Ahab Poems - Poems about Ahab

Gloomy international waters

...Let sail this doom and gloom
Drinking gasoline with a blue lighter
In the morning head up the gangplank
The hours till I lay down is a lifetime
I’ve become a child drunk on hydrocarbons
How will...

FAITH IN GOD WHO FORBIDS US TO NEGLECT OUR INHERITANCE FROM HIM

...April 20 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 21-22
 
Key Verse – 1Kings 21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto the...

Leviathan

...
 On bowride below gentle titans peep
   ghost ships of the Pacific hunt and chase -
 great barnacled seafarers of the deep
   beneath the waves its clear blue waters grace.
 Where yon an ol...

America at a critical political crossroads

...America at a critical political crossroads...,

nevertheless hope springs eternal,
especially after listening
to Vice President Kamala Harris
and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz
speak at the The Li...

'Forward Brave Souls' Victims of Ambition's Merciless Will

...“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.” 
– General George Pickett

Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze
Stood Pickett with his face etched...

small things

...
sun …

glints off sweaty trickles as
they plop … plop …
little lad’s littler fingers tickling a
tide pool’s papery face
things of mysterious intention, darting
there to here to there …
wide...

PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO INSTRUCTS US TO HUMBLE OURSELVES BEFORE HIM

...
April 19 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 21-22

Key Verse – 1Kings 21:28-29 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself...

Sidewalk Chemist

...
I test the gum
And the scum
That came from
So many feet
Scrape the blood
And the crud
Between mud
Smooshed on concrete

I sample spit
Ample birds***
All with a flick
Of the wrist
Coz I...

Sailin’ Away

...(Or, The Whaler) 

Everybody wants a piece of my action
Everyone wants a piece of me 
Time is money — no satisfaction 
All I want is to get myself free 

I became famous — 
Vulgar and shamele...

Captain Tabby Longtail

...Captain Tabby Longtail stands
Like Ahab at the helm,
His Jolly Roger flying high
Above his salty realm.
He’ll keelhaul your scurvy carcass
If you give him any bull,
And he’ll make you walk the ...

Job, There Is Forever

...Sturgeon Moon
So soon
Summer slips through our fingers
Our own version of Michigan underwater beasts
Ogling the luminous bellies of boats swimming down Clam River

Dockside a roar with Ahab rev...

Whale Wayfarers

...Whale Wayfarers

By Mark Stucky
Are you obsessed like Captain Ahab,
horizon-bound to harpoon that whale?
Could that addiction shipwreck you
and drown loved ones surround...

Who Dares Rouse Leviathan

...Who dares rouse Leviathan,
the Giant beneath the heaving deeps?
This world now teams with Ahabs
whose heaping anger never sleeps.
Each one wants to hook its jaw
and each to press its tongue;
to...

Prophetical Contests

...Prophetical contests 
When I see many poetry contests
Some competitions of some master poets
I always wish to see competitions of prophets.
As prophet Elijah competed with the Prophets of Baal.
...

Poetry Keeps a Day

...Poetry will not keep you warm
Not like a cat nestled between legs
But, it hunts down manic thoughts
Gnashes the static till the mind gives 
Chases a thought till claws are bloody
Keeps you drenc...

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