Barnacled Poems - Poems about Barnacled

The Pier Can't Always Keep You Where It Wants You To Be

...You stand with your suitcase like a buoy,
bright, bobbing in the shallows,
and I am the pier—
rooted, barnacled, smelling of old salt and rope.

You tell me you’ll stay
if I keep my hands wrapp...

Siren’s End

...Three corn husk dolls  
in a silvered cove—  
the tide takes two,  
barnacled eyes vacant. 

Our remaining doll frowns,  
drawn by a shrill song  
savage as a sea hiss—
til a gasp ends the si...

Learn Your Place In Society

...Prosperity proved no defense against the years or changing fates writ in the stars - nor masters of arms foresaw the weapons that unseated their lineages, leaving only ghostly bones where legions ral...

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...

Meditations On a Derelict Wharf

...The tide worn and barnacled pylons
holding up the wharf wobble 
on a sea swell like loose teeth.
Most of the decking planks
are missing. Those that remain 
span joists with bones
of rotted wood...

Bad Buys and Goodbyes

...Old Barnacle Bob just bought a boat

The barnacled boat just didn't float

His wife preferred he bought her a coat

I'm leaving you Bob was all she wrote...

If Dullness Be Your Plunder

...63.
      If Dullness Be Your Plunder

    Speech be silence gone amiss
    But if speech be ne'er to be.
    Choose words with some conviction
    Lest you dare to weary me.
    Tell a story ...

Whaler

...Harpoon raised,
 the chaser boat in full flight.
Coiled rope, explosive head,
 cold steel reflects
                the fading light.

Oil spill blood
 surrounds the ship,
a flag aloft wit...

Look Deeper

...Barnacled brows shutter
aged eye

Look deeper, look deeper
There's beauty inside 

Addiction, disease
Abused, neglected

Look deeper, look deeper
There's beauty inside

...

Alone Poem

...alone
your alone
alone isn't a crime

the problem is
nobody wants to be around alone
alone echoes
nobody cares to hear it
they'd rather listen to birds, a water fall, a 747 taking off
a wail...

Anchor

...I’ve been drifting for such a long time
This old ship with its seafaring ways
But big waves ever harder to climb
Seem to threaten to shorten my days

This old ship and its seafaring ways
Barnac...

Wracked With Ratiocination When Writing

...no shortage of familiar metier real
     (material) aye attest
welling up within thy breast
merely a predicament how to winnow

     junk bonded barnacled
     accretion encrusted
     amidst ...

Until We Were Blind To the Stars

...Day joined to expired day, 
nights lost to darkest night. 

Another year has defected 
to the phalanx arrayed against us, 
their iron hooves now thundering, 
their sheer number mocking
our plu...

She Is Nice

...This prose, a shipwreck...
Barnacled and long forgot
at the bottom of a lonely sea.

This song, a rusted railcar...
alone
      'n fallen 
        
           down 
                      a 
...

Blue Waiting

...Breathe elegance
of gray green
lessons in simplicity
blue heron waits

I watch your
minor shifts in moving
I’ve already squiggled
a dozen times
while you peer tall
on your barnacled stage
...

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