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"wavelets" poems
We fall, and hard, and in the shadows, ***** ourselves on snags, that tear our clothes; grazed and cut, we stagger on - Impressions, ideas, fancies! Of these have we been disabused. But is this spring, come again? Lovely, yesterday, in the bright sunlight, to see you, felt green hat in among the photo clouds, apple suedes on the gallery's dank floor. Melvyn,   and I, merrily circling with you the light cloud images, my nostrils full of pollen spikes. The pictures: wisps of trailing dreams churning in ‘scapes of infinite blue; dark clouds, in amongst them, too. Photographs in two time places caught; at once, all: the other and t'other. So excitement swells, and everything besides us quells, because the knowing of itself, knows, and dares beyond the frames; to skirt knowingly the unsaid; to want beyond the wounded past, to pull things, once again, inside out. In whimsy’s currents flow these thoughts, these feelings, these drives; swirling in eddies, so that as you sit, on a summer’s day, it moves, a mirror to everything above. The wavelets on the surface, hammered into shape, burn, bite and dazzle; the sun’s flames leaping and dancing on ripples. In the basement, on the concrete, your Y proneness shifts, releasing knees on black-clad thighs; two pendulums swinging, brushing; yawing metronomes in the cool, coolness of my desultory thoughts. Oh, what am I saying? Feelings like reveries walk along these silver lips straying languorously. These myths are too soon made, carried one to the next, one-on-one, until contained no longer, become new truths.
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Jun 25, 2018
Jun 25, 2018 at 8:40 PM UTC
Were you ever called a *****
We fall, and hard, and in the shadows, ***** ourselves on snags, that tear our clothes; grazed and cut, we stagger on - Impressions, ideas, fancies! Of these have we been disabused. But is this spring, come again? Lovely, yesterday, in the bright sunlight, to see you, felt green hat in among the photo clouds, apple suedes on the gallery's dank floor. Melvyn,   and I, merrily circling with you the light cloud images, my nostrils full of pollen spikes. The pictures: wisps of trailing dreams churning in ‘scapes of infinite blue; dark clouds, in amongst them, too. Photographs in two time places caught; at once, all: the other and t'other. So excitement swells, and everything besides us quells, because the knowing of itself, knows, and dares beyond the frames; to skirt knowingly the unsaid; to want beyond the wounded past, to pull things, once again, inside out. In whimsy’s currents flow these thoughts, these feelings, these drives; swirling in eddies, so that as you sit, on a summer’s day, it moves, a mirror to everything above. The wavelets on the surface, hammered into shape, burn, bite and dazzle; the sun’s flames leaping and dancing on ripples. In the basement, on the concrete, your Y proneness shifts, releasing knees on black-clad thighs; two pendulums swinging, brushing; yawing metronomes in the cool, coolness of my desultory thoughts. Oh, what am I saying? Feelings like reveries walk along these silver lips straying languorously. These myths are too soon made, carried one to the next, one-on-one, until contained no longer, become new truths.
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Hi, below I copy a humorous hiabun, which I shared as an exercise to mentor enquiring and inspired poets to learn, so they might adopt and try different techniques and then give critique together with awesome comments... Yes, I used the words *** ****** and **** for context the rest was left to an individual imagination as in good poetry! It included reflective commentary encompasses innocent classification terminology used in the critique, reading, examining, appreciating, understanding and writing of poetry for example: POETIC DEVICES (enjambement, duality, keriji, images, collocation, semantic, oxymoron, repetition, listing etc.), STORY (personification, characterisation, subject, context, voice etc.), IMAGERY (synaesthesia), STRUCTURE ( lineation, breaks, syntactic etc.), SOUNDS (syllables, rhyme, alliteration, pace, musicality, phrasing, beat, assonance, onomatopoeia, mouthed rhythms, patterned) and WORDS (preposition, determiner, verbs, adverbs, lexical, nouns, adjectives) used by poets, critics and academics... And here it is : **** tongue-in-cheek haibun - a reflective commentary on writing a popular tanka Eye lashes flicker a shared urgent interest parting - dancing smile My first inspiration was *** passionate life squeezing screaming *** the thumping wall musicality of *** exhaustingly inventive sweaty and wet. I wanted to make it a senryu but for duality the female characterisation demanded two more lines each extending to seven syllables.   Arousing images captured her moaning splashing loneliness in unusual collocation. I was first excited by the placement of a hovering extended enjambement to give life to my final line, whilst also considering the satisfaction in using noisy mouthed rhythms.   I believe I easily hid the wet aroused context with a watery semantic field, that suggested she would choke and drown. So in my last line I had ‘pleasures’ as a cutting keriji to make clear the dominating ****** context, having previously used a preposition and determiner to maintain duality! Exhausted shivers in windowed naked currents unfolding sinking then surfing vital wavelets drowning screams - pleasures wet bite **
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May 2, 2010
May 2, 2010 at 7:10 PM UTC
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE v SOMETHING WORSE
