Long Sandbar Poems

1)The Awakening 

I know when fantasies became boundless,
it was the first time I sat on the pier;
Bellowing aqua swells rolled in endless
the ocean’s melody hung in my ear; 

Suddenly the size of a grain of...

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Once upon a time in the lands from the north, south, east to west    
Navigating on the cold white sands formed of sugar and ice       ...

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the Yuguang Island is quiet and peaceful 
the sunset tower made from the washed up woodwork and string
along the coast of Tainan elicits a sense of awe and beauty 
the colorful sky, the waves on...

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Before times were hard, they were simple.

The dew bloomed in your 6AM eyes
Your heart was a candle sat on a cottage table kitchen
But hearts aren’t meant to be kept inside cottages
Or barnside silos
The wax dripped...

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Our riverbank launch at dawn
where dense forest chills the breeze,
where cottonwood leaves flutter like wings,
and weeping willow penumbras tease.

Glistening, rippling turquoise water churns.
Crystal swirling pools symphonic and aglow,
elliptic aluminum crafts coast over craggy stones, 
riverbed...

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Man it is bitter cold, and the oar is gone floating down river fast.
My canteen has whiskey, so I take a swig; knowing it has to last.
Where are my matches? I ponder so I grab...

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He walked up from the lake
Throwing open the door of the glorious day
Like a smiling OB-GYN snapping off his gloves
With a toolbox in hand
Delivered to my dad the good news.

“I’m certain this new ignition will...

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We all face moments of decision in our lives…when we might feel alone…
as if stranded on a sandbar….
Where what we choose to do in those moments…for those moments…
determine who we are.

Moments when a decision is...

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Been months since I've been fishin', underneath the starry skies,  
Been months since I've been fishin', underneath the starry skies,  
Next week I'll go for stripers, with me I'll bring some pie.

I fish...

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Portuguese-man-of-war,
knocking on the ocean's door.
Making the moon shine in the mist,
of this and that, and that and this.

The seacow and the seaweed meet,
and brush the sand off their feet.
Then sit and watch the waves roll...

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O emptiness of space, thy harpsichords. Whole?
Panels out of place, looking-glasses smashed.
Bitter winds, thy frost. Sickness, dole, O soul.
Chaffy grain beneath the tired thresher slashed.
Turmoil, tamarisk tree. Toil? Thunderbolt.
Hated are the days of life gone...

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In the hot A-Ga-Ming night
My wife and I skip the July 4th fireworks
At the sandbar down south on long Torch Lake

Start our own shoreline fire

Count the red electrified dorsal fins
Of the motorboat salmon swimming upstream
Migrating...

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On display, million dollar vessel in canal's sunk tide
Tucked away, among mangrove mud clotted denial
Puce pearl oily oyster tender is tenebrous, enduring
Glorified twilit stygian tomb stratum, fruit forbidden

 
Subtly shell punctured soluble beach, myriad shards
Enigmatic...

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What a day of fun and sun
As the sandbar ebbed closer to the shore
Allowing family, friends to wander the depths without 
Fear of the unknown, without apprehension

The sun stayed bright upon us
Allowing us joy together,...

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The Red Parasol 


Into this painting, I am drawn,
     reflecting times of long ago:
a beach with shoreline of tall grass;
     two lovely girls with skirts that flow.

How...

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Tomorrow a foreboding — where a shovel and daisy thrive.
Prepare yourself with the wind of the sea and coconut-salt.
Stand upon the dock where the ribboned sky cuts the dark,
and call to your sailor who heartily...

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Falling backwards the recesses of my mind open to complete darkness.  Items hidden long ago asking to break free into today’s light.
  
Storm waves break the sandbar pulling pieces of the world to...

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As I sit on the sandbar and watch the beauty around me in admiration I know that peace
and serenity are in Jehovah's creation. I sit here on this sandbar by the creek and
it brings back...

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Distant green eyes view at snowy peaks.
On the candlelight, a deeply buried pain opens.
The words scattered across the face merge.
Open hearts in nirvana swim.
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I paint the silence wisdom with a pencil
on the birch bark as...

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Upon a translucent lamp lit orb eve,
magical butterflies I did perceive.
I watched them flit without a care,
glistening specters dancing on air.

Flying up into the sky’s caress,
glistening lights of gentleness.
I made a wish upon the dog...

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I will need                                ...

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A cool wind creeps
Across a stagnant Day
Stirring the persistent heat
And pestering bugs away 
Our feet rest chilly
Along the river's bank
Resting on this sandy shoal
Our canoes have found a place
We eat and drink, and the kids...

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Blinkered mind
Insular lonely mind
Happiness can’t find.

Hued clouds
Sunburst dawn sky
Hued clouds fly.

River
Rippling tinged river
Ecstatic air quivers.

The call
Breeze whispers clear
Call of river.

Joy of trees
Trees on sandbar
Dance in air.

Happiness tune
He searches there
Happiness melody inner.

Dancing time
Twilight time runs
He couldn’t...

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We went to that "holler" each summer vacation
Near one hundred acres of mountainside trees
I'd wake up at dawn, take flight to my station
Down at the pond, fishing pole in my hand
On that hot sandbar, all...

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She stood there on the balcony
watching him riding off to war
her heart was full of mutiny
crushed she held onto the bar
there would be no matrimony

Juliet was full of acrimony
hating the powerful Tsar
far away the cacophony
the...

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