Long Boardwalks Poems

One Horse Town


The boardwalks full of people only two stood in the street.
The showdown of the century counting down to thirty feet.

Black Bart said this towns too small for you and I to both be...

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We embarked on an adventure
That was quite quixotic
A scientific dream quencher
Searching for exotics

We started where we thought made sense
Out on the sunning docks
Where perhaps there’d be an immense
Native Great White Butt Ox

We packed all of...

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I will watch the sunrise and the moon set
I will taste oysters and reap mint
I will harvest vegetables from the farm stand

I will live as an orphan adopted
finding joy in rain and in snow

I will...

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A mighty force lurks out of sight
Far out o'er the sea
About to bring a monstrous fight
Like none we've ever seen

The time winds by and on the air
The wind is first to show
It starts out as...

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We took a guided hike through a park last night…a beautiful natural preserve.
and in the dark it is amazing…all the things we could observe.

As the crickets serenaded us…at an alligator on the bank we got...

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Barefoot on the paving slab chill, concrete
feet feel frostbite emanations in their callused souls;
rooftop mystique clamours silent slate triangles,
perched the stray cat observers, red-eyes smoking coals.
Down to the river's edge where swaying reeds
feed mongrel contemplations...

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Ice cream and ices, ice cream and ices
Get your fudgywugies here is screamed
Heard clear emerging from the tunnels
Under the boardwalks promenade shadows 
Loud and clear come good humor men in white
Ridiculous in their black shoes...

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Opened eyes see beyond horizons everything
Behind the dirty ears of crying babies in the bath
Look up to see the future through the galaxies

Go through red lights at 80 miles per second speeding 
There is no...

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Where will we meet again? 
In snow, when the villages 
Are buried in a whiteness
That only a polar bear,
Rolling in the fray of a midnight blizzard 
Could match?

Or...
Rendezvous in mid summer
After the virus 
Is decreased...

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sparkling  dancing sea waves touch the shore with flowing magic
of cobalt blue filaments that reflect the sky   above
oh  endless the huge expanses of pristine shoreline
and the jagged seaward cliffs where cormants...

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Whisper sweet harvest moon 
Cradle me in cooler climes
Softly show me how willingly the tree let's 
Its leaves turn from green to gold
The tree does not complain of age and change
The Leaves do not seek...

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For a fun vacation, I suggest San Diego might be for you
A city with lots of sunshine and warm temperatures and plenty to do
Its proximity to the border gives you lots of Mexican food choices...

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Breezes on boardwalks
                 that carry its essence
Suntans are fragranced
          ...

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“Ice cream, ice cream 
     two for a quarter”
but we were already lining up
Mr. Softee’s* song beckoned

sultry vacation days in the suburbs
no air-conditioning back then
not one neighbor had a pool
so “Slip...

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yesterday's love underneath my pillow...
at night before I go to sleep...
hoping that dreams of you are sweet...
yearning to dream of that far off place...
where we explored possibilities...
hot kisses given in candlelight...
a brush with passion, whispered...

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Milton Bradly....

Condos castles etched in accretions dye along

The boardwalks flower made sorbitol scenes

Number twenty-twos scented sunrises, pastel piers

Neon lights enticing dreamscopes of, breathe....

The box-cars mundane roulette wheels

Spinning mirages of polyesters white gloved, hopes

Let it ride;...

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Along the Shore 
children playing by the score
thrashing, crashing waves endure
echoing power by the hour

The smell of salt is in the air
beach balls bouncing everywhere
seagulls drifting by the pair
boardwalks are the thorough fare
cool, crisp water...

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