Hi, below I copy a humorous hiabun, which I shared as an exercise to mentor enquiring and inspired poets to learn, so they might adopt and try different techniques and then give critique together with awesome comments... Yes, I used the words *** ****** and **** for context the rest was left to an individual imagination as in good poetry! It included reflective commentary encompasses innocent classification terminology used in the critique, reading, examining, appreciating, understanding and writing of poetry for example: POETIC DEVICES (enjambement, duality, keriji, images, collocation, semantic, oxymoron, repetition, listing etc.), STORY (personification, characterisation, subject, context, voice etc.), IMAGERY (synaesthesia), STRUCTURE ( lineation, breaks, syntactic etc.), SOUNDS (syllables, rhyme, alliteration, pace, musicality, phrasing, beat, assonance, onomatopoeia, mouthed rhythms, patterned) and WORDS (preposition, determiner, verbs, adverbs, lexical, nouns, adjectives) used by poets, critics and academics... And here it is : **** tongue-in-cheek haibun - a reflective commentary on writing a popular tanka Eye lashes flicker a shared urgent interest parting - dancing smile My first inspiration was *** passionate life squeezing screaming *** the thumping wall musicality of *** exhaustingly inventive sweaty and wet. I wanted to make it a senryu but for duality the female characterisation demanded two more lines each extending to seven syllables.   Arousing images captured her moaning splashing loneliness in unusual collocation. I was first excited by the placement of a hovering extended enjambement to give life to my final line, whilst also considering the satisfaction in using noisy mouthed rhythms.   I believe I easily hid the wet aroused context with a watery semantic field, that suggested she would choke and drown. So in my last line I had ‘pleasures’ as a cutting keriji to make clear the dominating ****** context, having previously used a preposition and determiner to maintain duality! Exhausted shivers in windowed naked currents unfolding sinking then surfing vital wavelets drowning screams - pleasures wet bite **
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Three times now when I have sought solace in solitude over the headland on the rocky shore I have displaced my insistent inner voice with a simple quest: "I will find a starfish". And each time I have done this, gingerly rockhopping away from it all towards the kelp-caressed wavelets I have found one under the first stone I turn over. But no matter how diligently I continue the search I have never found a second.
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Oct 28, 2012
Oct 28, 2012 at 8:57 AM UTC
Starfish
*My first inspiration was *** passionate life squeezing screaming *** the thumping wall musicality of *** exhaustingly inventive sweaty and wet I wanted to make it a senryu but for duality the female characterisation demanded two more lines each extending to seven syllables Arousing images captured her moaning splashing loneliness in unusual collocation I was first excited by the placement of a hovering extended enjambement to give life to my final line whilst also considering the satisfaction in using noisy mouthed rhythms I believe I easily hid the wet aroused context with a watery semantic field suggesting she would choke and drown So in my last line I had ‘pleasures’ as a cutting keriji to make clear the dominating ****** context having previously used a preposition and determiner to maintain duality* **Exhausted shivers in windowed naked currents unfolding sinking then surfing vital wavelets drowning screams - pleasures wet bite** .
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Aug 5, 2010
Aug 5, 2010 at 6:29 PM UTC
Eye lashes flicker, a shared urgent interest, parting - dancing smile
*Sunset On The Lake Down beyond the woodland The magic setting golden sun On the still lakes shining waters its glowing corona hung Magenta clouds spread like curtains as they passed the lighted sky I could almost hear them rustle as the daylight bid goodbye The gentle whispered breezes in the pine trees by the shore Sang a song of nature’s anthem I would remember for evermore A hanging reverent silence That no creature dared to break In each soul made a painting Of that sunset on the lake. In beauty so transcending As the water lapped my feet Spoke beauty in a language That I had no need to speak Then under the cloak of evening Played a softened lullaby Sleepy splashing of the wavelets with a dreamy darkened sky. If I lived forever This vision will awake. Memory will leave me never Of that sunset on the lake*
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Oct 29, 2015
Oct 29, 2015 at 8:11 AM UTC
Sunset on the lake
Eye lashes flicker a shared urgent interest parting - dancing smile **My first inspiration was *** passionate life squeezing screaming *** the thumping wall musicality of *** exhaustingly inventive sweaty and wet. I wanted to make it a senryu but for duality the female characterisation demanded two more lines each extending to seven syllables.   Arousing images captured her moaning splashing loneliness in unusual collocation. I was first excited by the placement of a hovering extended enjambement to give life to my final line, whilst also considering the satisfaction in using noisy mouthed rhythms.   I believe I easily hid the wet aroused context with a watery semantic field, that suggested she would choke and drown. So in my last line I had ‘pleasures’ as a cutting keriji to make clear the dominating ****** context, having previously used a preposition and determiner to maintain duality!** Exhausted shivers in windowed naked currents unfolding sinking then surfing vital wavelets drowning screams - pleasures wet bite .
