Rose Boat Poems

the end of the line

Once upon a time, Norway was a shipping nation
thousand of people employed in this endeavor
because she was a low-paid country and...

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Deep emotions flow under your veins
Sailing towards serenity
Taking a breath, gazing at
First sunbeams feeling my 
Soul wrap yours, with the 
Warmth and love of 
An...

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All words and wonder, wobbling copper green
Foam and guano floating 
In the sea cave’s lee
A flock of gannets raucous on a rocky pile
And the ever-growing...

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Roger’s waist was the linchpin 
when we launched “The Rose”
off Garrison’s Cove on Bailey Island.

He let out the rope around his belt
as she slid off...

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We knaves had orders both explicit and dumb:
Scare the blazes out of a management bum.
Thunderstorm weather rocked wide Prince William Sound,
Feisty gales pouring rain all...

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Row your boat,
Dreamy float,
Row gently,
Merrily.
Crystal stream,
Summer's sheen.
Shore speckled,
Rose petals!
Drift through blue,
Sky's with you.
Dark green noon,
Bower tune.
Row, row, row,
Geese follow.
Go gently,
Blue daisies!
At bronzed stream,
River queen.
Soft pink...

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She sat on a small window bench 
Her head resting on her hand
Looking out into the dark glooming
As the silvery moon rose to shine 
On...

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Once upon a time
in a far away land
there lived a sailor
who fell in love with a man.

After years of traveling
wondering the sea
she found a place...

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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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The number nine, when said, is a bright red!
Such a ruby gleam! As pleasant 

as a red rose that holds the morning's
raindrops that will then...

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Night lifts the ebon shroud onto the curved silk of sky, 
the dazzling drizzle of spectrum at dawn has begun, 
paints pearls on meadow where...

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In silence with a heavy heart, he ambles by the water's edge, lost in thought in the cool briny breeze. His footprints follow and shadow...

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Floating on the waters of love
My heart writhes in pain
This love letter I send thereof
A boat in the rain

Drifting on the waters of love
Hope it...

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in the green, green garden,
under the blue, blue sky,
did you throw me a rose
on the sly?

on the slow slow river,
in the wooden log boat,
did you...

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A canal, far away,
was built many years ago 
for the ships' passage

between two oceans. 
A river, near me, slowly 
flows, floats the barges.

And, years ago,...

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