Best Doubloon Poems

The summer moon was swollen, blue
          A flaw that girl knew thru-and-thru
    ...

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I sigh …
pushing warm, wordless weight
onto the twilight mist,
where its folly hangs like old sackcloth,
the silver-doubloon moon dripping
it’s wan wonder to daub
breath and bones alike...

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Treasure from the sea
Golden doubloon
Sixteenth Century artifact
By ancestors hewn

Earth’s history lays buried
Beneath five oceans
As undersea tremors
Create violent commotions

Freeing from Spanish galleons
Precious metals, gemstones
To greet early...

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I knelt amidst the mountain's rise
        beneath the weeping opal skies
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We sat upon the rocks, my love and I

Atop Mount Cadillac, there by the sea

And as a doubloon sun slid down the sky

I asked her,...

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Alone and weary ...
   she dangled toes o'er the mountain ledge -
 the late-October night was clear
and bitter cold, yet as still as...

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How did a decent lady like me end up here, anyway?
The only girl aboard a ship of unsavory men.
The last thing I remember was sipping...

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"O summer wants to know just why
You're oft' to chase me off the sky,"
Said Moon to Sun, with teary eye,
"For it's quite up to me...

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Look up to a sky full of stars
akin to sparkling diamonds.
And watch a gold doubloon moon climb
high amidst a starlit background.

Not a sound, just you...

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I knelt amidst the mountain's rise, beneath the weeping opal skies,
      There to measure Io's swoon - the envy of...

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As twilight's shifting shadows slowly merge,
dusk extinguishes all lingering light.
And a spray of twinkling stars lights the night
as the blackness of space and night converge.

Indigo...

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As dusk adopts a scarlet hue,
cerise ribbons package the night.
And an owl bids daylight adieu,
silhouetted against last light.

Our hearts hitch a ride to the moon,
on...

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I'm a briny whore
wit' reekin' drawers
me honor ter make yer acquenchance
th' skipper's maid
me port's decayed
one doubloon, yer seafarin' urchin?

Yer scurvy rat
a-crawl wit' gnat
orf seadog scourged...

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14 July 2010

The Sea Rover


Moving sideways or careening
All hands hoay and avast ye
Sea dogs and landlubbers go on pillaging
Jolly Roger is flapping guarded by cannon...

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TENERIFE

Two lovers by the ragged strand once trod
the sooty sand; slender maid with raven 
hair, fisher boy of bronze; the dazzling sun
a gold doubloon, the...

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