Wife Boat Poems

this may grab your goat
frantically fell from a boat
being in Shallotte

in Shallotte climbed an oak
branch that I know had been broke
slipping in some yolk

my wife...

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we were in Shallotte
far away which is remote
when we bought a boat

we rode down a stream
which did appear in a dream
was rare so would seem

house...

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She's deeply asleep, 
I'm awake, 
As if something is at stake, 
It’s the hands of the night. 

The night calls me from my slumber, 
There's...

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Old Barnacle Bob just bought a boat

The barnacled boat just didn't float

His wife preferred he bought her a coat

I'm leaving you Bob was all she...

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I love spending nights on the lake.
Once the oven-like sun disappears,
things get suddenly quiet, except for
the occasional hoot of an owl, crickets, frogs
and the soft...

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Sturgeon Moon
So soon
Summer slips through our fingers
Our own version of Michigan underwater beasts
Ogling the luminous bellies of boats swimming down Clam River

Dockside a roar with...

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No one believed you,                     ...

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I went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of...

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

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Jolly Bill had many old tall boats,                                     ...

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Fisherman's Luck 

The rocks brushed by the waves, 
caressed and embraced by the ocean, 
slowly wearing down the land, 
to be carried away in pieces
back...

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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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they supped on Bjurholm
drank Kumis
dined on haggis
and rubbed down
with sassafras oil

some made dessert from ackee fruit
and had puffer fish and shark fin soup
what word of...

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