Best Figurehead Poems

There once was a pirate from Antilles
That chased all the young beautiful fillies
To all a deception vow 
Carving of them on ships bow 
Lies brought doom, now lies in field of lilies


4/10/2019


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Figurehead alone 
Powerless to change a thing
Ancient figure standing
In the middle of a forgotten land
Unable to recreate the relationship 
That once was so relevant...

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Riding a thermal, without a flap of wings,
hot air billowing his black cloth canvas,
a crow sails the gray ocean of a foggy afternoon.

No flap of the wings, no readjustment
of rope and sail, it seems as though he is
not moving at all; a figurehead
as the Earth...

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