END TIMES : ONE
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[Poet’s Note : This poem arose out of a play on quote in Bible by Christ : “I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world…This is ho...
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Categories:
bosun, allegory, body, change, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Good Ship Venus Updated
...The Captain had a penny whistle
Which he wore around his neck
And he played it every morning
As the crew danced on the deck.
Sometimes it was a Hornpipe
Sometimes a Palais Glide
As the crew da...
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Categories:
bosun, fantasy, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Dangerous Seas
...On a night much like tonight, and as I stood outside my door,
I heard some sounds that set me tingling,
Much like distant church bells ringing,
A peel for help, was in their clarion,
Ringing r...
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Categories:
bosun, boat, hero, sea,
Form: Rhyme
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
...I wandered lonely as a cloud
Captive to the wind and season
Storms around me raged with fury
I was becalmed without reason
Oh, the wind was fickle some days
And at times it would cease to blo...
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Categories:
bosun, sea,
Form: Rhyme
The Monochrome Echo Chamber
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"The Monochrome Echo Chamber"
How many Roads
to "IT"
Black
as Black & White?
or Unicorns and Rainbows?
Unitarian 1 and only 1
Trinit...
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Categories:
bosun, color, dark, humanity, i
Form: Narrative
Dangerous Seas
...On a night much like tonight, and as I stood outside my door,
I heard some sounds that set me tingling,
Much like distant church bells ringing,
A peel for help, was in their clarion,
Ringing r...
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Categories:
bosun, boat, hero, sea,
Form: Verse
The Eye of the Sea - Part 6
...Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 5
There washed ashore the Devil’s Whore,
Who had three times been paid,
Preserved through Sin and worshippin’
Beelzebub and the grave.
With many a ch...
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Categories:
bosun, adventure, boat, sea, sin,
Form: Epic
The Eye of the Sea - Part 5
...Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 4
Becalmed we were for three days more,
Then the wind began to rise,
At the Captain’s bidding, we set to the rigging,
Eyes firmly upon the prize.
But, ...
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Categories:
bosun, adventure, boat, sea, sin,
Form: Epic
The Eye of the Sea - Part 3
...Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 2
The heaving swell and the waves from hell
Soon swamped our valiant vessel,
With the holds in flood: tattered sails above,
We were in the direst of per...
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Categories:
bosun, adventure, boat, sea, sin,
Form: Epic
The Eye of the Sea - Part 2
...Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 1
The first mate, dour and sparse of words
Claimed few things were his pleasure
And too much beer had brought him here,
That and the rumoured treasure.
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Categories:
bosun, adventure, boat, sea, sin,
Form: Epic
The Seagull
...The seagull
In the winter light she limps through
Frozen snow on the frozen ground
In the deepest night the starlight
Guides her back to the colder town
Baby, baby bunting
Mummy’s gone a ****ing
G...
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Categories:
bosun, allegory, angst, death, life,
Form: Ballad
The Veil of God
...You are not a big bang sort of guy
A singularity of innate law
Exploding into the flaw of fatal me.
You are no Higg's bosun in a collider
With flimsy presence in a husk of time
That needs a dented s...
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Categories:
bosun, faith, me, metaphor, me,
Form: Free verse