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"brackish" poems
When we were young, all things were new The rising sun, the morning dew. Through you I saw the ocean first, From stormy eyes I saw the surf. I tasted summer in your lips The flavor of the brackish mist That lingered on with days and years That veil of time was thin and sheer. When we were young the summer months Seemed everlasting, endless once. Heated asphalt, mosquito'ed creeks We dipped our toes to beat the heat. When we were young, immortal then I never thought there'd be an end... I never thought I'd move away I never dreamt you wouldn't stay... I never thought when we were young Your final song would go unsung, I never thought there'd come a day Your final words- you'd never say. When we were young When we Were young When We Were Young I never thought You'd die.
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Feb 26, 2016
Feb 26, 2016 at 3:29 PM UTC
When We Were Young (I Never Thought)
Eroding brick wall all that remains refracted, fading fishermen shadow red dawn’s early light brackish still water shocked violent green seeps from the desert to be subsumed by an unrelenting sea restless dreamers rise muscle sturdy pangas into the churning tide seeking quicksilver at the continental edges returning boats ride low the shrinking horizon race to safe harbor cold beer on ice under palm palapas in the restaurant a young man shows off tuna half as tall as he is to admiring tourists like me, seeking the deep, slow burn salt, jalapeno, lime a fitting end to this unraveling dream Pueblo Mágico of “no bad days” walls of contention in a fractured land will never separate us one margarita, two another raised in defiance of those who would try to confine and define free-range spirits the Pacific touches this contiguous shore from equator to pole we could catch a clockwise current follow Polaris up North arrive transformed magnetically charged disparate souls fused together bound
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Mar 17, 2017
Mar 17, 2017 at 8:38 AM UTC
Pacific Drift
<> "And then one day you came back home You were a creature all in rapture You had the key to your soul And you did open that day you came back to the garden The olden summer breeze was blowin' on your face The light of God was shinin' on your countenance divine And you were a violet colour as you Sat beside your father and your mother in the garden The summer breeze was blowin' on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden" In the Garden, song by by Van Morrison <> ***This touches me deep in the chest cavity, the palpitations of its internalizing echoing cavitations, a warning, go slow, choose your words wise and accrue, the mood, for the ache of creating, hurts, fevers me for I am but steps away from the garden, and its violet hues infused with fresh sunrising golden hazes, with kindly warmth, with warming kindnesses, touches, caresses my shoulders, begs me to stop crying, overcome, for I am overcome, eyes dropping wetting droplets, for find myself at the intersection, interlocking crossroads where perfect perfection begins and must meet its natural endings thoughts of capture, retentions, preservations, all impossibilities, challenges, see me, begging itinerant muses in the neighborhood to guide my hand, teach me newsome words, mine feel so old, so unworthy of this moment, hearing me solicit their Treasure of Summery Words but they won't, excusing themselves, that this in particular human has exercised, exorcised, all the tools in his ever diminishing capacity, time insufficient to learn a new calculus of addition and bid me calm my heaving chest, seize my tears, just add them to the brackish salted waters steps awaiting away live in this moment live within this poem, revisit it frequent, weep no more, your stilling heart weakened, take fast what is given now, and be contented, your treasury chest is full, overflowing with this summary of summery*** but I am not, cannot… 7:48:am jul 22
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Jul 22, 2025
Jul 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM UTC
Within your violet, you treasure your summery words...
