Farewell Boat Poems

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Shored-up wooden boats standing in the mud, braced by boards to stand erect,
   
We vigilant men past sixty, retain our dignity, and...

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The last breathe
The last death
The last phone call
The last fall
The last funeral
The last burial
The last roll
The last poll
The last smile
The last style
The last flight
The last...

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A last goodbye to you on the deck...
Winds growling the misfortune.... 

RMS titanic twisted in the blisters...
Let the coffin in glister... 

Recalling our ancestors' flute...
Off...

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STUCK IN TIME

I’m stuck in time, all my ships have sailed
The sea is rising, as the cold winds wailed
If only my hands were not held...

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We left our abode 
       in old Cowfair
  haggled a price 
for an old shire mare

Onto the 
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Una donna rattristita e velata dal pianto,
guarda verso un mare
piu' squallido di questo invernile mattino: 
rimpiangendo i pensieri dolci
cullati dalla nostalgia di ieri
che non sara'...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Oars part them gently ...


Frozen dead in life jackets,


Cold, bleak irony....

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The second house this year to go under in Atlantic City.
This is a scenario that does not look too pretty.
A once venerable establishment will soon...

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You walked away
With a laugh and a wave
Like nothing was happening

Complaining about the lack of beer
With the promise of a call.

But, I knew.

I knew there...

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Come and lay to see the lanterns on the ships,
And listen the murmuring of the water flow,
When the river moves slowly among reeds,
not far from...

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A full moon night
to my delight
what is so wrong
with doing what's right
nothing is right
after so long
no use in complaining
time to move on

The Dream Water one...

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Farewell, then, AUKN boss,
The next this year makes three.
By the time they find a substitute,
Slovenes will be at sea.

He tried to cover his behind;
AUKN boss...

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