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Stephen E Yocum Oct 2022
Last night I dreamed of
Pismo beach, our blanket
on the sand, hidden in the
cratered dunes, the sweet
sweat of love making and
sandy deep wet kisses with
you, and the sunburn on my
backside that followed.
Memorable youthful passions
fondly recalled, never forgotten.
Timothy Ward Feb 2016
sand pipers darting
hopping over ebbs and flows
picnic at the beach
The sand pipers are a metaphor for mankind, the ebbs and flows the vagaries of life, or ones emotional well being, the last line suggests we enjoy the here and now much as the sand piper does on his inter tidal meal! :) I realize haikus should not be explained... but on another site I always had ppl asking me what I meant. Let me know if you would like me to abjure!
Mateuš Conrad Jul 2016
Aniu,

dostałem słuchy na temat grafiki - nie jestem Surrealist'ą z poprzedniego wieku (tzn. dwudziestego), to już mineło... może i też miałbym pozory sfobody by skrytką zza popularną sztuką miałbym brać jakiegoś malarza na front jak by to było wydanie Ortodoksji zwane Penguin Publishing House, ale wolałbym mieć pod uwage geneze, tzn. kompromis braku koloru i tą nadrentą komplikacje modernizacji na tle "programming" szyfrem komputera - a ten kompromis? szyfr chemika... wiem że to może brzmić zbyt contra idei ładnego obrazka czy tez ikonoklazm'u wedle sukcesu sprzedarzy książki - ale jak orginał to orginał, bez kiszeczki, bo kto tak naprawde chce pokazać tważ niechaj pokarze ją niż maske pierw - wiec myśle o notatkach z sfer chemii w goły-trakt poezji. przesyłam jeden przykład, trzymam notatki inne takrze gotowe, ale to jeden przykład; nie chce sie chować pod skórą innych artystycznych wybryków - szczegółowo poza gruntem orginału pisma jako malunek pierw, a pismo po (ksiązka to nie Boeing 747: obraz pierw a dzwięk po - tzn. dzwięk pierw, a obraz po) - a więc i też skreślam zaufanie co do piękna malowidła jako przeciw tego samego niby ambasador'a dającego ochrone pod tytułem: brzydastwo wiersza konieczne; wole by jedno z drugim miało zaufanie, czy też wpomnienie obojga na począt i na koniec:  na trasie wątpień i zarysów warte twarzy w publicznym miejscu poza oh ah ah oh galerii. a więc zakończe - inne e.g. prześle jutro - ten jako prolog w temacie: o co mi chodzi.

Mateusz.

p.s. oczywiście ominołem ę czasem, lecz jest zachowane w przykładach głębin - ale to nazwe proto-ortografia Polaka poza Polską, takie potrzebne lustro w Angielskim 's - czyli liczby mnogej co nawet tłumacz by powiedział: sprechen Deutsche?
Timothy Ward Sep 2017
On Pismo Beach
Beside the sea
That autumn eve
You held me free
Etched in my heart
The lovers plea
That I love you
And you love me.

Redwoods lurch
Our seagulls sigh
We kick at waves
Throats run dry
In vain I search
Into your eyes
The tide recedes...
We say goodbye
Tommy Johnson Jun 2014
The Packrat has morphed into a hoarder
I tried to removed the monkey in a suite off his back and put it in he barrel with the rest of them even though it wasn't my business, although I was its uncle

Get in

A quaint little bungalow
Where sweltering heat is a constant
"There's coffee on the back burner, ya want some?"

It was a blessing in disguise
A bona fide  slice of paradise

We read up on the complex of Oedipus Rex and the debate of moral fiber when talking about Ped Xing

We hopped on to a plane going to Pismo Beach and joined the mile high club then enjoyed clams on the half shell  

We listen to a dollar fifty nickelodeon
And talked about how music is dead because everyone is just na na naing and yeah yeah yeahing their way to the top of the pop charts  

Over a *** pie
I confessed my love
His rebuttal seemed abysmal to my sleeve dwelling heart

He said this was an unnatural habitat for him
And if we were to be together it would raise eyebrows
Tarnish his illustrious reputation

It was an unanswered prayer
After all the whatnots and whathaveyous
He got sick and died of AIDS about a year and a half later
He never came out

Dodged a bullet there on that one
van Young Apr 2019
Hi you say
I wish I were
The stuff of dreams or so it seems is a world of wonder if it's time to seek
What a glorious day for happy toes at play on Pismo Beach
It's a bright morning
Of another shining day
A blessing it is that Life holds sway
With a brilliant glow and van-tastic sight
All made possible by those billowing winds, huffing and puffing last night
A nice position that ensures no concern with people who flop
Is experiencing the casual ebb and flow of ultra green tree tops
Hank and Frankie had their usual convention and loud beak fights
And then dived off the balcony railing versus soaring in flight
In addition to tossing my mollusk shells for no valid reason
So I threatened them both with a flame thrower later this season
The ***** are polished with a Biore Charcoal Scrub sheen
Which helps me enjoy the neater environment that someone else just cleaned
Yet,
One never knows how that day or this will be framed
Yesterday, making miso soup, my right front stove burner burst into flames
In the ensuing panic with many motions that were manic
It was way too scary with fire alarm screaming something about a wire
Luckily, I remembered my fire safety training re how to put out a grease fire
I was cooking miso soup
How did that cause a combustible grease loop ?
All made stranger by the proverbial question of why
It's been weeks since I used the stove to fry
It just goes to show
Between the bed and the door
Near the thin edge of a sheet of paper things can turn to crapping
On any given day - at any given time - anything can happen
celeste 5d
i have stood here before
my heart untethered
in palms of grainy sand
salty winds flying by
waves conjuring into one another
as if they never end, but now I look
as each one is beginning a new
embracing themselves together
where foam caresses blue
my heart in bits and pieces
forever missing you
Amanda Shelton Nov 2021
I was born on a hot summers
night, 3rd of July on a Friday
9 pm.

