Best Circumnavigating Poems

I hear England's strong voice praising its past:
Football's World Cup glory in 1966,
Shakespeare and Marlowe penning plays,
Sir Francis Drake circumnavigating the world,
Queen Elizabeth I, with...

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“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”



The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip...

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On a typical English day late June Joe travelled the above country road, his buisness was in the construction field, and this day he was...

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My husband and I were newly wed and cash poor. It was Easter weekend and the weather unusually fine for the time of year. Both...

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TORPEDOS’ NAPALM

T remors shocked the penguins of the Arctic Circle.
O rbital the water lobbed in the ocean.
R otating in a circumnavigating format
P enguins dangled high...

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Anchors Aweigh...Destination Unknown

Weather beaten cap'n,
     and watertight bewitched craft
time tested since maiden voyage
     (circumnavigating the globe
back in...

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Noised silence pulls me
in a broken wilderness 
I drift amidst time
circumnavigating what
this dark abyss beckoning

Suddenly, a light
out of the black I appear
into a blue day
Angelic...

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PHANTOM ROY

The Roy moves out
its an hour past mid nite
moves into the street

Phantom moving through the near empty streets
not much going on at this late...

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The First Thanksgiving (Sept. 3, 1578)

The shortest distance to Cathay 1
(Land of riches: silks, teas and spices)
Lay to the north to the South Sea. 2
Didn’t...

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THE FIRE INSIDE

I have to tamp down
the fire inside
for not all are stoked
with flaming eyes
my cheeriness
might be their demise

the fire inside
explosive it drives
the quiet insane
so...

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circumnavigating
the corners of my mind
in latitude and longitude
i chart my oceanic voyage
through turbulence
of sea and clouds

in solitude
finally reach calm waters
turning off the power
sit adrift on...

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Trees in my neighborhood walk around naked                  ...

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Herald the star that blooms, the trumpet and the scroll.
O God the bluest eye, it magnifies my soul.
Encompass calvary, the greatest light that shines.
Beautiful Bethlehem,...

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I sifted through my insides and decided to wear them on the outside
Just for the pleasure of it
Also to see the reactions of people who...

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The tip of a finger, barely touching ulcerated skin
   Chamfered ache of reason, or finely balanced whim
  Forced through a reality, where...

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