Short San Diego Poems

USS Midway
Single A Home run Derby
San Diego Bay...

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San Diego
are now Chargers less
will they win LA?...

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San Diego sky
Delicately cocooned
Overcast blankets...

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Things I really love

San Diego flower Show

Disney World...YAY!!!...

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I wonder in and out
The Zoo of San Diego
There remains! This monkey’s sadness!...

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Route 66ish No 20

An old chap from near San Diego
Suffered from chronic lumbago,
He tried using cocaine
Again and again,
Then decided to eat lots of sago....

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Sailors go to the San Diego zoo,

looking for pretty girls who go there too.

Sugared monkeys a good time,

always tossing plenty grime,

by reaching behind and throwing at you!



* For Zany Zoo contest...

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Apricot nectar, I licked from her lips,
suckled the dew like honey
from melon ripe breast
and in time did savor
the heady heavenly flavor
of passion's fruit in all the rest
and night birds
beyond the window

...sang a new song....

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She was next to me, She was real. How could this be? She so long the substance of my most hopeful daydreams. Physically so far away, but residing in my heart everyday. Could she be mine for more than this weekend? Only if fate smiled upon us, around the bend. Would her heart open again, and let me in?...

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The townsfolk were jealous and calked her “ El Fuego.”
As she was the notorious flirt of sprawling, San Diego

Her shapely legs, put mens’ hearts in a total trance.
The scent of  perfume, ah~with her, they wanted to dance.

Her eyes, like sensous lighthoueses ,forever were calling.
Like a wise
Them~ into her rapturous arms, they dreamt of falling.


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Belly Boarding
By Tom
9-3-2019

In brackish water,
I first learned to swim.
It wasn’t by some plan,
But merely on a whim.
Being a San Diego boy,
Surf captured my eye.
On the spur of the moment,
I gave surfing a try.
The girl I was with,
Flashed a worried frown.
How would I get home
If you should drown


Showing a lot of concern for my safety huh.
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FIX THE STREETS

Fix the streets.
One day the people will rebel
and stop paying taxes.

Fix the streets.
No one will want to live 
here in San Diego.

Fix the streets.
One day the people
will revolt.

Fix the streets.
This is not the time
to put up with crooked politicians.

Fix the streets.
Wealthy people won't want to live here.
Fix the streets.

Janet Marie Bingham...

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Listen to poem:

*Image of Mask Sewing by San Diego County.

Junior Seamster

A thread shared from a spool
In red pigment meant cool

He pokes thread through the eye
Evokes mom smooth as pie

Thumb bled, pain caused a drool
Bunkbed, unmade, "old school"

Unsaid, thought it cruel
Ahead, the moms face rule

2020 July 10
*3rd Place*
Verses In Essence - 8 Lines
~~Joseph May: Judged 2020 July 11...

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There once was a total Lunar Eclipse
My friends turned to werewolves eating some chips
Next year I shall see
Who truly will be
Honest in feelings...the rest will grow hips.

There once was a flood in San Diego
I almost drowned but a voice shouted "No!"
I grasped air so deep
I saw next year's tip
Keep those with no fangs - sharing  a rainbow...

for Carolyn Devonshire's Contest; " New Year's Resolutions"...

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San Diego Riverbed, our home.
It has an allure for total fools.
Homeless people who are not allowed.
We risk jail to stay near her water.
To toxic to drink unless treated.
A lovely place to live, no rent due.
We create communities that work.
Together we must play cat and mouse.
The police our only predators.  
A task force of eight hunt hard for us.
The game played by our rules for now.
They are winning and the loss cuts deep....

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Here begins a series of Burns stanzas
commemorating the Catholic Missions found in Old California along "El Camino Real", The King's Highway. The rhyme scheme is
aaabab and the meter is trochee.
Lines "a" are tetrameter lines and lines "b" are dimeter lines.


California's oldest mission.
Shrine provides appreciation,
viewing proselytization.
Converts, business,
making tribes of Christian passion.
Seeds brought, priests bless....

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HISTORY   IS   BUNK


Columbus discovering America?  Yeah, right !
Only after a  small  army of Vikings from overseas 
Traded and raided on the coasts for centuries; 
And Brendan had navigated from Ireland  to the Bronx;
Not to mention precolumbian wrecks of Chinese  junks 
Found in the sandy bottom of San Diego harbor;
And the Mongoloid  footsloggers who tiptoed south to Ann Arbor
Across the floes of the Bering Strait ten millennia before....

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On the west coast of the USA

There's a place they call the Golden State

Where the mountain go rushing to the sea

The Streets are lined with Palm Trees

And the sun, it always shines

It's the kind of place I wanna be...

California


From San Diego to the Bay 

From Palm Springs to LA

And all the many places in between

Mountains reaching to the sky

Beaches so sandy white

 It's the kind of place I wanna be...

California...

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HISTORY   IS   UNTRUE


Columbus discovering America?  Yeah? Who  says?
Only after a  small  army of Vikings  from overseas
Traded and raided on  the coasts for centuries; 
And Brendan had navigated from Ireland  to the Bronx;
Not to mention precolumbian wrecks of Chinese  junks 
Found in the sandy bottom of San Diego harbor;
And the Mongoloid  footsloggers who tiptoed south to Ann Arbor
Across the floes of the Bering Strait  a millennium before....

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He is a San Diego native southpaw.
One of the best young pitchers I ever saw.
The Phillies chose him first in 2002.
In 2006 was his big league debut.
He has made his presence felt with all the teams.
He can baffle the best of hitters, it seems.
With wins and strikeouts, he will be the team’s ace.
Nobody can knock “King Cole” out of his place.
He will be pitching with many home crowd cheers.
May he delight Phillies fans for many years.
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So sublime 
These oceans come alive 
As the sun leaves its lips on me 
As the tides caress my feet 

Couldn't ask for anything better now 
Then to be here 
To breathe in 

This everlasting piece of paradise 
To feel peace 
And release this 

Imperfect confession 
That it's not the same   
Yet I still question 
Who's to blame, as we reframe 

Photo stills from a better day 
Simpler times, if only we run away 
And drive off into the sunset of eternal youth...

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She was a gorgeous girl 
I met years ago.
at Black's Beach near San Diego.
It's a nude beach 
so I wasn't wearing clothes.
She sat down next to me 
then disrobed.
Her body was exquisite 
I couldn't help but stare.
She knew I was checking her out but didn't seem to care.
We began talking about sex 
she mentioned her foot fetish 
thought it important I knew
Then she inspected my package 
And commented sounding disappointed 
I guess eight inches will have to do.

JSB...

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riding in Amtrak
southbound to San Diego
viewing scenic coast

Be with my Mommy sometimes on weekend.
The time for the two of us, when we tend
to act like silly girls.
Dancing, doing some twirls
while singing karaoke songs we shared.

she has been gone for years; but our times together live on, I miss her.


1/22/22    Charlie Hai-Lim-Ku Poetry
                Charles Messina

Used:        How Many Syllables  (5/7/5 - 10/10/6/6/10 - 17)                
                RhymeZone...

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