Sorrow Boat Poems

Taken by the breath of thee
Find it hard to breath
Tears begin to flow
All around only hurt
Intensify the pain
Runs wild and free
No calming flow
Rocked to the...

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CRACKED


                     Life unkind, cracked in...

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Cristobal, so pink in your blue suit
Limbs flailing, condemned
You will grow so quick to learn
Vicarious loss and sorrow 

The light is now in the ground
We...

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...The two men confirmed Fred went for his gun,
and the captain just let the whole thing be,
Lyle got up and walked out to the deck,
in...

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Lyle Cosgrove had worked the Silver Queen
for two years now, ever since he had left
family drama back in Ohio,
he had simply left his home and...

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The boat of joy

and that of sorrow

over 

the tempestuous seas of tears

endlessly navigate!*  






© Demetrios Trifiatis
     11 June 2020


 *Either...

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Stabs of the setting sun 
Spasm of scarlet sorrow bleeds my horizon
Transcending the tides of strife 
Tinged twilight starts the stellar symphony
With the crescendo of...

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The horizon is sleek :
       No sails coming
       No boat slips
>  ...

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I recall the day, now passed with sorrow
Of a crossing that was calm, and thankfully mellow
Lounging on deck my mind drifted free
As I journeyed across...

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put in paper and let it sail into the ocean and open sea
see how your troubles drift free feel your emotions entangling
drowning in sorrow will...

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Oars part them gently ...


Frozen dead in life jackets,


Cold, bleak irony....

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Yellow-green May
Loving blue jay
Land in love with water at the bay
Heartbeats in the sway
You are so handsome

Green-blue sea
Splashes against you and me
Bubbles colored in glee
Offer...

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The rivers run with tears
As oceans bear the rain
Sailors sail through fears
With no promise of terrain

Only to dwell and reach this land
That moans with sorrow...

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Solitary on my raft
Drifting peacefully away from the anguish towards sanctuary

The land becomes distant and harder to see.
Hurt subsides gradually and security softens my body...

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A thousand tumbles takes a bottle in the sea-
a thousand tumbles and whirls and swoops.
A million grains of sand takes that bottle in the sea,
to...

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