Best Dockside Poems
Preparedness
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Preparedness
By: Tom Wright
Feb. 1, 1998
Merely waiting
for your ship to come in
is not sufficient.
You must be dockside, prepared and
scanning the horizon.
Those who are content ......
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Categories:
dockside, life,
Form:
Free verse
Acrostic Man: a Collaboration With Ken Duddle
...Form: Acrostic
Don’t walk by,pretend not to see
Outside in the cold is no place to be
Whistle to yourself,think glad it’s not me
No-one can escape their destiny.
No-one can prepare ......
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Categories:
dockside, adventure, community,
Form:
Rhyme
Audrey Bowden
...A Lincolnshire lass was she
in youth and bloom revealing,
and upon us all God smiled
when unto this world a child
was born and bred in Healing
Red flower of the Midlands -
......
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Categories:
dockside, thanksgiving day, voyage,
Form:
Rhyme
Postscript
......for Hart Crane - In Memoriam - (1899-1932)
Words of purpose, carved and struck,
as chipped from granite's cold confines,
fashioned into filigrees
that shocked and startled feebler mind......
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Categories:
dockside, writing, , In Memoriam,
Form:
Quatrain
Just a Witty Bitty, From One So Silly
...My T.V. just left, said he was
Gonna go out and catch a real movie...
Those on T.V. stations have grown too trite,
My refrigerator told me,
He ain't letting me in no more...
At least till I drop......
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Categories:
dockside, adventure, angst, mystery, parody,
Form:
Burlesque
The Dreadful Mourn
...I'm a Piketown son who left his mum
To sail the eastern shores
Spent a year in Gloucester
'mong the barkeeps and the whores
Then a man came 'round to Gloucester town
Said boys I need a few......
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Categories:
dockside, history, sea, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Le Quai
...Sitting on a quiet dock
Gulls and raptors nearby talk
Spring is clearly in the air
Longer days, more light to spare
Dancing sunlight on the bows
Lazy current, still in drowse
Moving where the......
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Categories:
dockside, for her, i love
Form:
Rhyme
Chinwag Pies
...Chinwag Pies
A crowd gathers
Where the poor run wild,
Relentlessly taunting
An innocent child,
Scathing, scalding
Thieving eyes,
Scrimping, scraping
Chinwag pies.
Two a penny
F......
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Categories:
dockside, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Postscript
......for Hart Crane - In Memoriam - (1899-1932)
Words of purpose, carved and struck,
as chipped from granite's cold confines,
fashioned into filigrees
that shocked and startled feebler minds.
T......
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Categories:
dockside, dedication, , In Memoriam,
Form:
Quatrain
Pride Slays Advice
...Stem the tide your pride rides
To a puerile pinnacle
In a vain belief it makes sensational strides
When like a locust your spiracle
Exhales carbon dioxide
To catalyze photosynthesis for red ro......
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Categories:
dockside, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Postscript
......for Hart Crane - In Memoriam - (1899-1932)
Words of purpose, carved and beaten,
chipped from granite's cold confines,
fashioned into filigrees
that shocked and startled feeble minds.
The Bridg......
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Categories:
dockside, loss, sympathy, , In
Form:
Quatrain
Dockside Encounter
...She took him in completely
that first day of July
walking across a dockside
capturing his soul
harnessing all of the gentle love
of an Irish man
in the second it takes
for a dream t......
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Categories:
dockside, loveday, river,
Form:
Free verse
Postscript
......for Hart Crane - In Memoriam - (1899-1932)
Words of purpose, carved and struck,
as chipped from granite's cold confines,
fashioned into filigrees
that shocked and startled feebler mind......
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Categories:
dockside, dedication, , In Memoriam,
Form:
Quatrain
As I Sail To You
...Far out on Neptune's briny sea,
my hammock holding still
while the ship slowly rocks side to side,
tired and lonely, I close my eyes.
In this darkness I can hear
the constant lapping of the wave......
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Categories:
dockside, adventure,
Form:
ABC
Oh How I Love and Do Miss the Sea
...The waves crash hard like a fist
They hit the bank and create a soothing mist
I walk the beach and the sand parts my toes
It cures me of my earthly woes
The sound of the water striking th......
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Categories:
dockside, nature
Form:
Rhyme Royal