Long Shoreward Poems

Flutter dear heart
Let this mystery start
Of entwined lace
And God’s holy grace
With scented chiffon flowing
Smoke from the chimney blowing
And stifled salted tears
From memories through the years.
Melancholy laments
What my love represents.
Indispensable betrothed vows
That soft emotions arouse.
Paradox wandering...

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CHAPTER 9c

Swift a sand shark spiraled nearer
Baring teeth it eyed them coldly
Han spun full about and kicked it
In the center of its body
 
But at this the sand shark merely 
Shrugged and moved off several...

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Chapter 11c (The Island Kingdom, continued...)

Every member of the party
Had their fill of roasted sea-flesh
All the dogs and Rosy also 
Wolfed down all that they could swallow 
 
Then they rose up and departed
Heading north...

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Odyssey from Africa 
Chapter 9b (continued)


And this pattern was repeated 
On the following day's journey 
As the day turned into evening 
They again found rocky shoreline 
 
So once more they hunted shellfish 
This time...

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I would help man evolve toward God’s Dreams for this life
And not strive just for mites (some ascribe to have worth?)
(In God’s Will) let us humbly trust Grace is God’s Gift
To a sinner who can’t...

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Though a sad day goes,
And a sad night comes
(For my Dear's not here with me),
I will bring up living
Our first love's giving,
When out of the sea came she.

Her leap was as sweet wind was,
Singing sweet,...

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I live in Arrubluc by the sea
much like the fabled Llareggub
made famous by Dylan Thomas
in the radio play 'Under Milk Wood'.
The land meets the sea here as well,
but it's a beachside town, beside the sea,
not...

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Can you get my point and drift?
It’s in my free verse and also rhyme.
They say ‘Life’s a beach’
I say, “All the time” 
and there’s a beach for everyone, and all!
It accepts incoming the tidal withal.
From...

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As I move forward in this life,
I continually remember what's been done.
Hilarities and happiness, sorrows and strife,
ever feeling like yesterday's son.

Some time ago I felt constrained by such,
as if yesterday's gravity held me fast.
Since, there's...

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She played the harp, I fell in love,
It was easy don’t you see?
I was only six or seven,
She was youngish, twenty three.

I was sitting with my parents
And her concert was in town,
Harp and voice reaching...

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Scattered Ash
         by Odin Roark

The urn is tipped
Scattered ash enjoins
Jetstream
Jetsam
Flotsam
Atop the winds and currents
Nature's gathering
Knowing not yet
The next evolution of life's decay

Possibility awakens
This consciousness beyond our own
This...

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Dry Dry Dry
There's a beer river up at San Miguel. We went up there to the brown river. A little wooden boat carried our souls. Not to safety. We all fell into the beer river!...

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Tropical breezes waft across a sea of empyrean bliss as
a lost ship, the The Golden Dragon,
cast it’s indigo shadow upon turquoise waters.

Parrots preening one another,
were the welcoming party for weary travelers.
whispering leaves on trees twisted...

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The opus leggy grasses sing in the gusts
Curious hands stretched across the blade tips
Inviting the musty scene of autumns blush

Candy orange blossom apple crisp
Cherry red brush ablaze over the fields
A meadows laughter, a meadows wish

Gathering...

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Shoreward

People often ask, why things are unfair
I suppose it always will be, everywhere
To some degree, as long as people don’t see
The truth and go about with their pleas

I find great sadness in such misconception
I wish...

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The latter years some people fear
When approacing shed many tears
But now at end I seek good deeds
My mature soul does richly feed

When in the mirror I look__change
Even sometimes seems very strange
But on the inside my...

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No darkness of session
To light in the mind
I get the impression
That love is not blind

I can say with good reason
As I do in this rhyme
With love always in season
Stop wasting your time

If paddling shoreward
And leaving...

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May this sacred bond bring you
all the things marriage should bring. 
All the exquisite joys of life
patience, love, and understanding.

The circle of love beings with
the purest and truest friendship.
And transcends into a bond
of long-lasting relationship.

Love...

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~ A magic love potion ~


Gazing out over the ocean
   My eye caught the crest of a wave
Dreaming of a magic love potion
   That could our faint-beating hearts yet save
from the...

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Chasing my dreams I leave no stone unturned
and I reach for the stars even if the sun burns.
No holds barred, I tug myself forward
with unbounded strength, like a ship moving shoreward. 

An everlasting love for...

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