Long Seawall Poems

Allegheny rail train has been rolling along since dawn.
I can hear the patchy sounds of the horn ushered by the wind.
Sounds at first are muffled but become distinct as the train gets closer.

Gulls hovering over...

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We’re (my pose is gathered this Saturday morning because I made a pancake and bacon breakfast) listening to a Britney Spears song, off one of Leong’s playlists. “I remember when I was about 8,” I...

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Years ago, while I was at work
You approached, and gave me that look.
When our eyes met, on that first day
I glanced at you, and looked away.

My heart was pounding, oh so fast
I never felt this,...

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You are my beacon in the darkness
the bulwark and seawall which protect my shore
the lamp which pierces the stormy waters
that surround me
I navigate the deep with the course you set for me
your spirit moves the...

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“Tamam Shud”



Handsome comes
as handsome goes

forgotten
not missed

lies waiting 
intestate 

a code
undeciphered 

Mystery in the end - 
far more interesting 

answers calling
something whispers:

"Death -
open gate ...

Come in"

(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)




"Spin Spin Sugar" / Sneaker Pimps
https://youtu.be/uGPdpWbg5bU




"Police found a book...

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I look up to the sky, while the sun is going down,
A flock of pelicans fly, beyond the seawall mound.
Stars peep out of the dark, from the eastern brim,
The crescent moon marks, streaks of heavenly...

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Since I was a child
An unspoken question 
Has echoed in the hollow 
Of my body 
Carved by sorrow – 

Where were you?

When your chubby baby boy
Climbed out of his crib and
Crawled into the cold bathroom
Where...

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*Image of Seashell On Beach Sand by Pixabay.

"A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish of the men." 
by...

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Our outside road may have a billion steps, but the inward journey has just one: this step. By poet.

                ...

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The night had pitch-black to its edges,
With a darkness considered the last hue.
All light fully extinguished as in a cave,
Like a promise that will never come true.
I sat on a village seawall overlooking a bay,
No...

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The ocean beast leaps forward,
Then slinks back, lying in wait.
It tosses its billowy mane, and,
With a snarl, springs up and pounces
On the slippery black rocks of the jetty,
Frothing at the mouth and
Pawing at the slick...

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I saw a child sitting on a seawall
She had her legs tucked in to her chest with 
Her arms wrapped around them talking to a 
Beautiful mermaid.
I wondered if it was natural for a water...

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The waves dash themselves
Against the rocks,
Sending geysers of spray
High over the seawall,
Half drowning the cars
That are creeping slowly
Through the sandy lakes
Forming on the road.
The wind screams
And pounds its fists in a
Tantrum on car windows.
The angry...

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Appears a ghostly vision, fog in from the sea.
As if sentient in movement,  shrouds all in it's mystique.
With a cyclop eye, lighthouse lends a mournful wail.
While specters breath dampens all, your marrow the chill...

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So there is failure at the guard
And we 
Are back to square one
Seawall tettering over sea
I told them to watch
They did not understand
Such unconscious children
Do they think it was always this
They will know how it...

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Walking along the north end seawall at dusk,
the beach, now quiet, visitors have come and gone
Gentle waves, on the sand, hardly noted.
About to return home, a distinctive sound called to me.
What I hear is the...

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From one end to the other,
I love to take a ride.
What great sites, I get to see,
Down the seawall side.

I like to ride on weekdays,
On my way to work.
Down the beach, makes me forget,
I’m only...

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February Gray


The weather and my mood, dismal as KING 5’s Headline News 
reports of politics, war and a cold rain forecast for tomorrow,
makes me take a break from TV or staring out the window ...

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As I sit and wait, and gaze into
The ocean deep, so beautifully blue.
My thoughts will escape, they tend to fly
I think of you, and begin to cry.

You’re gone for now, but due to return
My stomach...

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Three am In the Windy City. Mother nature reminding them she gave them the nickname. Out of the darkness a surprise came. An angel large in stature also black, operating a Chicago vehicle jack. Wind...

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They stand in regimented
order, lined up on the seawall,
all facing into the wind. 
A slight turn of a body 
catches a squall and sends
an errant gull off balance
forcing it to take flight.
Overhead, some hover,
others bank...

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Stronger by the Hour
David J Walker

It is
            Afterall
Only a wall
Made of words
How many lawyers does it take
       ...

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Whenever I’m alone, 
As usually I am these days, 
I make room to acknowledge 
The weight of my own presence
By minding the tide of my breath. 

It flows in on a four-count 
With the ease...

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I walk down a quiet street, 
in the darkening gloom. 
The evening air, softly sweet,
with the hint of perfume.

The evening is quiet and still,
sounds have faded away.
Street lights come on at will,
the close to another...

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her endless summer dream
gathers dust on its sand encrusted photo of
beach blanket love affairs

jet planes departing for distant lands
she had her five and dime sunglasses
and a transistor radio
tuned to the cheerful forever summer song
still has...

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