Jan Portugal

Joined May 2021

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I love the adventure writing takes me on. I enjoy the idea of sharing them with an audience. I hope you enjoy my visions too.

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Home of the Brave
I’m driving somewhere through downtown America passing the familiar hunched over forms of the homeless helpless nomads seeding the boulevard
By Jan Portugal5 years ago in Poets
Her own highway
I was attending one of those spiritual awareness groups so popular in the 90’s, very hip very knowing, many books for sale. We chanted HU for twenty minutes and bonded in anonymity - so effective it was almost psychedelic.
By Jan Portugal5 years ago in Poets
The day Brian Wilson wrote
I went to a party last Saturday, just a casual affair. I wasn’t expecting to find anyone I knew, it was another typical weekend Venice Beach party. Half naked, beautiful people getting stoned and avoiding bonding as much as possible.
By Jan Portugal5 years ago in Humans
Love is in the air
We’re captive in an electronic wave of ones and zeros they seem to take on a life of their own The myriad ways of forming words
By Jan Portugal5 years ago in Poets
Suns and lovers
In a hammock by the fish pond naked - alone I pose for the sun body arched In surrender to this uncommon lover
By Jan Portugal5 years ago in Poets
Like a Rock
Gods force is like an ethereal rock thrown into the spiritual waters of life it expands boundless in concentric rings commanding evil intentions to stop
By Jan Portugal5 years ago in Poets
Before it’s over
Excuse me I’m looking for the exit This universal play is getting me down I’m no longer content with lessor illusions I’ve accumulated too many wandering around
By Jan Portugal5 years ago in Poets
Distressed, Faded and Frayed
Unlike the poets Vallejo and Neruda I have not known deep grief grief that fashions splintered lives and becomes the marrow of sleep
By Jan Portugal5 years ago in Poets
Imagine That
I can see things happen as they happen imagination spreading in all directions like the RKO Radio tower announcing a Saturday matinee
By Jan Portugal5 years ago in Poets
Cyber Love
Obsession, that’s my passion whatever grabs my attention at any given time activates my acumen for finding out every detail about whatever it is. be it product, person or premonitions. I like to think it keeps dementia at bay.
By Jan Portugal5 years ago in Confessions
Yes, but is it Religion?
Two people on the beach Playing a game of toss with a fish How odd I thought After a while I realized It wasn't a game
By Jan Portugal5 years ago in Poets
Whale Dreams
Whale in it’s watershed dreaming of an answer to extinction forty million years feeling its own weight floating Whale slaves to waters surface
By Jan Portugal5 years ago in Poets

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Home of the Brave

Her own highway

The day Brian Wilson wrote

Love is in the air

Suns and lovers

Like a Rock

Before it’s over

Distressed, Faded and Frayed

Imagine That

Cyber Love

Yes, but is it Religion?

Whale Dreams

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