Long Sunbathers Poems

Everything is calm 
Only silence going on 
Getting caught up on speed 
With a quick read 
In the Sunday news 
Not much to lose 
Staring out in a placid lake 
Still visual it does make...

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Have you heard about the Sandsquatch
That used to live below beach sand
Where it could spring out from its watch
And get the upper wing, or hand

To gobble up seagulls resting
Surprising them from where they stood
But often...

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One day an ancient barrel decided it had truly had enough as it tripped over a bale of hay on the staircase. ENOUGH he shouted ENOUGH. But the only thing to hear this cry was...

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wildflower meadow
as tall as a muntjac
cuckoo cuckooing
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farmers haymaking
grasshoppers stridulating
don't touch a stinkbug
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wood admiral glides
honeysuckle its host plant
humid the hot nights
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warm is the river
fish rising leaping for flies
life seeking cool shade
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inverted swimmers
water boatmen taking in air
cygnets...

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White Christmas,
by: Irving Berlin


I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten, and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.


I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas...

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We met at Ocean Beach Park,
so many years ago on a weekend,
where old rock n' roll songs
blasted from the transistor radios.

The beach was covered in density
with sunbathers claiming their spots
children and their pails running around,
you...

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Flowers bloom to the fullest,
Garden of colours and aroma;
Fresh turf covering at full stretch,
A pleasant place for my mama.

A heart that lacks blooming, like mine,
Colours shall fade and perfumes evaporated;
Like dried and wasted grass, that’s...

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A big man
Stands
Roasted pink on the ocean beach
Unleashing his gut over his bathing suit
Holding a can of Miller Lite

Surely a used car salesman in real life

Shows off
In front of a group of friends
Lifts his free...

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In a coastal haven, a small beach town unfolds,
Where names are known, in warmth and tales retold.
Away from city's roar, tranquility is found,
Love and serenity, a comforting surround.

Upon the shore, devoid of sunbathers' claim,
Fishermen prepare,...

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Travel on our steam railway and step back in time
Historic village at Cregneash it really is divine
Enjoy traditional Manx seafood the ’Queenies’ are sublime

Irish Sea surrounds us with its beautiful coastal paths and craggy cliffs
Sandy...

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One Day Soon
One day soon when we’re covid free
there'll be fun for both you and me
Able to hug someone again
as we did in those bygone days.

Oh the joy when freedom has come 
to kiss the...

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Realized Dream

Sabbatical dreams after quarantine,
Sun hint suitcases in unkempt closet,
Copy of an E-ticket stretches trash,
Cellphone replenished, impotent ere long.

A bowl of flakes stifles in cooling milk,
Sunny nook preps up a stylish bud vase,
The label I...

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There’s a little café on the beach,
With a vista of the Andaman Sea,
Where no rowdy children screech,
Nor hordes of adults disturb thee.

Plastic tables and wobbly chairs
Adorn this idyll of modest charm, 
A refuge for sunbathers...

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The humid Hawaiian heat hobbles my head and heart too,
Hitting as the Humvee high-tails past on the highway, 
Sweat seeps steadily south from scalp to shoes
Convection current cooking, keep pedaling, pores crying.

Howling Haleakala Headwinds hammer...

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The lake is a tsimmes; boats, babies, and fish bob in white wakes.
Ah but, the sandy shoal, the small fish nest beneath and beside the docks.
The lens of lake divides but   why chose...

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a runaway truck
barrels through an intersection.
no one is there to be astonished

a cat hugs a dead bird to its breast
the image curls inward
like a snail shell

the mail is late
a condor perches on the mailbox
waiting

people fall...

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driving away
	from a long pristine shoreline
where waves roll upon sand
	corralled by crumbling cliffs

driving toward
	a haven for sunbathers
listening to ice cream vendor’s jingles
	on boardwalk backed beaches

In the rear view mirror
	 darkness touches the ground
out where thousands...

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Kitchen Is Open

A Hawaiian
sun blisters
fine grains of beached sand, unaware
to some assured wandering of tender
soles stumbled
swiftly altering
run judiciously

Prepared bodies
rotisserie spirals
evenly baked oily skins glistened among
beads of slippery sweats gliding loosely
suitably turning
perhaps sleepy
retreat reading

Dripping sunlight
rising sunbathers
the...

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Blue waves of heaven
On a sunshiny day
Oceans of love           
Rolling your way
Scourging hot beaches
Clear bright blue skies
Sunbathers soaking
On the beach they sigh




Blue waves of heaven
On...

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We stroll along the wave lapped beach,
Together, hand in hand,
And turn to see a pair of tracks:
Our footprints in the sand.

The gulls are screaming overhead;
The early sun’s still mild;
The sea is calm with ripples now...

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