<> "And then one day you came back home You were a creature all in rapture You had the key to your soul And you did open that day you came back to the garden The olden summer breeze was blowin' on your face The light of God was shinin' on your countenance divine And you were a violet colour as you Sat beside your father and your mother in the garden The summer breeze was blowin' on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden" In the Garden, song by by Van Morrison <> ***This touches me deep in the chest cavity, the palpitations of its internalizing echoing cavitations, a warning, go slow, choose your words wise and accrue, the mood, for the ache of creating, hurts, fevers me for I am but steps away from the garden, and its violet hues infused with fresh sunrising golden hazes, with kindly warmth, with warming kindnesses, touches, caresses my shoulders, begs me to stop crying, overcome, for I am overcome, eyes dropping wetting droplets, for find myself at the intersection, interlocking crossroads where perfect perfection begins and must meet its natural endings thoughts of capture, retentions, preservations, all impossibilities, challenges, see me, begging itinerant muses in the neighborhood to guide my hand, teach me newsome words, mine feel so old, so unworthy of this moment, hearing me solicit their Treasure of Summery Words but they won't, excusing themselves, that this in particular human has exercised, exorcised, all the tools in his ever diminishing capacity, time insufficient to learn a new calculus of addition and bid me calm my heaving chest, seize my tears, just add them to the brackish salted waters steps awaiting away live in this moment live within this poem, revisit it frequent, weep no more, your stilling heart weakened, take fast what is given now, and be contented, your treasury chest is full, overflowing with this summary of summery*** but I am not, cannot… 7:48:am jul 22
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You put garbage in you get garbage out Health food fanatics know what I am talking about McDonalds, Arby’s and all those Buffets Sluggish citizens working Twelve to ten And to cover up their poor nutrition We soup up the brackish black brew Killing ourselves with more caffeine till We collapse You put garbage in you get garbage out Good teachers with years of experience Know what I am talking about The tweet, the face book Are superficial connections Binge watching brain-dead reality show people Speed reading unverified Articles Peer reviewed paper by academic writers Don’t get the press the talking heads With party lines and hateful sentiments get You put garbage in you get garbage out Any poet philosopher knows what I am talking about Flashing screens switching scenes while twitching teens Sit texting banal and ephemeral things No grand dreams but to be normal No expansion of the human potential Just block and block of picket fence prisons Dreams are limited to advertised fantasies
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Jul 6, 2015
Jul 6, 2015 at 1:59 PM UTC
Garbage In Garbage Out
*I feel your heart's heavy and your mind trailing off to places I'm not allowed to go...* - Dajena M My body... Lays battered under unforgiving weather I amble forth with unsure In search of pastures much greener My face... Wears my despair Mirrors wouldn't recognise Reflecting back a faceless stare My eyes... Stung red with tears Conveying the murmurs from my soul Clouded by despondence that never clears My limbs... Bent awkward with time Arms hang lifeless; legs sore from bearing Load of my past of crime My mind... Trails in the wake of fallen dreams Searching for an oasis Instead finding only brackish streams My soul... Holds the weight of an anvil Still I trudge to the farthest reaches Through barren lands where all is still My heart... Yet beats with rhythm so true It keeps me alive It gifts to me... you...
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Jan 8, 2015
Jan 8, 2015 at 9:59 AM UTC
Worn But Not Weary
I have nothing better to do when it rains so I go to the pier on vacation with my pole and chicken necks and rusted traps, drive down to where the kayaks wait in the mud, stop to smell where fresh fish float through brackish waters and tie a knot at the end of my string, attach a bob and minnow and cast out towards the bay spotting dead skates and hope for mackerel and striper, how my father taught me be gentle I tie the necks to string and let the meat sink below the surface and wait to be caught up with delicious ****** poultry to feed on and get trapped behind the jailed walls. I hope the blue crab knows I had to drive over the county line in my shoddy white pickup to the quiet co-op when she bites into the chicken for our dinner.
