Best Saragossa Poems

Saragossa Sonnet  
There is a place in the mid-Atlantic an island made of sea tare 
and the mist never lifts sea and storm avoid...

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Saragossa Sonnet  
There is a place in the mid-Atlantic an island made of sea tare 
and the mist never lifts sea and storm avoid...

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The Temptation 

The girls in the bar that had floors made of
Stranded schooners timber came and sat by us
Many sailors had drowned here
On their way...

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Sea life Remembered 
Tropical night with extras added on like moon and stars.
I stood by the railing dreaming as the ship tilled its way
towards Jamaica,...

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The absolute Faith 

It is so long ago now I might have had a hallucination
I had a day off at my work as a cook...

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“A La Larissa” perfume has appeared!
The fragrance of it is great and neared.
It’s just for your elegance and intelligence.
It’s not for the masses!
It’s for the...

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A Sea Dirge

I once saw, where the horizon ends, 
a ship ploughed the sky. 
White tears on pale blue, 
I saw the waiting darkness; 
I...

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An Echo from the Sea
 This old ship rode the Atlantic swells like 
a swan in a pond and her crew were dead,
perhaps not at...

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To love the self 
My neighbour has four small dogs in the night if they hear 
a cat they bark to protect their owner warning...

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As seen in the mirror 

Oh, I’m not done yet, when young I was dense because I could 
not see further than the now, old...

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When old sailors go 

A seaman sees death as an ocean of tranquillity
 no storm will upset his raft he can safely sleep
Through the ages...

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An inert tarn


In the pond of pleasant memories, a duckling paddled
like an unwanted thought of a spring wedding in Brussel.
Flat stones skipped on the pond...

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Horizons 

I sit on the verandah look at the sea no ships in today
open view until the horizon after that, on the other side
there are...

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The Mighty Fall

I fell through the night under me I could see white crested waves
of the sea and there was little I could do to...

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Enticement

The girl in the bar that had floors made of stranded schooners
came and sat by us
Many sailors had drowned in her eyes.
On the way to...

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