Best Torpedoed Poems

"Greater love has no man than this, 
that a man lay down his life for his friends."*

The four men were more than friends,
they were brothers. 
Brothers of different beliefs, 
but of the same Father.

Each took their Father's commands
literally, even unto death.
They embraced an icy, watery...

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This is the fleet commander.  I address all of you.
To this mighty ship, you have been a faithful crew.
Your performance the other day was much better than good.
We sank the strongest British ship, the HMS Hood.
May I assure you there will be no cause...

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(chance operations)


Beethoven’s orchestra torpedoed
Restoring life to the platform
Desire’s found, as the quiet storm raged on
Deliciously clinging to the heartbeats
Of every symphonic note
There was a true rhapsody
As, Beethoven’s first symphony played on...

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Popular Mozart melodies are playing on a low loop.
Five people tense as a clinic nurse
calls us in or leaves us hanging.

I know the drill,
she’ll lead me reluctantly to the scales,
the usual sighs of ritual humiliation;
“Are you 6 foot” she inquires
looking at the chart skeptically.
I don’t...

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(when living nightmare pierced real time
thus engendering the following rhyme)

adrenaline powered stealth bomb blast 
with the noggin of this, ah... ur... bane chap, 
     which debilitating anxiety doth outlast
means to cope (thunder and dumb struck) 
     with...

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Inwards
Admiral Nukhimov lies in the usual position, on her side, on the seabed with sixty four bodies still aboard. Hit by a freighter Pyotr Vasev making a disaster. Two divers died while retrieving bodies from the wreck. 

Eighteen people standing upright behind a glass screen,...

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Writer's cramp here I come...
(to the rescue and save the day
and hoop fully a damsel in distress!)

Impending thunderstorm
"FAKE" MAGA (nah) if fuss sent)
thwarted, torpedoed - dag nabbit, and trumped
assigned, mandated, and self selected
online poetic writing session.

Yours truly forced to re-learn (ASAP)
at greased lightning speed
archaic pre-internet...

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pip-squeak in the air
   rams a fleeing big black crow
         — torpedoed and stunned

5/22/2018...

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New York 
Dark outside all I see is a figure, which is bald and wears glasses.
I remember a time when there was a war and we had to use black 
curtains so the enemy flying over the town could not see it, even
though it was...

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The ship of dreams
I have never been to Sylhet, Bangladesh it doesn’t matter
it was in May, the rain was relentless, and the last Bengal tigers 
had drowned in a flood plain and a famous man had been 
buried in a led coffin in the Bay...

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FALL    IN    THE    SNOW

Navigating deserted street , timorously,
Seems  ok underfoot, so branch out a little.
No ice, just hard-packed snow.
Sidewalk  looks  white, innocent, safe.

Left foot treachery,   collapse to port side
Like a tree...

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Popular Mozart melodies are playing on a low loop.
Five people tense as a clinic nurse
calls us in or leaves us hanging.

I know the drill,
she’ll lead me reluctantly to the scales,
the usual sighs of ritual humiliation;
“Are you 6 foot” she inquires
looking at the chart skeptically.
I don’t...

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The sea ghosts

The first time I went to sea as a mess-boy, it was on an old ship.
It took two days to find my seaman's legs and take a look at my surrounding.
The crew didn´t look real like they were shadows caught up in a...

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One wanted my company but they vetoed,
I had happened to overhear.
My anger never torpedoed,
but nulled to make way for sorrow.
I realized it was not them that were hollow–
But it was I that caused distress,
I could not sojourn there nor here,
and everyone hesitated, failing to confess....

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