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May 3, 2010
May 3, 2010 at 11:25 AM UTC
....tongue in my cheek
Aloft upon some distant shore The seabird sets her wings to soar The salt sea tang of crested breeze Or howling gale of winters freeze, Through oceans, mountainous or not Or sea Sargasso flat and hot, In dancing wavelets sparkling clear Where hunted mackerel school in fear, Where natives in their dugout boats Caste out their nets and balsa floats, That tiny bird will soar adrift Negotiating each wind shift. One wonders how a thing so small Can fly against the wind at all; But sweep she does and plunge and veer In gracious symmetry to steer Across the oceans vastness too, To land right there, right next to you. In squawking lightness, dancing swings Sea bird alights ….and folds her wings. Marshalg Mangere Bridge 8th. December 2007
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Feb 2, 2010
Feb 2, 2010 at 10:49 PM UTC
Seabird
The shadows of the ships Rock on the crest In the low blue lustre Of the tardy and the soft inrolling tide. A long brown bar at the dip of the sky Puts an arm of sand in the span of salt. The lucid and endless wrinkles Draw in, lapse and withdraw. Wavelets crumble and white spent bubbles Wash on the floor of the beach. Rocking on the crest In the low blue lustre Are the shadows of the ships.
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Exhausted shivers in windowed naked currents unfolding sinking then surfing vital wavelets drowning screams - pleasures wet bite .
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Apr 23, 2010
Apr 23, 2010 at 10:02 AM UTC
WetEroticTanka
Lazy days and choppy waves Upon a copper sea, A breezy, warming westerly Is blowing down on me. Sunlight striking wavelets Below clouds of cotton cool And seagulls hang in squadron lines Aloft from oyster pool. Road signs judder in the breeze Ripples weave amongst long grass, Mangroves bend in unison And asphalt bakes in molten glass. A parasol of brilliant blue A picnic basket brimming high With lemonade and icy beer Whilst sausages and onions fry. Two barking dogs cavort with joy Chasing hard on sandy beach, Leaping high in summer air Running, fetching, ***** to each. The lazy summer saunters in Engulfing us with solar heat, The pretty girls wear tiny shorts Which breathless boys find such a treat. Pohutukawa’s bursting forth In waves of rich and scarlet red Which juxtapose dark olive greens Of leafage midst each flower bed. A sky of brilliant powder blue With salt spray aura in the air As swimmers splash in gales of fun Hot sunlight baubles kiss their hair. Marshalg Port Waikato beach 15 November 2011 © 2011 Marshal Gebbie
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Nov 15, 2011
Nov 15, 2011 at 12:28 PM UTC
Port Waikato Beach
Wide, grey waters rolling in Invisibly it flows Like a spreading carpet over mud Inexorably it grows. Created by a lunar force And global winds at play, Twice each day the tides do surge To crest and flow away. Twice each day the tide rolls in To cover shoals of sands And beds of oysters, muddy brown With squirting water glands. And twice each day the seabirds flock To alight on draining shores To harvest succulents and ***** And other tasty mores. Oyster pickers congregate In flocks of white and black Red beaks plunging deeply In green pastures for a snack. Amazingly, they all take flight A thousand beating wings Which heel about collectively Inking out all skyward things. A thousand, million wavelets play Across the level span Pursued by wind’s relentless glove In a patterned, surging plan. And each reflects a kiss of light, Each wavelet in the run Collectively illuminate Like diamonds in the sun. Above the waves the seagulls ply In corridors of air In squadron flights of symmetry To weave and wheel with flair, Their raucous calls at distance The poetry of sound, In tidal terms, a symphony Of seaward things profound. The haze at the horizon Of salt spray in the air, White ,crunchy shells on beaches, Pohutukawa’s everywhere. A feeling of things tidal In a lazy, salty way, And enjoying the quiet beauty Of this lovely, coastal bay. Marshalg @ the Gate Mangere Bridge 4th March 2009
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Nov 27, 2009
Nov 27, 2009 at 2:20 PM UTC
Tidal
Music sleeps..... In my un strummed chords I wait for the touch of skillful hands To turn it into flowing melody A lotus dreaming to see the sun! How long can I remain silent? Oh touch me, shake me Wake me from my slumber Make me into a throbbing rhapsody Set free this prisoner To birth soothing chimes Note after note in tiny wavelets Let my vibrations carve circles Growing bigger and bigger Oh, give me the timbre and tone Let me sing once more! Let the music drizzle down In healing murmurs Lifting troubled spirits into calm repose Leading them to a quiet fold Free of all fever and fret Let my soft rhymes Fill the empty cisterns of the night, Wooing the hearts Weaving mystical spells Let it rise and sink And finally fade into a soft breath A hushed whisper A faint vibration Over a gliding stream!