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Nov 30, 2014
Nov 30, 2014 at 11:06 PM UTC
It's raining crab meat
The river is polluted The skies are grey in falling night The stars are hidden from our sight Constellations convoluted Bilge water and bile Corrupted hearts so vile Defile of a sacred form This is not divine Only desecration The river is polluted The seeds we plant do not survive And even life is doomed to die The trees are all uprooted           We want the leaves           We want the flowers           We want the scent of the forest The river is polluted Our dismay is all man-made Unwholesome branch that holds no shade Our hope for shelter all eluted Brackish is the water Swim if you care to drown We take giant gulps Deluded with hope And still we die of thirst
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Jul 8, 2016
Jul 8, 2016 at 5:09 AM UTC
The River Is Polluted
unsure, uncertain, of the laws invested in the realms and reams of poetry ingested, am i addict, or supplier, retail consumer or wholesale supplier, a mom & pop candy store, or a metastasizing intelligence that takes any thing, and all, a solitary letter, an instance of a sighting, a gasping palpitation and reformats it into a hehe literary madhatter^ piece you supply, I demand, I supply, boy oh boy, do I ever, but you never, come to me directly asking, write me a poem, thick or thin, witty fitty or an overly looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong e~pistle (a/k/a e~pistol) yet the trade goes on and om, the marketplace never closes, except when periodically the gatewaykeeper is slow to pay his bills, and the trading centres are global scattered, young entrepreneurs try to sell a single piece, as if it was breaking news history, and tired old men, review their lived, eager to memorialize, so it's ok to forget, in retro!spect perspective, the mirror who cannot lie, states affirmatively, you are both ****** and dealer, a corporation scientific of ancient biblical origins, a psalmist, a deacon, a lyricist, but thankfully not a singer, an essayist who writes best when ****** by tawny port wine, who snatches inspiration with equality of equity, (wait! that's wrong, the equity of equality,) where he can find, ***** city streets, the deaths of heroes, the sunrise calm miracle he drinks in daily, by rivers, by seas, by estuaries brackish, and streams of watered purity, the riveting bays, the individualized glisten deflected into my eyes, that each contains one pure blessing within….                                                 nml
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Sep 27, 2025
Sep 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM UTC
Supply & Demand, Demand & Supply
unsure, uncertain, of the laws invested in the realms and reams of poetry ingested, am i addict, or supplier, retail consumer or wholesale supplier, a mom & pop candy store, or a metastasizing intelligence that takes any thing, and all, a solitary letter, an instance of a sighting, a gasping palpitation and reformats it into a hehe literary madhatter^ piece you supply, I demand, I supply, boy oh boy, do I ever, but you never, come to me directly asking, write me a poem, thick or thin, witty fitty or an overly looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong e~pistle (a/k/a e~pistol) yet the trade goes on and om, the marketplace never closes, except when periodically the gatewaykeeper is slow to pay his bills, and the trading centres are global scattered, young entrepreneurs try to sell a single piece, as if it was breaking news history, and tired old men, review their lived, eager to memorialize, so it's ok to forget, in retro!spect perspective, the mirror who cannot lie, states affirmatively, you are both ****** and dealer, a corporation scientific of ancient biblical origins, a psalmist, a deacon, a lyricist, but thankfully not a singer, an essayist who writes best when ****** by tawny port wine, who snatches inspiration with equality of equity, (wait! that's wrong, the equity of equality,) where he can find, ***** city streets, the deaths of heroes, the sunrise calm miracle he drinks in daily, by rivers, by seas, by estuaries brackish, and streams of watered purity, the riveting bays, the individualized glisten deflected into my eyes, that each contains one pure blessing within….                                                 nml
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sometimes i feel like i’m two creatures caught b e n e a t h skin sharing one body. my tongue rough- sandpaper, broken glass, too many curses while the lips around it burn with apologies fleshy brooms sweeping up the messes of another woman. i feel like there are two animals each fighting for their right to shine through they’re voracious in this battle— it surprises me that their clawstalonssteeth don’t break through the thin expanse of flesh to the outside. i have two women living within my skull one wildroughfighting— slinging glasses and insults. face paint, bones and bottle trees, fire and ash wet pine needles under bleeding feet. the biting creature who leaves bruises on the lips of men. the warrior, Artemis. laughdancing through flames. a bear, a wolf, a cat, a bird. animal in nature. the other fights with words. elegant, gentle, soft, break able-- everything the other cannot afford to be. goddess of the hearth, she feeds her comrades like children keeps fires stocked with woods and binds bleeding arms. this woman carries pitchers of water writes sweet letters to missing friends and opens her soul to many lovers. am I some crude splice of these creatures? am I a ******* of these mothers— each passionate one biting, brackish tides, slow moving rivers, still ponds the other a warm, clean bath? am I both simultaneously, or am I wearing one face while the other watches behind mine eyes? I am the moon— full and loving, dark and hiding and something in between. yeah, that sounds about right. something in between.
