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Salton Poems

Dead End

...
A random road wanders across the desert
as voluminous clouds chase the rising sun 
nary a sound can be heard, save for the
whipping wind and clicks of insects. 

The yawning horizon stretches ...

Categories: salton, dark, death,
Form: Free verse

Dunkin Reverie

...
I'm a pro-cyclist, and I despise people with flab
So it hurts that my folks don't walk, they'd rather take a cab.
I describe my races at the dinner table, but all they do
Is nod politely and say...

Categories: salton, funny, growth, humor, irony,
Form: Lyric

Gandorlendeium

...Aqueous humor: she said of the buddahs hands that were
placed upon the table. Macula, and marvelous! A specticail
appealing to the eyes. Yards and Yards of lemongrass, and
beautiful bounties of Bu...

Categories: salton, engagement, environment, farm, music,
Form: Ballade

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

God Heard Our Mama Pray

...Summer 1967
                           None of us ready for heaven
                       We headed down that old highway
                          A fun road trip, a summer day
 
              ...

Categories: salton, miracle,
Form: Rhyme

The Salton Sea

...The air is parched and crinkled, heavy with no place to go; with no sense of time, hanging suspended over the Salton Sea,
100 hundred miles in the middle of nowhere. 

A flat blue sky, swathed in ...

Categories: salton, culture, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Narrative

We'Ll Always Have San Andreas

...-rearranging the stars-

How could we agree to separation? 
If you were destined to be my soulmate,
Why would we allow the stars to change our fate?
They've written in a fresh verse 
Sewing in ...

Categories: salton, depression, relationship, sad love,
Form: Alliteration

The Salton Sea

...Just a moment to live
The time has come
For me to give up
All I have done

Just one thing to ask
With the time left to breathe
A favor of mercy
That cannot come from a priest

Just a moment...

Categories: salton, faithme, me, time,
Form: Free verse

Pain As Deep

...Hands of seared flesh
Clinging to my chest
Salt and sea
Blowing gusts of pain
You think me evil
You think me wicked
I do this all for you

A hundred years, it’s been
So long, and yet again
...

Categories: salton, lost loveme,
Form: Free verse