With fire in my soul
and future sunrises
waiting to bloom, I
grew.

From the soil of American blue’s,
moody beaches covered in sunbathing bodies, seagulls and seashells of LA and Pismo.

My mom taught me well, I had
a voice and I have a story
to tell.

She raised me on rock n roll
guitar riffs, piano keys
at my finger tips and a voice
like a bell ringing in a tower.

With a bible under my belt,
and black belt karate around
my hips, with yoga on the side
I grew into myself.

Art galleries and canvas rooted
in my mind, from the beginning
I was meant to shine.

I was raised on American soil,
apple pies and biscuits with gravy.

I was soaked in the mud of
the Kern county mountains,
I swam in the river and ran
through the city barefoot
dreaming of a better future.

Poor and sick, but brave and
willing to learn I became
stronger and better than
I ever imagined.

I proved them wrong by
surviving mental illness,
cracking the lock to my
own purpose.

The meaning to life is simple,
to live it to the fullest, too be
brave and bold. Live it well.

©️ 2021 By Amanda Shelton
Mateuš Conrad Jun 2021
a relapse into a minor psychosis:
all subsequent ones will never be akin
to the first...
in all fairness: it's a boost of sensual
experience...
the current need to drink some whiskey:
for added stamina...
and subsequently cycle into the night:
perusing through the east end of London
until i reach something central...
something tourists might recognise
like brick lane...
i've become a tourist of faces...
that my memory is as it is...
once me and three of my fwends were
walking...
a car pulled up...
some ****- jumped out and stole
m'ah fwends phone...
so i told the other to note down
the number plates of the car...
to the police station we went...
of course a charge was made...
came to recognising the **** from
a bunch of mug shots...
i hit the perfect 10...
even though it was dark...
i think the trial hit a dead end because:
the my fwend didn't recognise
the silly ****...
the argument of: his phone was stolen...
blah blah...
i remember standing in court
and being presented with "evidence"
by the defence party...
in the old days... when you...
decided to... allow photographs into existence
of a physical copy...
there would be a date and time
imprinted on them
in red fluorescence...
  just like there was a time when
our pupils would glare up red...
any terminator handy...
he asked me... do you recognise the silly ****
"now"...
i looked at the date and said...
well... kind sir...
in two years time...
i'll be expecting enough ***** on my face...
to later... stroke my beard
like it might be a violin in order to:
pretend to think...
such savvy evidence showing me a picture
of a ******* toddler would be best!
show me a picture of child ****** and
then... let's pretend he... wasn't envious
of the Charlie Chaplin moustache...
'appy?
this one time i stood in defence of law...
probably: in-circumstantial evidence
was given... some thesaurus *******
of how man passes law:
let's see them bend come the law of gravity
or that water boils at 100°C...
or that it freezes at 0°C...
now those are laws!
my critique on passing law...
it's too subjective... on a whim...
justice isn't celebrated when Solomon dealt with
those two women and cutting
the baby in half...
nor when Pontius Pilate washed his hands...
for the purpose of... appeasing the egoism
of the judge... that's all i see...
best state your "riddle" plain and simple...
let's just hope for some
placebo solipsism between us...
as we tow along some time spent together...
no short-changing...
like me and my relationship with
money... well thank **** i don't have to spend...
and what i do spend...
the rivers run amber in scotland...
most of it will translate into zesty...
concentrated lemonade of ****
while my liver digests the poison...
to sacrifice my liver on some boxing-bag
champ detail... as long as my brain relaxes
and produces these words...
bertrand russell's: history of western philosophy
is still my favourite book...
of all time...
it would seem that...
historians of philosophy are...
the most exciting writers...
or perhaps a history of of philosophy is the most
proper genre to have as an... antithesis....
antidote... antonym... of... (friction) fiction...
for the purpose... lessened psychologism...
as one might dwell on...
one degree apart from philosophy as history...
Kierkegaard...
the rest... troublesome reading...
reading that also has to stage thinking...
and long pauses of reflection...
   riding a bicycle is better than riding a horse...
being only a passenger in a car...
i still prefer a double-decker bus...
but i have no desire for... faking the creation
of momentum: if i'm not peddling...
i like to earn what i can...
philosophy as a history is better than...
history as historicity...
       honest to goat, god and goad...
and some bloated toad...
what's that schematic...
a poem exists on this scale as so:
journalism - history - mythology...
  **** on me... where is it?
it probably exists in all the three categories...
that there's as much space as there is time...
infrequently suggested...
if you were to add up all the unique experiences
of this... meagre amount of space: to compare...
there's as much space as there is time...
for me... Darwinism crumbles on any posit
for an etymological concern...
or how words become vogue when...
become... disused... abandoned...
how the Greeks had noun-letters
while the Romans had... sound-letters...

to resurrect a phrase...
   Abraham patriarcha hebrajskie wynalazł litery,
   Kadmus zaś greckie, a pismo łacińskie Carmentis


Abraham the patriarch invented the hebrew letters...
Kadmus thus the Greek, but the written Latin, Carmentis...

"point of concern"...
some st. cyril did a cheap-**** job translating the Glagolitic
text...
although... few pointers for originality:
G... F... J... C...
               L (hardly... given gamma)... Q...
                      S...            D...

to hell with these figments of truths and halves...
the night... the bicycle await...
i'm done scribbling down furthering of riddles!

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