Dockside Poems

Oceans Await

...OCEANS AWAIT

Away from the dockside and into the bay
Heading out to sea in this steel hulled ship
Powered by team, yet with masts and sail
A fast and safe journey is as the Holy Grail
Carrying...

A Common Whore

...Just a common whore they said
Who rolled the drunken tars
As they staggered out from
The Dockside taverns and bars.
Lime Street, Liverpool was
Where she plied her trade.
Where her drunken barga...

When the Pilot Arrives

...the pilot arrives 

When the world was big, and my ship left Trinidad just
as the sun set over the blue Caribbean and women, at the dockside waved goodbye forever, or perhaps not, if the ship retu...

Job, There Is Forever

...Sturgeon Moon
So soon
Summer slips through our fingers
Our own version of Michigan underwater beasts
Ogling the luminous bellies of boats swimming down Clam River

Dockside a roar with Ahab rev...

Le Quai

...Sitting on a quiet dock
Gulls and raptors nearby talk
Spring is clearly in the air
Longer days, more light to spare

Dancing sunlight on the bows
Lazy current, still in drowse
Moving where the...

Audrey Bowden

...A Lincolnshire lass was she
        in youth and bloom revealing,
and upon us all God smiled
when unto this world a child
       was born and bred in Healing

Red flower of the Midlands -
...

Sceilp Level

...They were Lilly Whites from Kildare,
And Boggers from County Clare,
Herring Gutters from Donegal
And Dubliner Jackeens.
They were Goat Suckers, Slaneysiders,
Magpies and Rossies.
They were Kell...

Torch Lake - Passing On the Torch

...He walked up from the lake
Throwing open the door of the glorious day
Like a smiling OB-GYN snapping off his gloves
With a toolbox in hand
Delivered to my dad the good news.

“I’m certain this ...

Fisherman Sketching a Canary

...There was a fisherman needing a buzz 
Full of hairy looking fuzz 
Watching a canary do what he does 
Using his noodle 
Fisherman started to doodle 
On a canvas for what it’s worth 
Being indepe...

The Light of Castine

...My love and I we took a ride
One beautiful Spring morn late May
Through the winding Maine countryside
We headed over Castine way

We came this way times before
To charming Castine town
Now we ...

Moon Glow Ride On Torch Lake

...Steering our boat across the moon glow
Like a fork stabbed through cream
We careen in the sheen of upside down light at 3:30 A.M.

The July night tries to close on us like a lid

The result of ...

Preparedness

...
Preparedness
By: Tom Wright
Feb. 1, 1998

Merely waiting
for your ship to come in
is not sufficient.
You must be dockside, prepared and
scanning the horizon.
Those who are content ...

Pride Slays Advice

...Stem the tide your pride rides
To a puerile pinnacle
In a vain belief it makes sensational strides
When like a locust your spiracle

Exhales carbon dioxide
To catalyze photosynthesis for red ro...

Mine Liberal Hierarchical Goodbye Construct

...Absent deliberate intervention
     vis a vis suicide,
supposed "natural" longevity of generic human 
     starring sallying forth primate ride
ding bareback across avast
     broke back mountai...

The Dreadful Mourn

...I'm a Piketown son who left his mum
To sail the eastern shores
Spent a year in Gloucester
'mong the barkeeps and the whores

Then a man came 'round to Gloucester town
Said boys I need a few...

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