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Jun 20, 2017
Jun 20, 2017 at 9:36 AM UTC
Wake Me
Dear Mr. Carl Sandburg, Once, you wrote: *"The lucid and endless wrinkles" Draw in, lapse and withdraw. Wavelets crumble and white spent bubbles Wash on the floor of the beach."* Having observed often, the exact phenomenon you reference in the words above, the undulating action upon a sand white beach, patient waiting the greetings of the all-day wavelets, which reminded you, which reminded me, of the lucid and endless wrinkles sea worn upon our faces, it is my happy duty incumbent to inform your spirit, that we have yet in this the 21st century, to invent, a machine that does it better than you man, hu-man, connecting our aged faces to the timeless stroking of the Earth by the water that sustains life. Yours truly, Mr. Smoke Scribe
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Sep 3, 2017
Sep 3, 2017 at 11:22 AM UTC
Dear Mr. Carl Sandburg,
Tethered at the end with no hope to amend seduced each other to appease your love flow in me with ease Darling, don't look back on you The days when the rainbow was lifeless The ultraviolet was in hues of grey The sunrise reflected back on the skies The multitude of sorrowful rainy clouds All cried out and behind our front My soul laid and screamed aloud NOW The shell of the loneliness undone Chase of the summerly winds donned The day beckoned with clarity All hate erased, our love not charity Un-crippled chase, the healed ails Un-rippled wavelets,currents and sails THEN I unmask the casket Claim the frozen confusion called life On this walls are our sacred scripts The prints that reads indelible Of how our love nurtures the nests
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May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016 at 4:27 PM UTC
Saxophone Ride
At a summer's sunset I sit on a pier Alone with my thoughts With Swans at my feet As I dip my toes into The lake's warm wavelets The hues of Heaven's glow Dance on mountain cliffs All around me only The sounds of summer songs I drift into a dreamy trance My heart's beat plays along All grown now, but I still Wish upon the stars One by one shining above Silver laced misty clouds The sun sets at its lazy pace Here there's no hurry I lie back on the pier Take in its full glory Another day on now Just as a snowflake Not another like it It's just another page I'll turn in the book Of memories of me Sitting on a pier Never once feeling lonely Though one does tug at my heart But he is far away So God wraps me in splendor Until comes the day He finds his way to me Brings me to this pier We'll make love and promises Whisper in each other's ear That as long as there's a sunset Mountains and summer songs There will be an Us Hearts, as One, beating along
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Apr 18, 2013
Apr 18, 2013 at 8:17 PM UTC
A Day On A Pier
Memories diffuse, like sunbeams glint off a lake, become phenomena, evade the tangible. In unsteady light I see my father rowing toward our favorite fishing cove, the wavelets of our wake real as that late August evening. We bait our hooks, conversation merely phatic communion\ I know he's cheating on Mom. Words anchor heavy. As my face turns into the wind to dry tears without his seeing, questions rise in my throat, like a volcano about to erupt, but I have no voice to ask them. So we sit, dangle mono-filament thoughts in dying twilight. Father and son, brooding statues of Buddha, mute as bullhead on the bottom.
