Boatmen Poems - Poems about Boatmen

First Encounter

...Fierce winds blow across the Atlantic tide,
Colder she gets the rougher she'll ride,
In matt'r minutes a chill to the bone,
Few dare sail her northern zone,
Far north the whaling be done,
Colder...

Blissful Water

...Written: July 04, 2023
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A respected river, your holiness sublime.
Purifies within if we let your essence seep.
From the...

Lady of the Nile

...Beauteous lass Thy wounds are bleeding! 
Crowning crowning where thou go on? 
Mothers weep and babies  feeding
Crowds on crowds and trumpet blow on! 
Wearest thou thy wedding garments
Then which...

A Night In Paris

...spires stretch heavenward in a twilight sky
crimson hues and nighttime blues do battle
as people lope lazily over a dusky bridge
like cattle with cameras;
snapping the domed limestone giant

be...

Beneath Them Steady Waters Still Are Flowing

...During colder winters the river freezes over
A vast sheet of ice spreading shore to shore
While the traffic awaits March’s spring thaw,
Old boatmen share traditional waterway lore
And skaters...

It Comes Without Trumpets

...It Comes Without Trumpets

No fanfare, no golden light that we know of.
It comes without a pale horse.

Sometimes silent during the night,
perhaps peaceful but perhaps not.
No one knows the dr...

Ode To Holy Ganga- Constanza

...Oh Ganga! river so revered
your holiness purifies deep
if thy essence we let in seep.

From lord Shiva's hair you appeared
down the mighty Himalayas
quenching the thirsty souls pious.

Yamuna...

Big Rocks

...On Jingxi River boatmen are very careful with big rocks found,
No news about boat-capsizing is heard all the year round. 
But in smooth rivers where there are no dangerous rocks,
Victims are often...

Driftwood On the Styx

...Three misfits sought mischief along serenity shore
when a boatman slashed through the bluing mist
with driftwood oars honed by a river called Styx.

They were wild and naive and looked quite agha...

A Haiku Anthology - Theme Summertime

...wildflower meadow
as tall as a muntjac
cuckoo cuckooing
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farmers haymaking
grasshoppers stridulating
don't touch a stinkbug
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wood admiral glides
honeysuckle its host plant
humid t...

Harvey

...Harvey

I sit in my chair

Lovely music playing;

Afternoon sun shining;

Birds filling up to roost.

I look out my sliding doors;

The ferns are lush.

I hear a baby cry,

There is a...

Danny the Dolphin

...Danny the dolphin loved his next of kin,
swimming in pods out in the big ocean,
sensing danger he'd be the first to respond,
helping humans to safety creating a special bond,

Noticing that huma...

The Reminiscence

...The green village, the colored city, the ever familiar locality
Each path, tree, house, turn, each native I have left behind
But creepers, hedges have entangled with my leg and hand
The green crop...

Befuddled Brenda

...Ol’ brazen Brenda, battlin’ biography,
Banters bewildered brave boatmen at sea,
Brushstrokes besieging her beleaguered brain,
Broadsided by fiction now baking insane;

Balanced betwe...

Emerald Waves

...Emerald Waves





                                                 emerald tides rise
                                     boatmen hold breath while tunnelled
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