Surfer Dude

Surfer Dude

A Poem by Earl Schumacker
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Surfing the universe

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Surfer Dude


Surfer dude pounds the high waves parallax

Oceans warm the cockles of his heart

Waxed as fine as the boards he rides upon

Flipped to the horizon upside down relaxed


Tucked inside a wave, hunched over as if old

Blonde curls through translucence

A ghostly figure of a tsunami man appears

Tanned to perfection for a grand slam landing


Surfer dude rides Hawaii’s gnarly waves

Too many i’s and islands cause suspicion

But he braves them anyway to summer’s end

A tubular event for hanging 10s

Sunlight reveals a shadow, a bandanna red

Emerging with the moving tunnel’s warrior


The thin waves roll on to Jupiter, to Neptune

A thought left behind recalls a tiny spot called Earth

A syllabicated rapture of a red bandanna lost

When you forget, you forget the wet

Silhouetted through the universe’s fractured web


To Saturn's rings he surfs the tidal boundaries

On jet boards as dangerous as that seems

Misinterpretations of collisions come quickly

Disintegrations occur more frequently

Ice and rock debris aren’t always friendly

Impacts are likely in the dead of forever night

Vast cosmic seas explode in motion

Have no mercy once agitated

No memory of paradise equipped with fish

No forgiveness for the dumb among us

For the vertical minded and their kind

But there are endless waves of light


A chance to be paralyzed has passed blonde by

Immortals never die before sunrise

Turtled up in his rubber suit

Covered cozy shooting through the stars

He sometimes yawns but then remembers

There is no oxygen in open space



Surfer dude pounds the high waves parallax

Oceans warm the cockles of his heart

Waxed as fine as the boards he rides upon

Flipped to the horizon upside down beyond




© 2022 Earl Schumacker


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Live around beaches imperial beach Santa Cruz where it's cool, this write brought back memories.
Thank you for sharing.

Posted 2 Years Ago


Earl Schumacker

2 Years Ago

Hi Mauricio, Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. Beaches are the best places on earth. They are lite.. read more
Mauricio Montoya

2 Years Ago

You're welcome hey imperial Beach you had the surfers and the other low rider's you'd hear surfers .. read more

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Added on July 29, 2022
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Tags: Adventure, surfing, oceans, universe

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Earl Schumacker
Earl Schumacker

Atlantic City, NJ



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B.A. Degree in Literature and Language. I enjoy writing short stories, poetry, novels and keeping up with new scientific discoveries. I enjoy philosophy and Art appreciation. more..

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