Best Baltic Poems

A seaman sails east,
trailing the sight of dawn,
as the seagulls dance in the wind.

He stands with a smile,
watching them flutter
with their bright, beautiful blend.

The sailor is brushed
by a comforting breeze
while looking at an island ahead.

He stares it in silence,
with its ominous clouds
hovering with a glow...

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Was it a reproduction
Of a Rothko in a book resting on his lap,
A swathe of black sky over 
A grey sea, perhaps, 
That triggered it.
He recalled pictures of
Brutalist concrete bunkers and silos,
Sinister dark steel ramps,
That carried doddlebugs and V2 rockets.
He relived a moment in a...

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amish capital of holmes county
feed mills, flour mills,
amish canned goods
bringing in tourism
broasted chicken
horses chopping up state route 93
leavign souveniers on road way
'family park along creek
as train goes through town
children retreiving coins on tracks
as they are worn thin
BALTIC
home at one time
now somewhere to go for vacation
while...

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Glass
prisms
criss-cross the
cold expansive
sea.


Ekphrasis after Sailboats by Feininger...

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Don't eat the bear 
and the bear won't eat you
Don't stomp on flowers
Don't spit on the dew
If you are a bad person
your life will worsen
But if you are good  
then there's no need for cursin' 
Yoi yoi la la la la yoi yoi la....

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