Best Nets Poems

The old fisherman sat in his dory

Empty nets, but concocting a story

It would sure mean his life

Should he greet his young wife

At the dock without financial quarry.


Now his wife was as fit as could be

With the girth and the might of a tree

He considered her...

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Return 
to the fresh ocean,
without tears of the storm....

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Players of two teams were booting the Ball
Ball between legs not finding rest at all
Tolerating merciless kicks, hoping kiss with Net 
Whiffing restlessly 90 minutes, 44 legs sweat 
Flirted with both Nets, stayed loyal to Octopus Paul    


( Oct 2010 - Won...

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a man and woman
walking on separate paths –
children scream loudly

rose petals falling
as flowers die on the vine –
three boys pricked alone

weeping willow trees
shroud their twisted trunks with limbs –
tree house and laughter

early in the day
sun shines above the frog pond –
boys, buckets, and nets

June 29,...

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Love is whispered and not forgotten
If this be so
I deaf to soft lipped invitations seek no thought of hope
I of no past collection hold thought
To forget is gruesome and beautiful

My eyes, swift allies in my war of world tell no lies

Silent in the 4 walled...

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Dockworkers on strike, the ocean gray
and choppy. Wind whips the rigging 
of a sailing ship with its weathered hag – 
figurehead once lovely in a gentler
age. What Time weaves of us. A line 

from memory flits to places farther 
inland, when you were younger, every-
thing...

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"I Am casting My net, oh don't you see? and I have my prophets and
disciples following Me not only in word but deed, as we stand  with even
space between us so that we can cast our nets far, wide and deep with the
hope of...

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A nice, pretty Jewish woman 
told me a while back 
that she thought Basketball was for Black people 
   What she didn't realize is that it used to be called 
"The Jewish Game".  
I passed through a period as a youth when...

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out on the hungover gray moor
having morning coffee with the old man of the sea
we say nothing in this silvered wooden shack
lots of coats to put on, it's all very humdrum

the boat cuts through small yapping wavelets
possibly never to return, but of course we will
the...

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Men have two nets,
To stay in and to stay out,
One on the bed,
One on the sea!...

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Cast your net upon the waters
 let your words and Visions flow 
from breast to breast 
Let The Healing Waters begin the flow 
you are cured
 like in a bird and the blue skies let it soar
 let your words comfort me 
that your Deeds...

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Rans nets, which bind and trap.
Ensnare and incapacitate all who swim in the oceans of life
I tangle thy golden skeins.
Your pearlescent webs that move in the voids between the 9 dimensions.
Your webs of final fate that float and dance between the worlds.
Ensnaring everybody in the...

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sun-nets:

...for realism in action...

there be
a sound of silence
as to such 
natures wisdoms

they be
dated and buried
hidden in time
lists of dates

what be
such as combination
key to calendar
of poetic writings

be it

2020
2019
2018

or other?


stan sand...

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Ballad
by William Soutar
translation/modernization by Michael R. Burch

O, surely you have seen my love
Down where the waters wind:
He walks like one who fears no man
And yet his eyes are kind!

O, surely you have seen my love
At the turning of the tide:
For then he gathers in his...

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Striking along an azure shore,
Lover’s footprints formed in our wake
Are like a school of funny fish,
With little spoon-like fins, which swim,
Midst gaping clams and scuttled crabs
Scattered about the wet smooth strand,
To a great rock beside the sea.

And who will know we blazed the way
Along this...

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