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Hello, and welcome to my Blog - Just Below the Surface.  With this blog I would like to share my writings; pieces of my memories and experiences laced with perception and emotion.

I have many favorite poems. I thought I would share a few with you.

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This one I like because it reminds me of the peace while up in Inverness, CA

North Dream Street

Gray morning clouds

fill the sky and hang

as still as the moss

draped on the gnarled oak

outside my window.

An array of Queen Anne’s lace,

stand immobile in dignified rows,

speechless.

Not a leaf flutters

or waves good morning to me.

The only movement is

on the radio:

Beethoven's Fifth in C minor

at 102 North Dream Street,

Inverness, California.

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 I like this one too because it is, too me, very descriptive.

A Monument to Man’s Discards

Garbage Mountain grows

with each new day

creeping

closer to the road

taller

with veined roadways

snaking

to the top: a bulldozer rapes its surface.

Gulls, raised by the foot of daybreak

fly about like dust motes

screaming

over man's forgotten hopes

eating

his buried dreams

and littering

the graves that rest at the foot

of Garbage Mountain.

Man made - man like.

at dusk the Mountain lies still,

a humped shadow,

waiting for the next day’s discard.

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And this one because it makes me smile.

The Reception

Dirty punch cups,

like drunken sailors,

cling to each other in the sink.

Debris litters the floor.

Packages and wrappings—

Macy’s, Nordstrom’s—

flutter in the breeze

as the bride & groom

run, giggling up the stairs.

The mother sits amidst the clutter.

A smile, as stiff as frosting

on the wedding cake,

clings firmly to her lips.

Exhaustion stars her eyes.

The house becomes sullenly silent,

only noisy memories remain,

and the sticky punch cups,

clumped together in the sink,

like drunken sailors.

ENJOY!