Surreal Prose Poems

A car rolls into a soundless night,
It's light sends a bursting view of overhanging growth,
In a microcosm succession of descending seconds,
Pruned for a snapshot temporal...

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In the winter twilight
of the meandering drive,
silhouettes of dark clouds
patchwork the cerulean sky
with weird images of animate
and inanimate things:
animals, buildings, ships,
celestial mountains
rising above a terrestrial...

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As the quiet dew
wet blades of grass grew,
hungry rays of sunlight
slowly consumed 
the last morsels of darkness

Faint echoes of the symphony 
of frogs and crickets
waned...

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In the consuming time of day
the water of the no longer frozen pond
is again home to a family of ducks
floating quietly in the center, as...

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Poet:  Ken Jordan 
Poem: Dreams
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan 
written:  December/2016


Flying inside a state of mind
without wings,.... floating 
where non-reality thrives 
upon a...

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It’s surreal,
that in-between where, 
life stares down death.

One minute you’re facing eternity; 
the next the realization that 
you’re not in control.

In that reality,
life seems insignificant,
like...

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I unpack this flat pack pop up card
I scan those ancient hills,
the snow starts, 
it crafts a powdery scene that 
covers all this greenery.

I walk...

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The pre-gibbous moon
looked on
as five flying geese
in pattern formation
quietly fluttered by...
streaking across the sky;

Landscaping shadows
of stoic poised trees
reflect  their presence
as the chilled air teases
goosebumps...

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Just a mile from HELL, I know.
My map is accurate to the toll.
I shall arrive an honored guest,
My presence there will be extolled.

Induction is a...

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Each of us is an infant seized
In the moment of labor spent.
We each are Samson, stained, restrained,
Chained between the pillars that confine us.
The womb of...

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A countenance of shining silver..
was a cheerful lucent mirror.
Sparkled on the cheeks ..
droplets of woe and tear.
The grief of grimace flushed..
the glitter was all disappear...

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Tasseled Dreams


The thought of the future we will never have was pollinating foul fuzzy particles in the air, 
slowly following the wake of all those...

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I dreamed my brain was coming loose inside my head because the bones of my skull were separating. I couldn't shake it all back into...

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Last night I dreamed I found a large boulder in the woods with a big crack filled with water and there was an aquatic snake...

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Couple nights ago I dreamed Rhonda came home with about 100 toothbrushes of all sizes small to large, all colors, each one wrapped in clear...

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Last night I dreamed I was weeding my vegetable garden in the Drive-in theater, while people wandered back and forth from snack bar to their...

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I love to meet with friends, and to sit with them and chat,
A rewarding way to pass the time, discussing this and that,
As we set...

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Ah, the life surreal.  Nothing like wearing the weirdness like a greatcoat as I sip bad hotel coffee and muse over where the last few...

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Some people haven't changed but time flies,
the karma's the same between lows and highs;
people speak now when they never wanted to,
I won't forget the things...

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'Would you like one last wish before you die?'
'Yes, I'd like a baked neapolitan alaska please,
then maybe a coffee, cognac and a smoke,
I might even...

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