Best Ports Poems

(Duo rhyme in Honor of Mary Ports)

Butterflies & Moonbeams 

Of things that inspire I will write 
Whether things of day or by night 
    Butterflies and silver moonbeams 
    Upon the quiet water gleams 
    Azure...

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Imagine
each morning
when we wake up
we remember where we came from.

This is never exactly the same place
in our therapeutic imagination
for the same reasons
we can never actually go home again
to that original warm wet womb 
from where we first emerged.

One morning
I come from,
and hope to return to,
water.

The...

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Did you find that port
where the sea greets the land
with pearls and sparkling fishes?

Was the voyage you took to get here
full of storms or near misses?

In the autumn woods were there truffles
or sprained ankles?

Does your soul roam
though you stay at home?

When your ship arrived
did you...

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Safe place for the meaning — in couplets of rhyme
 the words taking shelter in moments sublime

Their message unfurling — new harbor in sight 
 the tempest becalming in lines of delight


(Dreamsleep: April, 2025) 
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