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Premium Member The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide by fifteen miles deep
(Although flat as a skating rink)
Following the...

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Categories: supertankers, education, environment, history, technology,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member La Tour Des Baleines
La Tour Des Baleines

In Misses Halliday’s community,
A lighthouse steadily illuminates
That coastal location.  Containerships
Can safely navigate.  Supertankers
Can avoid incidents.  Superliners
Can protect passengers unfailingly.
This noble edifice, designated,
(From francais translated): “Tower-Of-Whales”.

Mark Halliday
Contest: Lighthouse
19 September 2014...

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Categories: supertankers, boat, imagery, international, ocean,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things