Best Steamboat Poems

"Steamboat is a-comin' 'round the bend!"
My! Oh my! The wonders it might portend,
As it stopped by sleepy towns along the Missisip',
Dodgin' stumps and wayward rafts on its monthly New Awlins trip!

Its arrival was heralded by the town drunk who had nothin' else to do,
And the...

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In this land by a lake
mountains and trees
sound of birds
distant voices at play
atop a rock
typing this
for you and for me;
God is loving.
Teaching love through
the fives senses He
adorned us with
such quiet angels
as we saw and toss,
climbing mountains
paddling towards islands
and getting lost in His arms.
Such gentle, bold...

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in dogmatic stillness, since uncle died
he's been traversing the phantom dimensions
from endless skyscrapers to artic edges
through hailstorms of indignation
but then he met the pondering moor king
lost in abstractions of his cane castle
and blocked his everlasting glance for good
it was then, when mist(er)y girl showed up
eerie...

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Whatever you do don’t make Tom mad
He is the meanest at the convention a real cad
I had been to Steamboat conventions lots before
Which one is he? I asked my sister De La More.

The one with the club foot, he is a bad ass cat.
I stared...

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