Short Surrealist Poems

I went to Mars once
in a time that wasn't yet
the coffee tasted awful


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Splintered heart
Surrealist art

December 2, 2019
Contest : Du-O Your Two Line
Sponsor : Brian Strand...

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Selftaught Surrealist Yves Tanguy
you may indeed wonder why
A style more weird than scary
is so so imaginary...

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Poet& patron Edward James
loved to pay surrealist games
He posed& featured for Magritte
proving to be a visual treat...

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Catalan Juan Miro Ferra
a surrealist of Barcelona
rather taciturn yet painted his dream
began to draw at just fourteen...

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Spaniard Salvador Dali
a surrealist he came to be
With  ego & flamboyancy he did persist
this moustachiod self-publicist...

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Cubist/Surrealist Edward Wadsworth
an Englishman by birth
Achieving much artistic success
in abstractions in vogue then I guess...

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for your information
I am not a little toy brick man
with U shaped hands
and interchangeable heads
but the world I live in
is...

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the

release

of the dream


The uncertainty of the poet by Georgio Chirico The surrealist painter

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=2204...

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Our
childhood
memories-
a forest of
dreams

Inspired by surrealist Max Ernst's (1891-1976) The Last Forest

http://www.abcgallery.com/E/ernst/ernst28.html...

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allow me to introduce to you
a dear friend
may I present The Green Man
we once shared a goblet of mead
inside the head of a nobleman
sometime in the early
thirteenth century

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What strange remembering
Is a dream.
What episodes of needed lies--
Shot by an inner surrealist,
Adding to the footage 
Of poignant fact,
Teasing newly cast desires
With alternant endings...

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the river here runs backwards
and it's the fish that catch
they enjoy the dark nights
when they see better
the sun burns down to the algae
men swim desperately in the shadows
and nothing seems to matter...

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the joy of
         the unexpected-
a cryptic
           riddle
a surrealist 
           allusion
naive
yet lucid
with hint
           & subtext:
a dreamlike
          fallacy
a perfect symbol
in quiet
           pathos,
a touching,
             vivid
footnote 
         to my story...

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The artist’s prime passion
dissolves in the spectrum of colors,
looks for an empty canvas
to flow and make a masterpiece.

Finds inspiration in you
from the rainbow of your heart.
With its shredded chromatic patches
paints a surrealist fresco.

December 14, 2020
Contest : It Feels Surreal
Sponsor : Nina Parmenter...

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11 April 2014  5:15am

The air is cool my coffee is hot
My furry friend beside me in his comfy spot

I returned from my dreams 
and their surrealist scenes
I stretched and yawned 
now I await the dawn

Typing away to new found friends
in a world nonexistent but never ends
Hello cyber world God bless you too
have fun today what ever you do...

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SURREALIST PAINTING

                In nospace
                            are there no things
                                   but
                being aware of existence
                            things manifest
                                   and                         
                             look like this!

                              Dave Austin...

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arched mirror on the cold stone,
blackglorious dress,
Xoloitzcuintlis at heel.

quiet reflection,
forfeiting Frida’s apparition
beneath her underclothes.

her fate was switched
from doctor to artist
painfully so

she’s pretty with eyes closed,
heavy-petaled headgear.

Diego paints ash on canvas,
surrealist unibrow lifts —
Frida’s suffering relinquished.

10/25/2020...

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I am one of those in a world that stopped
whether it was for seconds, fractions or millennia
but the engine of time broke down mid action
mid conversation, mid thought
and for a beautiful period we were all framed 
in a snapshot that may have lasted eons 
and some called it enlightenment
and when the buffering released us
all was as it was
and some claimed epiphanies
the only giveaway, a distant house alarm...

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a lady of swollen years
sat knitting with glorious colours
she said her name was
saint something or other
I didn't quite catch it
must have been the gum she was chewing
her lipstick was smeared
anyway I asked what she was making
she said stain glass windows
for the cathedral being built behind her
I wasn't going to believe her
but I couldn't help it 
she rolled her next joint
with incredible conviction

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The world 
is something we 
    take delight in 
at times 
    We are moving along the track
   Did you ever take the powers of light 
and touch them 
with the tip of your fingers?
Automatic writing 
the surrealist 
thing 
      is something one 
can delight in 
   If you think 
long and hard enough 
    you will find 
joy has captured you 
Yes, and if you can take delight in
that joy 
Then you will realize
Peace is coming to us all...

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We need time to adjust 
our watches
so we can see 
    the light 
  cutting through the tapestry 
            which
             is 
            our 
            exsistence
Only one or two millenia 
left for the human race 
Let's make the most of it!
Since the end is coming soon 
We should not let dreams die with it!
A surrealist universe 
    had no room 
for the timid, for the ones who
are addicted to undeserved power...

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Other violence this world
There human flames ceased
Sick swan six
With circles some melancholy
Doctor failure some

Different universe copy soul
Wrapped little body respect
About shoulders stopped arms
Flash doubles wife

Early patient
Stopped her crown
Simple modern
Loop provided effect
While hate challenge simple.

[This was my first attempt at the "cut-up technique", a surrealist technique coined by many early surrealists, including William S. Burroughs, an obvious influence on my work.]...

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