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to sail the sky -

* For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness *

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Categories: abaft, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea,
Form: Couplet

My Eyes Turn Back

I've courted luck, in countless ways
      Against the ragged judgments and self-umbrage
        ...

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Categories: abaft, age, growth, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

Marked Wrists

Behind those hidden marked wrists
Are lies, skepticism and fears
Behind those calloused, clenched fists
Is a cauldron of uncontrollable tears.

Behind those evident scars
Is a constant cycle of...

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Categories: abaft, abuse, death, depression, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Clouds Over Your Head

clouds as fluffy as the whistling bliss
encircling in the sky, eyes fonder and kiss

abaft the hidden pillows of lace
brightness over hays above Thy grace...

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Categories: abaft, creation,
Form: Couplet

Groom In Bloom

Down the dreamed aisle
  comes the bliss of your sight
Cord of your life
  sinew of your might.
Abaft the unending trek
  comes the...

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Categories: abaft, for her, for him,
Form: Sehra

Lost At Sea

The ship was atoss on the ungallant sea
The swells took a toll as the hull strained and cracked
It would be fair time afore it sought...

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Categories: abaft, sea, weather,
Form: Free verse

Life's Struggle and Limits

One day our ship will port in a place of peace and wonder.
Abaft facing the wind and sails at rest.
Limp from its journey, tired and...

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Categories: abaft, adventure, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Your Warmth: a Sailor's Tale

All is calm, all is at rest where once a storm had brew. No spray of mist, no violent torrent, nor upheaval of swelling wave...

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Categories: abaft, home, sea, storm, sun,
Form: Prose

Rime of the Ridiculous Mariner

" Rime of the Ridiculous Mariner "

{warbled to the Merry Tune: Jingle Bells!}

Jingle Bells & Flyin' Hulls
All sheets in so tight~
Yikes Ahoy! There's the ploy!
Sail...

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Categories: abaft, adventure, me, may, me,
Form: Rhyme

The Wind Beneath My Wings

The wind beneath my wings was a fart
And excuse me is all I could say;
Flying here where worlds apart
As the good folk looked on in...

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Categories: abaft, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

My Dream 14yrs Old

Enter to come
Suffer into
So I appeared
Soused in my tripes
A semblance cast
School way in halls
Visage of black
Takes two steps to
I ebb trail back
Forthwith I flashed
In bathroom...

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Categories: abaft, addiction, child, teen,
Form: Bio

Odyssey of Night

We've sought our sextant, fair and free,
          Thus bound with dreams, this starlit sea -
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Categories: abaft, analogy, fantasy, journey, science
Form: Kyrielle

Achilles' Heel

Leave those tears abaft how did you come to be?
Water in the lungs rehearsed the narrative say within the seam,
seeing you as you speak, Achilles'...

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Categories: abaft, character, dark, endurance, fear,
Form: Free verse

Odyssey of Night

We've sought our sextant, fair and free,
          Thus bound with dreams, this starlit sea -
 ...

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Categories: abaft, adventure, imagery, science fiction,
Form: Kyrielle

Lying Haiku

We fly forever up high
In our own blue sky
Thru clouds, past rain, moon abaft...

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Categories: abaft, allegory, flying, inspiration, sky,
Form: Haiku