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 5:07 PM UTC
am i the moon?
sometimes i feel like i’m two creatures caught b e n e a t h skin sharing one body. my tongue rough- sandpaper, broken glass, too many curses while the lips around it burn with apologies fleshy brooms sweeping up the messes of another woman. i feel like there are two animals each fighting for their right to shine through they’re voracious in this battle— it surprises me that their clawstalonssteeth don’t break through the thin expanse of flesh to the outside. i have two women living within my skull one wildroughfighting— slinging glasses and insults. face paint, bones and bottle trees, fire and ash wet pine needles under bleeding feet. the biting creature who leaves bruises on the lips of men. the warrior, Artemis. laughdancing through flames. a bear, a wolf, a cat, a bird. animal in nature. the other fights with words. elegant, gentle, soft, break able-- everything the other cannot afford to be. goddess of the hearth, she feeds her comrades like children keeps fires stocked with woods and binds bleeding arms. this woman carries pitchers of water writes sweet letters to missing friends and opens her soul to many lovers. am I some crude splice of these creatures? am I a ******* of these mothers— each passionate one biting, brackish tides, slow moving rivers, still ponds the other a warm, clean bath? am I both simultaneously, or am I wearing one face while the other watches behind mine eyes? I am the moon— full and loving, dark and hiding and something in between. yeah, that sounds about right. something in between.
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Today I went kayaking I glided across the cool waters Brackish and so devoid of life This time of year As I drifted underneath the bridge I imagined it painted like the Sistine chapel A choir of angels hidden beneath the barnacle encrusted concrete For only the fish to see I had almost forgotten that the river existed Five minutes away And all I wanted to do was paddle Out into the ocean
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Feb 9, 2015
Feb 9, 2015 at 12:33 AM UTC
A really warm day in the middle of February
Gathered pieces of a great puzzle ; refreshed perspective like ocean riptides foment at the confluence collecting dark rivers’ flow Repurposing back-eddies , rejuvenation of stagnant brackish waters , inherent buried soul-shine purging from the ancient core of earth mother Light arising from the hidden depths of inner stillness as if a refilling wellspring burst forth , reawakening muted sighs unspoken Forming poetic constellations of black and bright to lighten afar the nebulous darkness , a sea of swirling ink transformed into poetry A sage opus renewed by the muse of a migrating flock , striving to discover new sacred grounds ; yet there is an undeniable song sung in the howling winds of change An incitement from a higher dialect that empowers a restoration of spirit Oeuvre uplifted by rogue waves of summoning winds , arousing that which time erases A manifest renaissance among the rousing nuances of poetic continuum , judicious to rediscover the enthralling vastitude of every breaking wave in a boundless sea of poesy Where prevailing currents stir oceans of verse eternal ; provoking a verve revival , the magnitude of an unbroken circle , ocean swells merging singularity with the omnipresent colour of uncharted depths As if thoughts are assuaged by a union of intimately touching souls with words of intangible spheres , sparking subtle shades of meaning spanning poetic immortality Transcending barriers of unexplored lexicon to manifest the immensity, enkindling rhapsody of hearts and minds    Deeply rooted soul replenishment harvested from the tree of humankind , willingly sharing without regret nor intention , with deference to the soul of one-blood, one-love enabling an enlightening metamorphosis of the human journey ... © harlon rivers ... all rights reserved
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Jan 20, 2017
Jan 20, 2017 at 11:48 AM UTC
Harvesting Poetry from the Tree of Humankind
Gathered pieces of a great puzzle ; refreshed perspective like ocean riptides foment at the confluence collecting dark rivers’ flow Repurposing back-eddies , rejuvenation of stagnant brackish waters , inherent buried soul-shine purging from the ancient core of earth mother Light arising from the hidden depths of inner stillness as if a refilling wellspring burst forth , reawakening muted sighs unspoken Forming poetic constellations of black and bright to lighten afar the nebulous darkness , a sea of swirling ink transformed into poetry A sage opus renewed by the muse of a migrating flock , striving to discover new sacred grounds ; yet there is an undeniable song sung in the howling winds of change An incitement from a higher dialect that empowers a restoration of spirit Oeuvre uplifted by rogue waves of summoning winds , arousing that which time erases A manifest renaissance among the rousing nuances of poetic continuum , judicious to rediscover the enthralling vastitude of every breaking wave in a boundless sea of poesy Where prevailing currents stir oceans of verse eternal ; provoking a verve revival , the magnitude of an unbroken circle , ocean swells merging singularity with the omnipresent colour of uncharted depths As if thoughts are assuaged by a union of intimately touching souls with words of intangible spheres , sparking subtle shades of meaning spanning poetic immortality Transcending barriers of unexplored lexicon to manifest the immensity, enkindling rhapsody of hearts and minds    Deeply rooted soul replenishment harvested from the tree of humankind , willingly sharing without regret nor intention , with deference to the soul of one-blood, one-love enabling an enlightening metamorphosis of the human journey ... © harlon rivers ... all rights reserved
