Short poems

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

OFF SHORE If your out in a squall it`s no trouble at all, there`s plenty of water under; it`s when you fetch shore that you get a lot more of the knocks that break you asunder Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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PHOENIX A late swim. After sundown, radiant rocks. Sign in to see full entry.

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REPOSSESSION The night wind, busy on dunes along the shore, fills with sand my footprints from the day before. Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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LIKE SOUND Blue button soldier crabs shuffle in accord, across the sand and with their little feet, applaud! Sign in to see full entry.

SUNRISE, MORETON ISLAND Slowly, the sun projects my shadow over the mirror edge of the morning tide. At the periphery of my eye, cormorants swallow splintered light, and further out, a solitary porpoise punctuates the immaculate sea. Sign in to see full entry.

HAPPY IN ADVERSITY That scarecrow with a missing eye still waves one arm at passers bye! Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

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PRESENCE Time provides with pick pocket hand; my track concedes,the waves impend-- yet, in my very being, is the gift of present place, I, unwrap my moment of intrinsic grace. Sign in to see full entry.

Cuplets

SEASCAPE Blind beneath my down turned hat, parrotts call colour to the mind`s eye. In the silence of suspended waves, blowing casuarinas conjure up the fall. Along the beach the likeness of a stranded whale is sculpted by the probing tide; Gravity and shifting sands fell other trees. Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 4, 2011

FINCHES: A flock of hungry Red Brows suddenly descend, and, as if to welcome them, seeding grasses bend. Sign in to see full entry.

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ZEN ENTOMOLOGISTS With a friend perusing philosophy held dear, we missed that passing butterfly~ our nets of thought caught air. Sign in to see full entry.

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