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Russell Island, AGAIN...
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Russell Island, AGAIN...
Russell Island, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and brianrrs37 on twitter)

From the veranda
Overlooking the sloped backyard
To see the beauty 
Is not that hard

Mangrove trees
With octopus roots
In low tide
Attack the drying mud

Great pretender
This half moon lagoon
Pretending it is a dry riverbed
In some scorching part of Africa

But no,
It is just a slight indentation
In my friend's back yard
High tide will remind it

Shimmering silverback waters
No you are not Africa
The underlying turqoise
Of the bay will remind you

The calm tide gently creeps in
It wants to sooth the angry roots
Lapping around them as if
They're  photons acting as both particle and wave

Those clever double slit waters
Undulate the shadows of the roots
Swaying and snaking 
Under the broccoli branch mangrove

And those chimps 
Are not Orangatangs
Any which way but loose 
They're kookaburras

Lap lap lap
The tide slowly creeps in
A heavy piece of driftwood
Submerges like a navy sub

But it is only temporary 
The tide retreats
Those angry roots
Exposed again
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Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Brian37 - May 11, 2020 at 6:30 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 11, 2020 at 6:31 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Rhizomorph13 - May 11, 2020 at 6:50 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 11, 2020 at 6:58 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Rhizomorph13 - May 11, 2020 at 7:01 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 11, 2020 at 7:02 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Brian37 - May 11, 2020 at 7:36 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 11, 2020 at 7:37 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Brian37 - May 12, 2020 at 8:47 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 12, 2020 at 8:52 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Brian37 - May 12, 2020 at 10:00 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 13, 2020 at 6:19 am
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by arewethereyet - May 13, 2020 at 9:58 am
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Brian37 - May 13, 2020 at 11:45 am
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by arewethereyet - May 13, 2020 at 11:53 am
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Brian37 - May 13, 2020 at 12:00 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 13, 2020 at 12:35 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 13, 2020 at 10:47 am
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Brian37 - May 13, 2020 at 1:26 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 13, 2020 at 2:05 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Brian37 - May 13, 2020 at 9:06 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 13, 2020 at 9:12 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 13, 2020 at 9:09 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Brian37 - May 13, 2020 at 11:20 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 14, 2020 at 4:32 am
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Little lunch - May 14, 2020 at 7:55 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - May 14, 2020 at 8:48 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by arewethereyet - May 14, 2020 at 8:59 pm
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Little lunch - May 15, 2020 at 3:14 am
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Hillbillyatheist - May 15, 2020 at 12:09 am
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Gawdzilla Sama - May 15, 2020 at 9:23 am
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Brian37 - May 16, 2020 at 12:46 am
RE: Russell Island, AGAIN... - by Brian37 - May 15, 2020 at 9:31 am

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