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We walk upon the dock, skinny dipping swimming in our Moonrise Kingdom, in the sea we swim with saline skin, as the Moon rise ascends with Mars patiently waiting, where are we, we are in a place many call paradise, suppose that’s as good of a word for it as anything, raw rock lobster ceviche no married time just maritime, mirrored minds, looking through the Looking Glass, brewing brines, the home brewed stew is cooking fast, there are plenty of fish in the sea, it’s just up to you to cast, the only problem with magical moments, is they are always gone to fast, basking, in her stare, brackish taste in the air, Her eyes reflect the light of the Moonrise, the shine reflects from moon to hair, and we are both grateful for each other, because we could be anywhere in the world but we are here, her eyes reflect the light of the Moonrise, she is as soft as white sand beaches, but her shell, her shell is as hard as stone crab no ceviche, teach us, teacher, show me the Love, class is always in session, show me the Light, show me the truth in your lessons, blessing, this world with her touch, she commands where she goes, she stands steady when she walks, which is quite a contrast, to this sea which sways below this dock, we dive in, alive when, we swim, within the waters with our bare skin, bare skin, under the light of our Moonrise Kingdom, no where else to be but where we are, so we’ll be here until Kingdom come… ∆ Aaron La Lux ∆ from Hollywood's Heartbeat available worldwide 7/7/16
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Jun 11, 2016
Jun 11, 2016 at 6:42 PM UTC
∆ Moonrise Kingdom ∆
We walk upon the dock, skinny dipping swimming in our Moonrise Kingdom, in the sea we swim with saline skin, as the Moon rise ascends with Mars patiently waiting, where are we, we are in a place many call paradise, suppose that’s as good of a word for it as anything, raw rock lobster ceviche no married time just maritime, mirrored minds, looking through the Looking Glass, brewing brines, the home brewed stew is cooking fast, there are plenty of fish in the sea, it’s just up to you to cast, the only problem with magical moments, is they are always gone to fast, basking, in her stare, brackish taste in the air, Her eyes reflect the light of the Moonrise, the shine reflects from moon to hair, and we are both grateful for each other, because we could be anywhere in the world but we are here, her eyes reflect the light of the Moonrise, she is as soft as white sand beaches, but her shell, her shell is as hard as stone crab no ceviche, teach us, teacher, show me the Love, class is always in session, show me the Light, show me the truth in your lessons, blessing, this world with her touch, she commands where she goes, she stands steady when she walks, which is quite a contrast, to this sea which sways below this dock, we dive in, alive when, we swim, within the waters with our bare skin, bare skin, under the light of our Moonrise Kingdom, no where else to be but where we are, so we’ll be here until Kingdom come… ∆ Aaron La Lux ∆ from Hollywood's Heartbeat available worldwide 7/7/16
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complexity is your beauty simplicity your mystery interdependence sustains you once upon a time we dipped bowls into your waters and brought up draughts of life now Skipjacks go fathoms deep into endless depletion charting entangled dead zones broadening into a sea of inertness your delicate eco-essence tips toward oblivion effluvia farmers layer mechanized blankets of nitrates on your sunset shores weaving green tendrils of algae blooms strangling the entanglements of all links in your miraculous food chain the EPA proscribes a Jenny Craig pollution diet to halt the slaughter in oxygen challenged dead zones where rockfish are garroted, oysters get drilled by screwworms and azure tinted soft shell ***** dance soft shoe taps lifting a tinny chorus of sad Piedmont Blues the flat-lining watersheds voiceless warnings tremble rocking the purged nests of screaming ospreys in vocal protest of a sinking Tangier Isle anointing it’s tombstones of unvisited cemeteries with multicolored guano fitting alkaline tributes to the lost inhabitants and forgotten languages sinking into the brine of gray brackish tides Delmarva’s fine intra-continental balance skewed by the oozing industrial swill of Frank Perdue chicken farms ruling the roost of sanctioned sustainability tinging clear watersheds of finger lakes set in splints to repair dislocations and complex compound fractures that may never heal again Music Selection: Taj Mahal: Fishin Blues jbm Oakland 6/7/12
