My Boatman
The Lord is my boatman
He’ll take me home
In the turbulent sea I am sailing safe with Him
I have full faith in Him
He protects the boat
In surging storm I don’t lose hope
He knows the course
He is an expert navigator in rough weather conditions
He always takes care
Keeps the boat afloat
He knows precisely well for me
How long
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Categories:
boatman, analogy, god, journey,
Form: Free verse
To Pay the Boatman
Why did you slide a coin in his
pocket? She asked with
a little smile.
To pay the Boatman, my
Grandma said, you’ll
understand in a while.
He lay there in his Sunday best
a smile on his face
no tear, no worry anymore
he’s in a better place.
Slowly he approached the shore
and waited in the line,
old and young, rich and poor,
some
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Categories:
boatman, analogy, boat, death,
Form: Rhyme
A Boatman Recalls and Repents
An old thatched boat
full of goods and secrets
sails down memory lane.
Rice boils on a stained
stove again. The same
kerosene lamp flickers
in the salty breeze. His
eyes row along the wet
feminine nudity. Often
he shatters a widow’s
solitude on the Kanoli
Bank. He used to steal
the tender coconuts...
The moist events, he
recalls and repents.
Trucks
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Categories:
boatman, life,
Form: Free verse
Boatman Hasn'T Come
Twilight descends slow
On burnt sun sinking so sad
Boatman hasn’t come.
November 18, 2017.
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Categories:
boatman, boat, sunset,
Form: Haiku
Harry Boatman 1879-1916
Harry Boatman
1879-1916
It is true my friends.
A man thinks of many things
While on his deathbed.
A man remembers and reflects and responds.
He responds, as with a child, to
The insistent pleadings and proddings of the wall clock,
Responds and obeys, as with a woman expecting, to
The cosmic commands of the moody evening tides.
The incredible colossal circling globe, of
Spasm and
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Categories:
boatman, death, jesus,
Form: Epitaph
Brenda's Beguiling Boatman
Beautiful Brenda was bewitched by a man she created in her novel,
Blissfully absorbed in her imagination with this man she marveled.
Boats and the sea were his lifelong passions.
Besotted with the ocean, it sparked supreme satisfaction.
Beguiled with this boater, Dan, the author had imagined,
Brenda futilely fantasized about this blue-eyed man with abandon.
By chance, she was invited
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Categories:
boatman, boat, ocean, romance, sea,
Form: Alliteration
Brenda Loved Brennan the Boatman
Brenda penned a story about Brennan the boatswain in Bermuda
Who had bought a Bavaria 43 barque for a sailing adventure.
The story began with the ballad of Brennan:
'Come sail with me, on see-saw sea
Becapped, bedecked, emblazoned blithely, a blast!
Your love becalmed in my arms embrace.
All aboard, all in, with my deck I beckon.'
As the rollicking tale
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Categories:
boatman, sad love, sea,
Form: Alliteration
The Boatman
Charon the boatman. what a ghastly old soul
Eternal death for the man with no toll
No Garden of Eden on the other side
Climb in the boat and ride out the tide
He took you across the river Styx
For some it gave eternal bliss
Those who came without a fare
Lost their souls and forever stared
With two pence placed on
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Categories:
boatman, philosophy,
Form: Epic
Boatman
There is a misty hanging over the lake
A line of pollen colorless in the smoke lapping the bank
With things those outlined unreachable
against the far far shore
Needle outlines pines roof of
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Categories:
boatman, death, fantasy, imaginationmusic, music,
Form: I do not know?