Place By the Sea
...I once had a special place by the sea;
A quiet get away where I loved to be;
My favorite place for God and me.
A solemn place, most Devine
And serene, free of people for a season.
The only ...
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Categories:
cargo ships, christian, water, world war
Form: Free verse
Looking Over Your City, Father
...Looking here over at my window
At the 20th floor, Father
I see the beauty of the city
Those high scrapers standing
At the side are like mountain
Covered with concrete and glass
In front of me i...
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Categories:
cargo ships, appreciation, beauty, city, prayer,
Form: Free verse
The Value of Books
...The value of books
Late afternoon, the sun has left the terrace and is in the back throwing up dust before reluctantly slinking west and sinking
into the sea beyond the seas.
The townscape is...
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Categories:
cargo ships, anti bullying, best friend,
Form: Blitz
The Sun Rays
...The sun is peeping out the sky to greet the rainclouds goodbye, the rainbows are sweating in the sweltering heat and the cargo ships are loaded and ready for the next fleet, tension is raising high a...
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Categories:
cargo ships, abuse, break up, cinderella,
Form: Free verse
Devils Sea
...Mysteries into mysterious
The thought just makes one curious
History having accounts within its own log
The wonders through the creation of the seas
1871 was a year when cargo ships would sail th...
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Categories:
cargo ships, adventure, anger, boat, books,
Form: Free verse
Farmers
...My father and his father were Farmers. It wasn't told to me,
but I suspect that my Great Grandfather was also a Farmer.
My wife's father was also a hard-working and successful Farmer.
However, in ...
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Categories:
cargo ships, pain, prayer,
Form: Verse
Quiet
...I heard the sea gulls as the sea roared.
A great view of the Golden Gate Bridge,
as I watched the ships flow through the Gate.
After work, on early nights, I had a favorite spot.
Like the fog hor...
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Categories:
cargo ships, christian, city, silence,
Form: Personification
My Boat
...My boat
A small boat moving through choppy water.
Prompt from "Grief" by Raymond Carver
Some sail in yachts
Some relax on cruise ships
Some transport fruit on cargo ships
Som...
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Categories:
cargo ships, boat, sea,
Form: Free verse
Bittersweet Journey
...Nine years my leave had spanned
travelling to my island in the sun.
A native son returning his native land
where the journey had all begun
And I by the grace of God s...
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Categories:
cargo ships, journey, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Ocean of Dreams
...The ocean of dreams
The old man was still in his bed; someone said, is he dead?
No, not yet he says I dream of seagulls flying over the ocean.
Once I was a dolphin, my sons and daughters live...
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Categories:
cargo ships, adventure, angel, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse
At Waikiki
...At Waikiki
I love to catch much of an ocean breeze under the palm trees
To greet ‘Aloha’ to the rising sun on eas...
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Categories:
cargo ships, beach, city, romantic, travel,
Form: Free verse
After a Storm
...After a storm
There was a storm in the bay,
blue waves crashing ashore
and flooded the coastal road-
Today the bay is calm but look
at sea, it is grey anger
doesn’t becomes it.
The Haar...
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Categories:
cargo ships, absence, africa, allusion, anger,
Form: Blank verse
The Great Escape
...The Great Escape
Perched on a rooftop terrace in glorious sunshine he watches ahead
Floats on his sky looks inwards and ponders the magic path unravel
~ A J...
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Categories:
cargo ships, faith, fate, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse
In Flagrante Delicto
...[starboard port]
the ocean—an onyx plate predawn—
somnambulant ships preen with a swag of
warning lights
massive hulls: cargo ships, flotillas, tankers,
passenger liners loll; red lights bus...
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Categories:
cargo ships, love,
Form: Free verse
Croquet On the Lawn At Three Pm
...1 2 1 2 in a tutu playing croquet at three pm
Abracadabra is a giant kilo of horse manure thrown at the head with a boom. But a boom is neither a boomerang nor a pickling gate in a jar of curdled ...
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Categories:
cargo ships, addiction, america, baseball, basketball,
Form: I do not know?
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