Docks Poems - Poems about Docks

The River Remembers Sky

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Written: August 14, 2025

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River answers cloud with shimmer, and cloud
with a hush that folds into silver—

a breath that rises through its forgetting,
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WORSE THEN DOGS

...WORSE THAN DOGS

Mi step off di docks, salt burn in mi chest,
Suit sharp-press, hope pin to mi vest.
Windrush blood, calypso fire,
Dreams of gold — meet cold barbed wire.
“Welcome,” dem sneer w...

A Walk with Father

...He leads me through East London,
docks, pubs, among the stray dogs, the
River Thames lapping at low clouds.

We find the second-hand player in a street
where the shops are dusty holes under the ...

Ground Clouds and Fish Smaze

...A mackerel sky fillets a fish scaled village,
an ear clapping, full sailed, fog
moors itself to the rooftops,
then hides all in a breezeless blear.

Rheumy eyes peep out from nets,
damp noses s...

Hubs Of Heaven

...Catalytic cascade of mirror gleam relish on sleep encrusted eyes,
such sylvan surreal therapy aligned to  dulcet bird lilt,
garnish to the willow weave wayfarer of iridescent poetic inkling,
verna...

Midnight Star

...Midnight Star 
Radiant night 
Darkness takes flight 
Candles with a low dim light 
Star’s glow bright 
Oceans crash on the rocks 
Moonlight on the docks 
Your reflections tread across the wate...

a seaman's life

...A seaman's life

Looking at the map, I have been to most countries 
that have seaports but no time to explore work  had
to be done whether it was Monday or Sunday
I have crossed many seas. The P...

Victor Tries Again

...All I can be if it’s left up to me
Is a brain in a tank full of bubbles
Can’t hear it, can’t see it, I only can be it, 
And that’s just the start of my troubles

It was no disease that killed mo...

bath house

...Jordholmen’s public bath
Back in the days of yore, few people had a shower unit they might have had bathtub that was used once a week when the whole family bathed and the loser was the dad usually w...

Emerging From The Woods Onto A High Prominence

...The trees crowd in along the broken trail,
sunlight tries to push through, but mostly fails,
straight trunks spread out and obscure distant gaze,
there’s eyes out there, watching, afraid they’re p...

Lost desires

...I remember that day so long ago
when my family all went to the local store
and I discovered the traveling art show

paintings had they on every wall
price so low that even I could buy

and I d...

Van Gogh's Undergrowth And Two Figures

...He walks alone in silence as the ghost in his mind wants to come alive

Trees and wildflowers at his side, 
paralleling nature’s  balance
and symmetrical harmony, 
as the yellow faces and hollow...

Your Potential Reality

...I could compare it to being in a cardboard box,
to be a boat that has to remain on the docks,
to be a seed that will never see the sun,
to have never kept going when someone said to be done.

No...

Rolling Pontiac

...Roll on, Potomac, roll on
Roll on, Potomac, roll on,
Your banks cradle history, where legends are drawn.
From the heart of the nation, our dreams have been sown,
So roll on, Potomac, roll on.

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What Menace

...I saw ten ships departing north,
From out the grand Canal.
They each were armed with cannons four,
With mighty rationale.
Atop them flew my country's flag,
A phoenix white in pride,
It struck a...

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