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Feb 19, 2013
Feb 19, 2013 at 8:36 AM UTC
Chesapeake
What are these bands around your wrists These frayed stories that barely cling? And what are these enchantments held That cradle your touch between each ring? And what is this ancient writing here That’s inked from shops of yester-year? Is there a relic about you yet That makes your brackish past run clear? What is that place your eye seeks out When your steady gaze is aether-bound? And what steep truths have you traversed To gather poise as you have found? What shadows passing now have stayed And fears upon tanned shoulder weighed? Can mysteries be unraveled here That in your piercing focus played? Oh wandering mystery mountain man, Oh sweet conundrum of my dreams, Oh distant altruistic love, Oh ponderer of whispering streams, Wherefore do the stars yet speak So I can hear their secret calls, But ever in their praises keep Your hidden name in cosmic halls? Yes, to my ears they murmur deep The stain-ed truths of earth and sky But never leaks that hopeful peep; Verisimilitude is shy. Forever my enigma: you. The heavens sagely made it so. For I have solved the their secrets through, But so much in you left to know.
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Sep 10, 2012
Sep 10, 2012 at 6:56 PM UTC
Enigma
My younger brother still fishes when he can, when the weather is agreeable, when he can afford some tackle and beer for the cooler. He sits alone on the river bank and smokes and drinks and waits in the shifting shade of cottonwoods for the unmistakable pull on the line. He fishes whether the fish are biting or not. He is intimate with psychology and the placid deceit of undisturbed water. My brother is an angry man. As kids, we fished together on the dock and killed them with our hands. Careful not to kneel on scattered hooks, we baited the lines on our knees a foot above brackish water. We dropped fish heads off the edge of the dock and watched them float down, almost out of sight, settling into final stillness only to snap back to life (or the false throes of death) by the white claws of ***** picking them into oblivion— goodbye eyes, goodbye gills, goodbye teeth, goodbye scales. Brother, I don’t remember anymore: was it triumph or merely shame that left us shivering in the sun?
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Mar 31, 2017
Mar 31, 2017 at 1:03 PM UTC
Fish
Swallowed the sun   in attempts to        feel the fire, dimly lit universe    eclipsed neath     inescapable moons, horizons were hued of   brackish tea's    indifferent sympathy, as solar systems' fate       lost in darkly orbits,   relinquished their balance
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Jul 13, 2015
Jul 13, 2015 at 8:54 AM UTC
Swallowed the Sun
Walk through my soul forest and sense Anciently evergreen and wise Fresh dampness deep with life Rocket through my mind galaxy and know Burning nebulas of inspiration Infinite dustings of thought constellations Fall into my heart ocean and taste Tides brackish with emotional brine Love foaming on shells and shorelines Breathing life into my body Blooming peace into my life Take a moment to see me And these natural forces of mine
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Jan 21, 2017
Jan 21, 2017 at 3:26 AM UTC
Forces of Nature
The air is slow and still faint puttering of the last barge shunting coal downstream city on the edge of sleep, settles city on the edge of night, darkens stretched steel and stone relax cooling to a grey relief reeds and sedges ripple under bridges and on the edges of the river city in the gaze of moonlight, sighs city in the haze of moonlight, slips in the steady wash of tidal waters and the brackish water of the estuary come the bodies from the shore. © M.L. Emmett
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Mar 18, 2016
Mar 18, 2016 at 5:51 AM UTC
Thames at Night
i hope, i try to hope --to believe-- believe me, i try to trust in trust i think i feel, or think or know there isn't any code that satisfies though maybe there's an uber-uber-ultra-meta code beyond what even codes can mean? meh. i enjoy the hypothetical, Paris in a bottle, fairness for all sentient beings, faith in nothing comprehensible, an English teapot circles Jove from afar or all that's uncontrollable, for some all-purpose good to decorate the brackish, ocean truth. and uncertain science is another case, mistrusting all, testing daring thoughts with razor sight, to sharpen speech and challenge all to flex the truth into a fitness ground on which to stand, objective stern and method doubt to peer and scan the detail bare, denude minutiae into ever smaller parts, expanse of raw and empty space attuned, to vibrant nothingness rebound muons, gluons, tauons, quarks and bosons --Higgs the boon for popular appeal, to bridge or monumentalize the science-mystic gap appall the ghosts that Galileo keeps for company i enjoy the fantasy, dragons in a flask, perfect love for all, dancing in the dark in joy regardless of the shutter thicken dust
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Feb 26, 2013
Feb 26, 2013 at 12:39 AM UTC
trust?
