Best Mutiny Poems

I dedicate this poem to Thomas Cunningham,
who I admire for the tales he tells in poetry form. 

MUTINY

I stands at the bow
Proud to lead
I get the first catch
and splash
Pretense while I breathe
as if our lips our sealed together
in this hallowed breeze
The skill of his hands
that...

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It was a sight that I could not forsee
Ambushed by my own men at morning hour
Hands tight with cord and naked from the waist
A mean air on the Bounty blew unkind
It was the troubled wind of mutiny
My men, whose morals all have been erased
Once officers,...

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Sifting through blood & marrow
Excavating remnants of my heart
Trying to piece together
The reason for my treason
Nervously sitting upon the judgment seat
Twiddling my guilt away
Beads of blood mix with perspiration 
As the adversary begins to interrogate
No amount of negotiation 
Can save me from my sins
No amount...

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The Amistad Mutiny

Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle Passage3 leg of the voyage,
Disenfranchised from their Mendiland4 home in...

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Mutiny Of The Mind

Did You Eva Stop to Think
What about tomorrow
What is really on the other-side of today?
Should I force myself to go along
When my insides tell me, things are wrong.?

Did You Eva Stop to Think
Could my life had gone a different way,
If I’d chosen...

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MUTINY ON THE SPANISH MAIN
Avast ye scum, ye've backed me to the wall
and evil's all I see there in yer eyes;
but I won't hesitate to meet the call
to fight if I must fight, so realize

that what yer comin to is yer own choice
to spend the...

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Lived eight years in a retirement community
Best eight years, so thankful for the opportunity
Elderly ladies clamoured around me
Best looking oldster they ever did see
Had to beat them off with a stick to avoid a mutiny...

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H M S Bounty
harsh sadistic Captain Bligh. . .
Fletcher's restraint breaks






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved. 
First published 2018 in Hollywood Haiku via wattpad.com...

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The Ancient mutiny of the Twain

In the beginning were both made
To dwell in unison and not to trade
You abode with each other in Eden
And never was anyone a burden.

The Author made one with the soiling sand
Molding him beautifully like he had been caned
So there he...

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Lived eight years in a retirement community
Best eight years, so thankful for the opportunity
Elderly ladies clamoured around me
Best looking oldster they ever did see
Had to beat them off with a stick to avoid a mutiny

Never too old!...

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Rebellion against Things that God detests, can be seen as Mutiny.
The gathering of things from Greed, is noted to be a bounty.

Accumulating anything from all around is Greed.
This accumulation does not make the greedy Freed!

Everything that the eye catches in another's Space,
Cause greedy ones to...

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Breathe Mutiny

Shackle my hands so I cannot write.
My words will still put up a fight.

If ideas offend you, close the book.
If you seek the truth take a closer look.

Try all you can to put me down.
You will end up looking like the clown.

My verse is...

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The water has receded
And I can see everything
in the bottom of the stream
Big pebbles of assorted colors
covering each other
frogs scampering about
and big fish meddling around
I stared in the silent water 
watching rubble floating on top 
giant rocks planted in the sand 
unaware of what is...

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Love and romance
Emotions, they soar
Time stands still
Like a frozen fire
Passion, it erupts
The bodies mutiny
Raging, I touch you
Life cells rearrange
Carnage, rebirth
Wild and uncontrolled
The soul is awakened
Desire mounts, waiting
The heart begins to sing
It is a beautiful song
It is the song of love

~Rick Berry...

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Captain Bligh was his name,
he ruled his ship with an iron cane.
The Bounty was the ship,
sailing to Tahiti, via Cape Horn was the trip.
At Cape Horn, after tacking back and forth,
eastward, was set the course.
It was the long way round,
but they were still Tahiti bound.
After...

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