Father Boat Poems

who had a normal name

Now that October glides into November, we sleep later
till nine, and we do not use the living room heater, sit in...

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Pop was a devoted fly-fisherman who woke in the quiet predawn hours and stumbled, blurry-eyed out of the house with his loaded thermos in his...

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"I beg You, show me Your glory," Moses said
but God snuck past, back-turned, revealing not His glorious head
Moses didn't know they had to wait for...

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No one believed you,                     ...

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A captain will navigate his ship
keeping it safe for his men.
A pilot will navigate his plane
for his passengers.
Like the ship's captain and the airline pilot,
we...

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Ti was impatient to get started
His grandfather ate his breakfast too slowly
You have all day, his grandmother said. Relax.
Ti was not the relaxed type, he...

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What do you see from dot to dot,                 ...

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Jolly Bill had many old tall boats,                                     ...

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The old Luzzu lies on a slipway beneath the sun’s strong rays
           In one of...

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The silver bird took us off,                   ...

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I set off in a big blue boat

I wanted to see the world afloat

today I talked to a whale

I drank some cold ale

I tried but...

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Honey’s makeshift spit. Wouldn’t pay a dime for a harlot. No need to count up a tally when in hindsight it’s a waver.

‘’Use in discretion.’’...

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Quote By Poet  "The Power Of The Sea and Thee" 



When I was little and we went to the beach,          ...

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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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I look and what do I see                                     ...

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