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Feb 28, 2012
Feb 28, 2012 at 1:51 PM UTC
Bottom Fishing
There, in the light of a summer, long gone, lie shadows of laughter, remnants of love. There in the dust rings, echos of recall, sunspots flaunt blue yonder above . Recalling eyes that wept for the fun of it, cried with the tragedy,. Teardrops of crave Surges of memory washing in wavelets cleansing, scarring,  riding the wave. Oh for that feeling of splendid simplicity running in sand at the surge of the tide No place to be, no timetable proffered, freedom on little boys giant slippery slide. Ice creams, apricots, luscious and juicy frolic with maiden’s free blonde, tousled hair, Frothy short petticoats bounce in the sunshine, youth without traces of worry or care. Breathless in nights of gathereing twilight, breathless falls this magical  air, Wondrous in such lilting beauty, soft hanging tones of Autumn fair. There in the light of summer gone, shadows of laughter, remnants of love, Memories flood to overflowing, indigo glints the starlight above. M. The Satins of Autumn Approacheth… February 21 2019
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Feb 20, 2019
Feb 20, 2019 at 11:28 PM UTC
Shadows of Laughter, Remnants of Love,
*By amber light we sit here in this scintillating evening By amber light we wonder at the treasures of the night, Enraptured by the shimmer of the highlights in the wavelets Across the bay the music plays to thrill us with delight. Moving to the rhythm of a tango in the moonlight, Feeling the sinuating warming run inside Start the steps in synchro to the pulsing of our swaying Roll the eyes in fun as we let our bare feet glide. Shimmer on the wavelets in the balmy air of evening Kaleidoscope reflection of refractions of the night, Titilating trumpets to the pulsing of the conga drums We meld our hips together in our tango's rich delight. By amber light  luxuriate as long as night’s forever We’ve felt the brush of loving in a tangled, close perspire, We’ve danced the dance of romance in these luscious shades of evening To be happy and  exhausted in a bubble of desire.* Marshalg In the magic of the peaceful night and the waters’ beautiful, shimmering shades. Manou’s Harbourside Restaurant Port Taranaki, NZ. 9pm 1 April 2013
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Apr 3, 2013
Apr 3, 2013 at 12:57 AM UTC
By Amber Light & Tango
as their eyes met, sparks of love emitted emotions swelled, passions surged like a well full to the brim a tear drop glistened in her eyes cutting across the borders, it slithered down her creamy cheek as a freshly formed globule of dew, cracking into zillion rays of light, creating a zillion wavelets of joy suddenly, she turned into a forest aflame he, a river in spate!
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Jun 1, 2021
Jun 1, 2021 at 12:17 PM UTC
Love Sparks
I read you quickly Like little wavelets, Fidgets, and rebounds I should have read you slowly; Patient and poignant As the shoreline doth prolong
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Dec 14, 2013
Dec 14, 2013 at 1:31 PM UTC
Next Time
wavelets on the wall were colors i couldn’t find within my own strings, your hair, the color of copper dancing in the sunshine, the tears you spilled the deliverance i hungered for. i want trees within my lungs, and i want the branches to grow within me, so i can have leaves and flowers and the need to need. kaleidoscope horizons were kissing my brain, and i saw you through vibrations, and i wondered if all we are is wires connecting connecting. radio wires attempting to find other waves that will collide within us to make beautiful music. and i knew, knew, knew, that your vibrations were made to shake and gallop within my own drums. and when i cried you told me i was beautiful and i knew i was everything within the galaxies, your goddess that held fire within her fingers.
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Apr 21, 2014
Apr 21, 2014 at 10:50 PM UTC
siren
In moody silence, nursing my shallow bruises I sat outside in the graying hours of the night Staring into the cloudy night sky With nothing to cheer my sullen spirit My hair left in shabby mess, By the mischievous passing breeze My thoughts slipping out of focus, Like tiny specks of leaping fleas A circular face full of sheen, From behind the nebulous veil, Showed up all too sudden Looking at me with a beaming smile I thought of a thousand smiles Which kindle and illumine the universe The love hidden in all things That eclipses all bitterness and curse Like ripples in a still pool Caused by pebbles hurled By the naughty kids’ wanton hands A strange sensation unfurled Tearing down the pall of gloom Wavelets of cheer grew Coming off in wider circles Changing my mindscape into brighter hue A new moment was born And in the ceaseless beat of my heart I sensed a new rhythm, And knew all my dullness depart!
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May 2, 2016
May 2, 2016 at 12:00 AM UTC
Lunar Influence
Black eyelids of the night, Sing their inward sleepy song, To the ocean of silence far below, Whose wavelets of dreams are a medicine to the past days wounds. Nights brow is doted with dew, Dew whose origin, Same to that of crystal caves bright blue and purple lights, Is a perfect reflection of the Earth's simplicity.
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Mar 21, 2012
Mar 21, 2012 at 2:02 PM UTC
Simple Night
the wavelets, nibble at our toes. as my boy and i comb the tideline, for tiny treasures. curls blowing, ever which way in the salt tanged breeze. little hand holds red bucket, the clicksnickclack of shells already collected is a comforting sound. as we meander along, soon we will turn and wander homeward to warmth leaving the sealife to their own care.....until, the next time.
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Jun 17, 2014
Jun 17, 2014 at 3:38 AM UTC
an afternoon detour