Until Those Last Lost Beach Sequences

By jonLyndon

How is it time always fades
all those oceans
we've shared
the shades...
red under such Van Gogh sunsets
watching time, dreaming...
finding our years in
the slow-stars.
We lived. We laughed. We loved.
And the end is always coming
sooner than we think

(for us all)

No one needs to be Einstein
to understand that.
Take a breath,
enjoy
the ebbs and flows...

feel the beach sands in your toes;
the lifts
the night shifts
the coral hours...

(yesterday is never tomorrow)

You recall filmi fragments from the
last few times you've been
here / there...
the inner versions of Anton Corbijn's
portraits of
Mexico &/or Baja California beach souls;
the blue splashed sunset piso majado drinks
like neon ghosts
glowing fish
pixalating, fading away;
the ne plus ultra cessation
that lost sensation
of every last night.

Remembering when you visited
her South Miami beach house
for that last, lost time
how she was performing your song,
the one you wrote for her
that afternoon in Paris
listening to the rain...
airplanes above
as the ocean waves crash
below...

What your father used to say,
thinking of Castillo de San Marcos,
"the ship beached near the port"
you never understood
but it held something
the way her eyes
hold you,
all those sunsets in the Gulf...

Old footsteps wash into tidepools,
wash into the black fogs
the salt-marshes;
the credits roll.

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Copyright 2010 jonLyndon
Published on Wednesday, November 3, 2010.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • Railway_Butterfly On Monday, May 14, 2012, Railway_Butterfly (354)By person wrote:

    I've just read through it again, I can't seem to help wanting to keep going over.. it just flows so deliciously. Lovely, lovely piece.. i'm looking forward to doing some more digging..

  • Railway_Butterfly On Monday, May 14, 2012, Railway_Butterfly (354)By person wrote:

    I've found myself rifling through DP a bit more again, recently.. and I naughtily borrowed the company iPad at work today on my break, thinking that it'd been so long since i'd visited to yours. I fell head first into this and found it tinted the rest of my day with it's images.. you know i've always been a big fan of the gritty city-esque backdrops that often accompany your work, but I loved reading this.. it was quite refreshing and actually really relevant to me now, in a way that I doubt I could articulate into this little box. Actually I felt like I really noticed how long it's been since I first found your work, reading this. Perhaps it's my imagination but I felt like I could see a real mind-shift and maybe that's where i'm drawing the relevance from..

  • A former member wrote: a beautifully encapsulated sentiment/sediment; a quiet finality bereft with a beauty intrinsically understood......pretty pretty piece.

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