Sea Burlesque Poems

[Continued from previous episode.]

…on my third Cold War deployment
Patrolling the South China Sea,
Having many good reasons to be there,
Though no one’d explained them to me.

The...

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Death from above 1953

My uncle
Was seaman
Died in Marseilles
A pig on a balcony
Fell on him.
Mother said
He died at sea
When a mine
Struck his ship.
A likely explanation
That served
His...

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is everything 


The petrol prices in Portugal are now so high
the highest European for me to drive from Cascais to Algarve
makes me six hours, (before...

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Hide and seek I can't no more,
Every time they tried to hide,
Feelings revealed,
Secretes of love explode,
Is like a bomb of love inside my heart,
Explode like...

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Diving into the whorled
undercurrent of your passion,
a sizzling madness
greedily devours my aching need --
Caught in the under- toe 
of your magnetic current, 
my trembling body...

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Graves for mariners,
leaning towards the sea,
a lot lop-sided
as if seasick

Gravely now,
we went towards the graves,
the sea churning,
then marinating green

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6/22/2015

Contest  -  Any Old Poem...

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From “The Last Land”


The years were fresh but the sea
Was filled with stomach cramps, and burning tips
	Against a psychic belly
The vibration of fishes
As they were...

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Anchor down, wind at ease all the sailors out to please, one by one they step off deck and into the arms of who knows...

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I wanna love you like a Sea Urchin.
-Not just any other shellfish.
Baby, can't you see it's urgent?
we're strapped for time, so don't be selfish.

I wanna...

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The Scots, by God,
They drove them out,
With a single Yorkie
At their heels a' yappin'
The Hobyahs tried to fly
Their arms they were a flappin'

Some managed to...

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A tom bell version of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam";
(In hopes of enticing our beloved Ruby Metzger back to Soup)

Omar K. always
had his way...

Multi-millions
from Arab...

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Scarcely the Dropper-- a roach antennae Felt,

Some Maudling exterminator of nakedly inhuman hands.

Boiled renunciation falling sick With life itself,

For Libido has and Always Will Be…....

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Penn's Aunts, patch-eyed women
Cutlass carried, pistol too
You mess with Sean,
They mess with you
Give his movie a bad review,
You'll walk the plank,
That's what they'll do....

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The Cruller Sagas Part 2- The Insipid Rise of the Cruller Wars

As it came to pass, after the Spanish exhibition of the inherent strategic defensive
possibilities...

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The Little Known History of the Cruller And It's Impact On Naval Warfare"

No mere pastry, the humble cruller...
As you will soon see...
But a remarkable item,
Most...

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