
Lightning chiseling basalt stones
Statues speaking to fight the tides
Thunder hunting a pruning fork
Eliot staring at Mars descent
Venus is dancing in his lap.

Volcanoes bringing mountains down
Fighting whales eating caviar
Men...

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Redoubtable, unparalleled
Victoria Falls displays the
power of the Zambezi  River.

Carving through basalt rock
from an ancient volcano the Zambezi  
deserves the awesome accolades of its
native audience - the Smoke that Thunders.

Work more trenchant still, this...

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COASTLINES

Wearing medallions on their shoulders,
The hero  waves of the Aegean 
Smooth rounded boulders. 
Brightness outside, and shadow deepness, 
Ruins of civilization with  columns, 
Calming wind and heat haze  - solemn
Olives clinging to...

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