Silver Beach: Always the Sole First familiar white fishing boat, up with early light, seeking sustenance and pleasure in = measure, anchored ‘bout quarter mile east of my under-the-coverlet, (of course! as the crow, raven or scavenging osprey flies), it’s precise location amazingly exact, but alas, soon daily familiarity breeds no secrecy, and now joined by a farther out, smaller version, a compatriot in spotitude, of the best spots for harvesting the early running brackish bay water favorites, striped or black sea bass what persistent fortitude these fisher-peoples display, early to rise, first to depart, when others crowd its “spot,” (amazed by its knowing precision the exactitude of “spot”) this ship, always the sole-first, invokes a first poem of the day, always a soul-first, an unburdening of deepest gratitude that one more day granted me to imbibe this vista, awake to its soothing silent heavenly serenity, absent machine or electronic interference with my delicate sleepy wakefulness, when newly minted words come into my mind, my secret spot Sat AM June 3
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Jun 3, 2023
Jun 3, 2023 at 8:46 AM UTC
Silver Beach: Always the Sole First
In a shrill corner with overcast clouds dully wasting the day for contemplation washes in brackish waves flood mouth and eyes I tell you but no better words hover lazily like dust caught in light In the shrill corner held with fierce intensity, the best way small palms can clench. you were some treasure I'd finally found which might slip from my pockets, of threadbare fabric burying between the thistle and trash by the sidewalks' path by my own oversight you make a promise I can’t swim to the bottom for fear of what truth might look like. Consumed without discretion. without abatement. smoke and ashes will settle into bloodstream and bone leaving fossil traces If one day you want to slip between the fibers to be among something new I will understand let you pass with fists clenched. around their flesh I will make a promise.
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Mar 16, 2013
Mar 16, 2013 at 4:27 PM UTC
Among Thistle and Trash
Fog Happens Yup. Not profound, even Jung, Kant and Freud, wouldn’t deny their eyes, would no doubt disagree with symbolic, philosophical implications, and the head banging ramifications for the immediacy of the spiritual impact while driving in this grey **** Fog differs every time, and on an island, that’s for **** sure. Today’s incarnation, the fog comes over the water, but respects the man-made, timbered, bulkhead, so the yard, with its circus of ravens, crows, and other invisible birds, insects, rabbits, is visible, but absent the inhabitants who are smarter-than-humans, they remain aboded thinking, only stupid humans believe they can navigate and forage, in a fog penetrating in air that is 97% humidity and 100% peas soup thick skinned. The time? Of course. It’s 7:36 AM on the East Coast, and beyond the lawn lies a brackish bay that will lead you to the Atlantic and north to the Titanic, direction Newfoundland. Not enough info to geo tag me, but those who know me, knowledgeable in my early mornings  scribblings, know my whereabouts, my telephone number. Do you? Fog Happens to everyone and at random intervals, Nope. Not thinking of the brain clouds of ordinary Lethologica  and Lethonomia. (Sunday lazy so just look it up and say out loud, gotta remember them words and laugh out loud cause you ain’t gotta a prayer.) Fog Happens in the heart, spreading north to the consciousness, and the lethargy of movement impeded by the lighthouse bells tolling “danger is about,” our light stolen, but you need to know, you’re perilously close to danger. Any action taken when heart-fogged can have awful consequences so stick close to bed, yank out your tablet, write a poem, listen to sad love  songs on that Pandora Station, or send GIPHYs and emojis to your six year old granddaughter who is 108 miles to the west of where you both hide beneath coverlets, and laugh out loud with her like the bells chiming outside, and that helps move that heart~fog hanging low, out to sea. YUP. Fog Happens Fog Passes
