Time Albatross Poems

We are mislabeled as sea birds and should be called
big birds, like that yellow one but we're not yellow.
We never land on land for a...

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lost in the freedom
     ~up there in the endless sky~
           ...

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They called you Grandma - 
         matriarch of Taiaroa Head. 
Your husband of seventeen years, Blue Green,
...

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I see it now
flying low
over silver-spumed waves.

I am a watcher
I can enlarge the picture
        zoom in
look into bright...

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Think outside the box
Shed your shackles, chains and locks
Break through all the rocks

Stones will drag you down
To the depths until you drown
An albatrossed clown

Free your...

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Across the oceans crossing ferocious dark barriers of time
I've floated from Midway Atoll with fervent waves that chime,
humming melodies of my journeys to distant lands
making...

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A lbatross a wandering ~ the largest bird up in the sky
L ongest wingspan ever seen ‘twixt eight foot three to eleven foot six 
B...

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it starts as a baby alone
 then in no time it will roam
 searching for little minnows in its beak
 hunting and gathering
 in time...

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(After Charles Baudelaire)

Many a time, to amuse themselves, the sailors 
would trap an albatross, make it a slave. 
(These ruffians manned those old-time deep-sea whalers,...

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Find me where the albatross dives deep,
to rescue sailor's souls as maidens weep.
My time to brave the gales is at an end.
To golden shores I'll...

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Great wondering albatross flies above oceanic abyss
Many interesting creatures live where ocean waves land will kiss
On the endless horizon blue bliss
Of primordial ballad sea seems...

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At the dawn of the morning light
The great albatross takes flight
After nap he had last night
Basking in moon’s mysterious light

From the jugged cliff he takes...

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THE ALBATROSS
Under thunder blows a colder wind, across an endless sea,   
Like a voice from the call of a far off shore in...

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