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Breakwater.

You’re a watermark.
Come, ache on me
and seal my certainty…

Am I here, Warden?

Your enduring anchor
leaves me live,
with my thrashing echoed
in the thrill of dislocation
– socket-by-limb –
from sea, to you, to skin;
the leashed can’t swim,
turnkey –

I rest snuffed under currents,
as you siphon the sweet
from my street moments,
beat on ebony leather aisles
– patent and sinister –
riven with cobbled eyes to clutter
confusion from the
city-to-sea terminal
after it rains.

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gotta take my dog out for a walk
on our trail....
this is powerful
clever...impactive
dark and rich
dripping with that undercurrent
of intellectual passion
and isms...

wow oh wow...

thank U!!
thank U!!

Thanks for reading, Esker.

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I can simply endorse
A WOW

Thank you, Lovedly! I appreciate your comment.

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"Sigh*"

so romantically and darkly richly
worded...(Dark chocolate poem)
Spanish expresso
French Gitanes
your writing is a classy era
feeling and stratosphere of
dusk twilight and dawn

I gush about this
but it is wonderful
Your writing I can adore
so well..as the superior
quality of its handling
and cornering and magic
word use that is like
fireworks in my brilliant
genius mind..

others comment on
my works being like
this for them...
I can only appreciate
their love the my gift
I share....and found
..find in your poetry
the same heady
feeling of spirit
when I read your
dynamic works..

Thank U!

Thank you, Esker! You seem to be my only fan/reader around here, and I am more than pleased that that lone fan/reader is a writer such as yourself.

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still do..just did this today...
at my mall there is a gorgeous brunette
girl from a far off land seeling kiosk beauty
aids..they dress them in black
we were alread chatting and joking
high fiving each other

Im not a lotharian..more an eccentric
librarian who loves people like books
reading both with intuition
intel and stories more my joy

we need each other to praise
and spark that want to be recognized
and attention
but often its just a competition
and power struggle with its gossip
bah.....not my scene
I like the travellers and schmooze
people who are gifted
and can operate mature and
well with others.

I have a woman..
and I have many women friends
on other sites...
im funny....witty...secure and
not afraid to stand up for
them or myself
I love independence and
independent people
why I work for an orhtopeadic
lab..now just as a day cleaner
they are very sucessful and
wealthy..they love my sketches
and cartoons and humor
and I bust my ass making their
techy works spaces clean
and tidy...im a detail man...

I love brilliant minds that can
corner....
most people are caught up
being petty and mean

blah blah Boo rah..
Hey..

I just wrote a ditty of a poem
thats trying to rhyme and
be in this bohemian mode
and yes
in the past I hung out in
packed tourist bars
sober then for ten years
dancing with the trophy
wives of the good bad
and ugly who came in
on fridays and weekends
to blow off steam..
war was over during
those days of truce
and I listened to a lot
of everyone who wanted
to talk...they lived the edge
but liked me...
a great life and I still do
this still...
why I have a lot of respect
from a lot of very well
umm..organized world
wide outfits...

I like classy expensive things
because they last
are worth something
and look good

Neopoet to me is like this
and for most part the
calibre of poets too

thank U....I think u are so
cool...
its nice having such
a talent as U as a friend
here!

Mr Wolf!

the thief thiefs keep...and lost
Sylvian...a new word
meaning!
Well Thank U Ms Gemma!
yes...
one of the remarkable new!
like music I keep posting to
my FB
some things for me
I find the most sinful
enjoyment of reading
and finding in them
a thrill
*shivers*
I enjoy a lot of writers
but there are some that
for me personally
just are like an opiate
such is the vibrant power
in my brain upon reading..

one of my fave poems of
hers!!

thank U!

Mr Wolf!

(a long time ago...think it was
something..snap..username
anyway..she wanted to know
what an hour like would be
in my brain)

now I know what she meant..
Happy thanksgiving y'all!

Mr Wolf!

and I finally figured out why, apart from its disturbing content, kind of used to that. I've been on a reading jag and when I came to read it it was hard to do. Poetry is always aloud for me so even though I hadn't vocalised it my 'poet's ear' or whatever heard it. Can you?
https://soundcloud.com/neopoet/breakwater-by-sommer-lyn
Worked out fine in the end, just had to do a few takes, normally do it in one.

May I have your permission to post this to our Neopoet Facebook page?

cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
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