GIVEN SO FREE
...Darl! Let's go to Manhattan beach,
There we can catch some fish,
Then you'll cook a nice dish,
That we'll eat under the Beech.
This time, if Jennifer goes,
She'll want to eat a lot of Mangoes...
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Categories:
cargoes, adventure, beach, friendship love,
Form: Rhyme
The Aviators' Alphabet
...A is for Airspeed who graduated from Oxford
B is for Bristol with their whispering giants
C is for Convair and Canadair also
B recalls Boulton-Paul who built many Defiants.
D for De Havil...
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Categories:
cargoes, conflict, flying, history, howl,
Form: Abecedarian
Where a Poem Has a Smell
...Along the upper estuary,
boats laid beached on mud
like whales you see
on news clips stranded
helpless in the drained shallows
of a low tide. These boats
too were out of their natural world ...
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Categories:
cargoes, boat, magic, poetry,
Form: Free verse
English Homophones
...Each bon mot melts with
Nuanced, age-old symbolic flavors --
Growing, changing, challenging me.
Language arts baffle me.
Institutional norms perplex me.
Slowly, I listen for that precise sound....
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Categories:
cargoes, appreciation, change, education, motivation,
Form: Acrostic
Not Far and Not Close
...In all facets, its scent blows like the man's coil,
Stop, you are weak!
Now these words make you freak.
From afar, more you walk, here you dwell.
Ravenous? Then swallow grumble and toil.
Top; ab...
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Categories:
cargoes, cheer up, dedication, family,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Sparks
...The cigarette sparks
Though small were non-bargaining
They turned cargoes into cinders
Thick smoke
Circling into the air
Before the fire engine arrived
While some flames still lingered
Among...
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Categories:
cargoes, fire, hurt,
Form: Free verse
The Port
...The sea stops here
But waves splash hard against the jetty
Seagulls lingering
Before flying away
Ships docking at one moment
And departing at another
Shedding cargoes and loading again
Sea bre...
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Categories:
cargoes, love, mother, son,
Form: Free verse
Acorn
...Stay - One more golden morning –
Linger - One more silver night –
Abide tiny child born of my desire
To encourage a new life;
Watch with me the amber moon
Peek through moonbeams rising up so lar...
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Categories:
cargoes, autumn, blessing, change, goodbye,
Form: Personification
A Kiss By the Sea Side
...Behold the cloud of love between
The sea and us the love songs of
The sea birds to our hearing like a
Child beckoning on the mother for
Her meal
We are entangled by the caress of
Blue love by t...
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Categories:
cargoes, appreciation, beautiful, care, celebration,
Form: Lyric
Wind Song
...
“Wind Song”
When the rain came it raised a torrent
music, little by little, raised the levy
light pebbles rolled over one by one
took with t...
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Categories:
cargoes, family, flying, freedom, home,
Form: Free verse
Empty Vessels
...I see more of them every day,
Vessels devoid of any beliefs of their own,
Compassion not listed on their cargo manifesto,
Empathy never having been loaded on these vessels,
That fly flags of con...
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Categories:
cargoes, analogy, atheist, betrayal, change,
Form: Narrative
Clean Name Bereft of Blame Game
...Undone
No problem
Dog gone
Grow solemn in Harlem, but think clean name bereft of blame game
Which advances your worthy cause
In form and substance
Required to insert a new clause
In the wake...
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Categories:
cargoes, poems,
Form: Free verse
Vistas of Perennial Happiness
...Remorse
A dainty dish great minds consume
On the humble horse
Small minds can’t begin to assume
In their bid to earn fame
Coveted in the confines of smallness
Vanquished, extinguished and dis...
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Categories:
cargoes, poems,
Form: Free verse
Cargoes of Folly Within Polly's Pate
...Let go of cargoes of folly
Your imagination entertains
Unless you want Molly
To catalyze the increase of strains of pains
You loathe to endure
In a bid to preserve the sanity
Ensconced in th...
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Categories:
cargoes, poems,
Form: Free verse
A Frame In the Sand
...And I boarded for to sail
a ship called the Northern Gail
and she was
yes she was
a lady
rich cargoes fill the hole
all the story was not told
yes she was
she was a lady
purest silk sho...
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Categories:
cargoes, sea,
Form: Free verse
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