Best Suez Canal Poems


The Rhyming

The cost of living collided to the sky and plus claustrophobia minus class of cloud equal to clerk count to countries and Kiribati. I live to love the lovable and to live with laughable to laudable and laundry plus yard to the Yankees family. I stop to think and thank the technology. 
Life is too short to be conditioned class of clauses to calm the camouflage to candle plus the Suez Canal to clandestine. It clears the clan to bookworms. I touch the logo to the bank of Bangkok. 
Run in the rain so that you train by the grains to green line and desktop to dockyard plus document to illegal and illegitimate actions. He chews gum to China. He rests by the tree to try to be enough to him. Honest earn the animation to amateur. 
Line to lemonade, let me know if you care to call to Kalahari desert and condemn conquerors that you control to contact clergy to collect college degree to dig hole to hold up to Hollywood star. 
You sound happy to hatred and rudeness to rodent to the duke of Sierra Leone. Tornado torments my thought to help technicians with strategy temple of temptation. The cannabis to bunch of drugs addicts to grow corn by the corner of the road.
 My roundabout rings bell to eliminate all form of bellicose. I rush to Lisa Russell to witness glory and gun down the gamblers. We scout to stallion to start stalwart to solidification. I move to smell the night air with an apple on my right hand pen on the left to talk to the night. I feel covered in silhouette.

Blood Channel

Suez Canal-
The bypass performed,
On the chests of the Egyptians,
Bleeding for miles carrying to sea,
Blue sea,before blood mix,
Red Sea after both had sex!

Premium Member Blockage of the Suez Canal

More than fifty ships go through the Suez Canal on any day.
However, a very large freighter has blocked the passageway.
The ship called the "Ever Given" comes from a company in Taiwan.
Unsuccessful efforts to move the vessel have been going on.
Tugboats and personnel are trying to get the big ship free.
Meanwhile, hundreds of other craft have been stalled on the sea.
This incident is having a negative impact on the world economy.

From a story found in the Los Angeles Times.


Premium Member Journey To Africa As Seen By An Eight Year Old

My journey through life has seen so much
far have I traveled and much I have done
seen so many things that most others never do
the rock of Gibraltar, with teems of scary monkeys
traveling out we sailed through the Suez canal 
wondrous mysteries that delighted an eight year old
camels striding along, enormous crocs floating by
the land so close you want to touch it and run on it 
Zanzibar our next port of call, ram shackled boats galore
the heady scents of spices abounds teasing the nostrils
the vivid different colors everywhere flood my senses
on to our destination Dar-es-Salaam harbor most picturesque
a miss mash of ships some luxury most tramp ships or boats
sails of all colors, dark people unloading trunks from the holds 
this was a time taken out of time, a way of life quite relaxed
just think of the things ahead,  the adventures that awaited me

written 08/08/2013

contest    Your Journey

in 1958 the Suez canal was open later it got blocked by sunk ships

Ships of Poverty

Ships of Poverty 

Going through the Suez Canal in the fifties was
fraught every porthole and doors had to be 
locked or we were robbed. 

The ship swarmed with carpet sellers, thieves
and people selling dubious alcohol and 
*********** that even looked old fashioned 
and they were not shy touching up a young 
sailor.  And for us who had no education we
thought this was Egypt a country of robbers
and shameless perverts.  

The Red Sea, Persian Gulf another nightmare
on ships that had no air condition. We slept
on deck to catch the cooling morning breeze.
Our suffering made ship owners very rich.

Little Jack

Little Jack sits in a class-room
With tears in his little eyes.
He’d like to leave the room soon,
But he still sits there and cries.

“What happened” – the janitor asks,
“You know, boys shouldn’t cry.
Your teachers gave too many tasks
Or the lessons were too dry?”

Little Jack still sobs and sighs,
He fears to raise his little head.
“My friends and teachers were nice
Oh, I feel so stupid and ashamed!

My geography teacher told me today
To find the Suez Canal on the map,
But the Canal had oddly gone astray
Please, look at the atlas on my lap!”

The janitor sets about leafing through
This colorful, thick, interesting book
“It’s difficult to catch on – it’s true,
But we’ve the Suez Canal here, look!”

Little Jack’s eyes cheered up at once.
He was embarrassed but very content
With the sudden discovery – he cries:
“I looked for it on another continent!”


