Short Flotsam Poems

the leaves are flotsam
b’low water level -
roses aspire
...

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I can see all pest
Piles of flotsam and jetsam
Users final rest....

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flotsam and jetsam -
                               seascape graffito...

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The full
moon lightens
a coral reef-
pink flotsam colours the
tide....

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In
our
landfull 
sites today-
tomorrow's treasures
that will amaze in future hands....

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Light
flotsam
particles
caught in the
beam,
dust
to dust,
skin on wing-
a transient
dream...

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The
flotsam
of existenz-
floating down the
Elbe.


Ekphrasis -Storm Tide in Hamburg by Kokoschka...

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Springtime, Ol’  Man River


Blossom
Flotsam



_____________________
For Brian's Footle Contest...

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Gritty shore pops foamy words
  Sends fantasy back to sea
  Drifting flotsam overboard
  Swept casually...

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CHILDHOOD

memory flashback-
liberates
childhood dreams


flotsam ebbs away -
on yesterday's
 sunlit seas-...

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   Assaulted by waves of profanity
     high tides of depravity

   Bestrewn, shards of urbanity
     ~ flotsam of humanity...

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a pallid pool
  leaves and flotsam
lethargic, desiccated
  as if waiting for 
a giant spoon to stir them
  what if it all freezes...

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chaotic
   appropriated
surprise
of
    everyday
flotsam
becominv
   the unimagined
jettsom
of
 the
    unexpected
         conscious...

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flotsam, jetsam days

                                     unafraid of ocean's sprays

                                          crabs sidle sideways...

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Like stallions trying to spit the 
bit
Manes shrugged off in a 
flotsam mist
Create an omnipresent 
constant hiss
Interrupted when two collide 
and kiss...

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Listen to poem:

Each dawn's debris sort
of wreckage from day before
yields jetsam just junked 
and flotsam break-up relics.
On the beach who can tell which?...

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Do you strive to be poetic,
while forgetting to be a poet

Your words when forced an epitaph
to what you never said

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)...

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Images blur my mind
A lavaform of thoughts flow,
As rivers carved through fields,
That meander to the sea-
Ebb,then flow,as flotsam lie,
Filtered on my page....

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Images blur my mind
A lavaform of thoughts flow,
As rivers carved through fields,
That meander to the sea-
Ebb,then flow,as flotsam lie,
Filtered on my page....

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Left lost luggage at a station,
One piece of flotsam at sea,
Never to feel integration,
Everything drifts endlessly,
Lugging a suitcase of sadness,
Yearning for someplace to be....

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fleeting
images
as crystalline
hallucinatory
visions;
lying
as flotsam,
washed by the tide,
transotory mayfly
that hide
within
my mind's eye-
until captured and penned..
then die...

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On
the beach,
ebb & flow-
with no place to
go


Anthony Gormley's installation Another place


http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2005/07/05/art_antony_gormley_feature.sht
ml...

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three
   dimensioned
                   facade
incorporating
the 
commonplace
flotsam
    & detrius
of the
         every day
brush
hand
&chisel
       of
          conscious
           . manipulation
...

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Mallards sleepily dabble
in a smudge of water.
Then an emerging sun flares 
from its coatless face.
Like dipping ducks,
muddy shadows dive
under mounds of stalky flotsam.
Vista’s crack open
their levees of light....

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  Intimate, but only so cozy
    passionate, but just to a point
  What once seemed rosy
    forever disappoints… 

  When kisses no longer breathe
    and emotions cease to seethe
  What remains to recover
    ‘cept the flotsam in the gutter
...

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