Mom Boat Poems

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The sun is up, and I'm up. Both the sun and I are up, we're up, we're up
Off with my sleeping clothes, off it goes,...

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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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The Sun was drowsing quietly,
Once upon a century, 
Mister Ocean calm but afraid, 
She was far but had a selected destiny. 

The ship was named...

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Blow down the little baby like a paper boat.
Downstream where the dead fish flow.
Blood of life, blood of stones thrown.
Arrow, bow, find the doe while...

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Waves rocked the yellow boat.
No other boats docked out in the lake;
 the yellow boat appeared lonely.
The water clapped against the boat, as it swayed...

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a terza rima 

The setting?  Bean Town, known for allegory, 
has city gardens guarded close by lawmen.
Make Way for Ducklings, long a famous story.

Adjacent...

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POET-ANJALI DENANDI,MOM
Lovely-boat
………………….
My boat;
Float and float…………..
From my throat,
I create and create……………..
Just before sun-set;
The birds return in their nests,
For taking rest;
I am on my lovely-boat; 
And see...

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people get mad at me when i say good times
and then i start getting pelted by dimes
and then i get arrested for crimes 
and i...

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It's already hard enough to say anything accurately
without further obfuscating and camouflaging the soul.
The faces in the funeral pews are impassive, impatient
and the dead woman...

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He was nuttier than a fruitcake, 
He ate dry fruits, and candied fruits.
Some thought he was a screwball.
But from the likes of things.
He was very...

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(Dedicated to Folake)

Your eyes, woman
are like twilight rainbow
amorously bearing aloft passions of mine
toward androcytic ecstacy.
They tell of endless lights.

Night skies clarion the warmth of you
keep...

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Seeking a better life and with chance at hand, our new life awaits
Wife hires on as servant, daughter and I stowaway as it departs
Our life's...

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I woke up this morning and I took my breath,
prayed to Allah that I took that step.
Making it's hard but I cooked what's left
and saved...

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