Dockside Poems - Poems about Dockside

...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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 - ......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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...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 ......

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... 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 ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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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