Best Outboard Poems

He sat there in his fav'rite chair, a blanket 'cross his lap 
And covering his snow white hair was his old fishing cap. 
I knew he could not talk to me since suffering the stroke, 
But still I sensed he could relate to ev'ry word...

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Four palms, one taller, the other three measure the same.
Heavily anchored in sand, all are vertical climbers of this azure sky.
Eight new fronds per palm, the older ones neatly trimmed by man.
No cocoanuts anywhere to be seen, their hazard great, if allowed to fall.
Growing 40-50...

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Were going to the Florida Keys! Were going to Florida Keys!
As I mentioned we were on our way to the Florida Keys... 
it was my mother, father, my sisters and me the brother of the family, 
driving down the road for what seemed to be...

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The last few agonizing moments aboard the ill-fated Titanic,
Were no doubt filled with horror and unabated panic.
She slipped 'neath the waves to settle on the floor of the sea,
To create a watery grave for 1500 souls who rest for all eternity.

I dreamed that I descended...

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By Thomas Lam Hsi Andress (TLH ANDRESS)
THE 'AUDACITY' OF DISCLOSURE!!!



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This VERY SONG is the VERY REASON that I KEEP HOPING that LOVE WILL ONE DAY...'MAYBE'...FIND ME...as 'SHE'...finds...ME!       After I was...

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Summer market is crowded,
I shall not be found missing.
Nothing like withered leaves
Or disappearing winter birds
But angels in swimming trunks
Pressing men to praise the posh.

In the shinning summer sun,
I shall ignite my motorised Ferrari bike, 
Take a cruising ride to the countryside;
Visiting the burgs , the...

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37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets...

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Venice, Italy, is a crazy shamozzle of new and old 
Where junk, graffiti, decay, stunning beauty, 
     history and culture poverty and opulence, all reside side by side, bobbing. 
Water dominates the landscape, canals and waterways replace all the roads
Everything is...

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Wind is swinging boat, it’s frail
on a shoulder of a wave,
Stranger’s bored in it, thoughts sail
full of laziness, they save
idleness, he wants no sailing
And he doesn’t want his oar,
Cares are hard and he is blaming
Scary sea, it’s cold, what for
He’s in boat? He goes out...

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Two, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas,
Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees, 
Francesco’s outboard boat heads out to Caribbean’s deeper blue.

Where sun burns softer gringo skin, but canopy saves that paining hue 
from deceiving rays bounced bright...

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so there I was 
fishin just because
working I told her I be

she didn't know my where abouts
or me in's and me outs
bet her I'm home by 2 or 3

trolling a long
scratchin my ding dong
happy as could be

so there I was
don't know why it do's what...

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To those who have done prep

Prep up for break, hanging in morning dew
Made fast with sailing twine, awaiting dawn
Brass belaying pin holding halyard to
I glimpse across harbor, Third Fleet’s mowed lawn

My eyes upon OTC, I await
One whistle, the yellow and green closed up
As I snap...

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The Slight Light of the Moon
David J Walker

Everyone is in 
Everyone is done
Everyone 
under the sun 
is in the same boat

It’s a big boat
It’s a tugboat
It’s a lifeboat 
That won’t float  
On Solipsism’s alone 

It’s an 
Oceanliner the color of 
October with a canoe...

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Dangerous Encounter 
It was a June Saturday after dinner I walked along the docks 
and noticed a man I knew putting crates of beer on his boat that 
had an outboard motor. He lived on the other side of the bay and 
invited me to...

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Heah buddy, can you spare
a rhyme, a dime, the time
to care (how rare) if truth
be known or to tell a lie
about washing ton's cherry
cut down into sticks to build
a house on the prairie
where Georgie kisses all the girls
who never just say no.

Heah buddy, lets go...

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