Premium Member Suez Canal

The Suez Canal is finally free
Precious toilet paper can come to me
This too large cargo ship
In the world a backward flip
Twas as crazy as Boston Harbor's tea

Premium Member They Got the Ship Free

The whole world considers the Suez Canal passe-partout.
Every day, numerous ships routinely pass through.
A big ship called the "Ever Given" blocked the passageway.
For a while, it looked as if this behemoth was there to stay.
The carrier getting stuck there was quite a calamity.
Many other vessels waited in the Mediterranean and Red Sea.
Other European craft desiring to reach ports in Asia
decided to sail the long way around South Africa.
With considerable effort, workers got the Ever Given free.
Merchant vessels again go through the canal to reach the sea.

from a news story found on www.abcnews.com

Noteworthy

The Tower was engineered
by Monsieur Eiffel in Paris
the Wheel was favoured
by Mr. Ferris
Michelangelo in Rome
contributed St. Peter's Basilica dome
Eddystone Lighthouse the first
was constructed by Winstanley and
in St. Paul's Cathedral
Sir Christopher Wren had a hand
the seated Thinker
was carved out by Auguste Rodin
the Taj Mahal (Mumtaz') tomb
commissioned by Shah Jahan
all roads lead to the Colosseum
started by Emperor Vespasian
Borglum executed Mount Rushmore
while Hadrian gave us the Wall
and Ferdinand de Lesseps
secured the Suez Canal
in Byzantine Constantinople
Justinian I built the Hagia Sophia
in Italy Bonanno Pisano began
the (later leaning) Tower of Pisa
the Egyptian Pharaoh Khafre
inspired the Sphinx
but in Scotland who designed
the Musselburgh (golf) Links

Premium Member The Outward Journey

I was seven when we departed for East Africa
and what a journey lay ahead of us. First the
Suez  canal which felt like you could touch the
opposite bank as we sailed through them.
We saw plenty of crocs and native people
hard at work planting and growing crops
dressed in very colourful long robes
Then out into the red sea on our way 
to crossing the meridian date line
Back then in 1958 Neptune board
the ship and a ding dong party
took place welcoming him aboard.
On we went to Zanzibar and The
trade people looked pirates
These natives ware the first dark
skinned people we had met and
many of them bore horrific scars
with ears and limbs missing we
stuck close to our mum while
she reassured us they meant
us no harm we weighed anchor
and set off on the last leg of
our journey and docked in 
Dar-es-Salaam on my eight 
Birthday and to ten years of
pure bliss what a place to
grow up in I often wish 
I was still there

Love On the High Seas

love on the high seas

He was a happy man, had passed the catering exam, and got employment as second cook on a tank ship 
To make happiness perfect his girlfriend had a job on the same ship, keeping the crew's mess hall clean.
How long was Adam in Paradise?
The fall came in the form of a mellifluous-voiced sailor
that had a call of love she could not resist and after work 
she listened to his vocalization until one evening she stayed all night before going back to the cabin she shared with the second cook.
Pale and devastated he came in the galley to make breakfast, but the cook sent him to the store-room to fetch prunes needed to stuff pork loins.
When he came back he held in his right palm a finger 
lacking from the left hand; an accident he said, we knew
he had done this for love.
At the entrance of the Suez Canal, he was sent ashore but there were some delays and he came back onboard in Port Said, because the ship was bound for Antwerp it was cheaper to send the boy home from there
His girlfriend starry-eyed and in love thought she could move in with a sailor who had a beautiful voice, but he 
looked morally upset and refused her advances which
of course, that was not true, he had had his fun and goodbye
The shock of the rejection made him see sense, the second cook and she became lovers again, and she had forgiven him
(he didn't ask for what) and he forgave her.
Happy again, they left the ship in Antwerp, to take the train home, and their adventure ended.
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Failures Colossal

     Nine months after October 6, 1973
     PM Golda Meir of Israel was history
     
     For an intelligence failure colossal
     She became a political fossil…

     Fast forward to October 7, 2023
     When Hamas went on a barbaric spree

     Killing more Jews than any day since the Holocaust ended
     Yet PM ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu’s had his term extended
     
     Where is the leader to end Bibi’s reign
        ~ flush him and his generals down yesterday's drain



     __________________________________________________
     On October 6, 1973, Egyptian pontoons crossed the Suez Canal
     into Israeli-held Sinai, unchecked by Israeli forces, a colossal 
     intelligence failure on the part of Israel's military. Prime Minister 
     (PM) Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan were sacked 
     nine months later---despite being heroes to much of Israel's 
     populace.

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