Battleship Poems - Poems about Battleship

In Playground of Imagination

...
Each day I wake as if I hold a sable brush in my hand
ready to paint upon a canvas what cannot be planned.
Or a pen to write about fantasies and adventures I find
in playground of imaginatio...

Nuclear Winter: Holiday Dinner Reimagined

...
We sat in the fallout 
of last year’s gift exchange—
smashed angel centerpiece 
taped back together 
as good as a rogue bomb 
if someone mentioned it.

Our voices dragged
like anchors throu...

my dogs drink water

...My dogs drink enough water
To fill up an oversized elephant
To drowned three camels
To sink a battleship

We cannot keep water in their bowls
And they have ten of them
Six inside
Four outside...

my dogs drink water

...My dogs drink enough water
To fill up an oversized elephant
To drowned three camels
To sink a battleship

We cannot keep water in their bowls
And they have ten of them
Six inside
Four outside...

The Empty Nest

...absence was noticeable like the wood yet blessed with nails of plenty
hellfire snuffed out gossiping walls abandoned
vacancy in one's upper regions merely invites painful issues
focus compliments ...

Detailing delicate defecation debacle

...Detailing delicate defecation debacle

Otherwise wordily titled: pooped out
after pouring bucketfuls of water into 
place of ablutions
all the while skipping to my loo
umpteen times courtesy ba...

The needle trick

...Put a nickel on the needle
Hold me down so I won't skip
Spin the red top round and round
Catch me before I hit the ground
You sunk my battleship 
You knocked my block off
You catch me quite off...

Forgive the Past the Present

...I
Never one to shackle one with the past
Yet humans use words to distort
Time, our guilt or responsibility
In that sense, the Past is a scapegoat
An escape route, and inconsistent ally:
If one ...

Downed

...A thundering spacecraft arriving out of nowhere,
a crashing, crushing presence
hurled downward until lamps blink, doors tremble
and roof shudders.

I count seconds into an electric darkness.
Th...

Detailing Delicate Defecation Debacle

...otherwise wordily titled: pooped out
after pouring bucketfuls of water into 
place of ablutions
all the while skipping to my loo
umpteen times courtesy bathtub faucet
turned toward hot temperatu...

Xmas Memories

...A
                                               TOP
                                              YOYO
                                             JACKS
                                        ...

Ship's Suicide

...In the shadow of the Second World War,
Fuehrer wanted to augment maritime power
and control the waters of the northern oceans. 
In the North Sea he proudly set sail Bismarck, 
the largest German ...

Its a Fix

...[In my youth, glue was tubes or bottles of gloop
for sticking stuff together: cement was grey powder
that you mixed with sand and gravel to make concrete]

***

I wish I spoke ...

Salt

...I hate salt for the sake of my cake
That is sodium-rich by the baker's mistake
And the syrup I poured
That I never ignored
Is more salty still
Then a fish with a sword

I like sugar and spice ...

Living Proof

...Back to the basics taking yall to school, my academics are to high to be attained by fools, my words above ya head like water to deep you ed up out here lost at sea, niggas will drown from the weight...

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