Work Boat Poems

There are 2 of us on the boat, trying our best to catch a big rainbow trout,
We tried so many flies but none seemed to...

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Outside my office window, is a field with a canal running through it,
Today people have turned up with diggers and dumper trucks and are digging...

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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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Night came harvesting our sights
into his basket of darkness
at the same time, the once drizzles on our roof
had turned into a rainstorm
putting a period to...

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Daddy, there are new moorings, come see!
There are shiny pontoon chains and cables,
braided ropes and colorful pennants.
The anchors and piles and buoys all new!

He arose...

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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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Fishing Boats On The Beach at Les Saintes - Marie’s-de-la-Mer

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A man attracted to the sound of waves
Ended up to live in the lighthouse
Since then
His job is to hang the things
Floating in the ocean

At this...

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Wind sweeps down the side of the mountain
Crosses tracks and flings itself across the river,
First slapping against the sides of the tugboats
Causing the deckhands to...

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-On September the sixteen, sixteen-hundred and twenty
 The Mayflower set sail for the land of milk and honey
 To the land called Virginia, on a...

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Boat People
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Flapping and strutting, lift my chin high,
Enjoying the sun on my chest and back
Simultaneously? And I ask you, why not?

Wind and I are propelling tiny...

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Cold odd keys to lost cities glisten
as spikes of torment test the frigid
cold fish hands feeding ropes
into the winds biting kiss, 
teeth gnashed against themselves.
Hanging...

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Up and down 
left and right
we row and row 

to seek the treasures
abundant on this land
mutual aid is needed
you cannot succeed on your own
remember, no...

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MV WILHELM GUSTLOFF

This was the worst ship disaster, with the greatest loss of life at sea
A German ship that was overloaded, with over 10.600, war...

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