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Jun 25, 2023
Jun 25, 2023 at 8:00 AM UTC
Fog Happens
Fog Happens Yup. Not profound, even Jung, Kant and Freud, wouldn’t deny their eyes, would no doubt disagree with symbolic, philosophical implications, and the head banging ramifications for the immediacy of the spiritual impact while driving in this grey **** Fog differs every time, and on an island, that’s for **** sure. Today’s incarnation, the fog comes over the water, but respects the man-made, timbered, bulkhead, so the yard, with its circus of ravens, crows, and other invisible birds, insects, rabbits, is visible, but absent the inhabitants who are smarter-than-humans, they remain aboded thinking, only stupid humans believe they can navigate and forage, in a fog penetrating in air that is 97% humidity and 100% peas soup thick skinned. The time? Of course. It’s 7:36 AM on the East Coast, and beyond the lawn lies a brackish bay that will lead you to the Atlantic and north to the Titanic, direction Newfoundland. Not enough info to geo tag me, but those who know me, knowledgeable in my early mornings  scribblings, know my whereabouts, my telephone number. Do you? Fog Happens to everyone and at random intervals, Nope. Not thinking of the brain clouds of ordinary Lethologica  and Lethonomia. (Sunday lazy so just look it up and say out loud, gotta remember them words and laugh out loud cause you ain’t gotta a prayer.) Fog Happens in the heart, spreading north to the consciousness, and the lethargy of movement impeded by the lighthouse bells tolling “danger is about,” our light stolen, but you need to know, you’re perilously close to danger. Any action taken when heart-fogged can have awful consequences so stick close to bed, yank out your tablet, write a poem, listen to sad love  songs on that Pandora Station, or send GIPHYs and emojis to your six year old granddaughter who is 108 miles to the west of where you both hide beneath coverlets, and laugh out loud with her like the bells chiming outside, and that helps move that heart~fog hanging low, out to sea. YUP. Fog Happens Fog Passes
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Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality, And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore; Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea?
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A trilogy of love: bared, shared, pared Lust's shallow wave: crests, cascades, crashes Deeper, emotive swells: rise, rumble, release Conflicting currents form rip tide: tugging, tossing, tearing Amor's undulating rhythms pulsate Low tide, latent fantasies surface ego to ingratiate  High tide, a endless churning of desires our longing cannot satiate Libidinous breakers scour lecherous bottom; a brackish foam doth emanate In the deeper recesses of our minds, a rational connection percolates From the depths, a heart-felt ****** rises; a growing bond initiates Two, constant minds mutually sharing space; each hope, dream resonates Surface tension increases; two hearts mount each obstacle, common course navigates Nearing balmy shore, strong winds of indifference blow Into eroding channels untested lovers unwittingly row Selfish goals drag the unstable pair into the undertow Corrosive fears, unmitigated doubts sever trust placing love in escrow
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Sep 16, 2011
Sep 16, 2011 at 4:58 AM UTC
Undulating Wave of Love
I had heard long, long ago Of the language of the Eskimo, Where cars and drywall lack a name, But snow and snow are not the same. For, you see, in Eskimo, There are a thousand words for snow. By the shore I'm wont to roam, I see the water as my snow. From crystal clear to stormy blue, The ocean holds a thousand hues. Brackish green and sunset red, The whitecap thunderous demons bred, Seductive black on moonless nights And wind-whipped tops plateau with white. So maybe I'm an Eskimo, But too warm-blooded for the snow.
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May 6, 2016
May 6, 2016 at 7:38 PM UTC
The Eskimo of SoCal