Dugout Poems - Poems about Dugout

You Think I’m Dreaming

...I felt the sea on my pulse,
the salt in my brunette,
pebbles underfoot,
the net dragging me.

I felt the familiar ebb and flow,
close to shore,
tippy-toes.

The coconut permeates the dawn,
...

Milton Creek Election Week

...Judge Horne issued a decree that elections take place this week 
For the positions of mayor and sheriff in the town of Milton Creek 
It had now been nearly four years and was somewhat overdue 
...

Shadows in the Dark

...Shadows in the dark keep staring at me and a visible image is walking swiftly behind me, the sun rises with pain in my head and the villagers are walking towards the cemetery to bury the dead; everyt...

A Dream of Higher Powers

...
The other night
Visiting in a dream a foreign land
We waited in expectation
The arrival of a group of alien dignitaries 
Somehow involved in guiding the culture.

When they approached across ...

Ambition

...You walked into my life and turn it upside down, you were certain that I could wear the golden crown, you have been following me from I was a child and you made several stories, books and movie but u...

The Hidden Village By Sea

...I have heard about a village by the sea where everyone has a master and doctorate degree, the population is about ten thousand and they all have unique qualities that you can use when you don’t know ...

An ode to a wounded child

...O tender soul, o innocence defiled,
What cruelties did your youth upend?
Tormented by she who should cherish her child,
Instead her addictions made her your fiend.

Those eyes that should have b...

Break on through

...Take a battering ram to the other side
The recoil will do me harm
A knife and spoon will suffice
Break the gates violently with arms
It will seal itself again and entice
It will swallow ...

Winter Dream

...I can still feel autumn lingering in the clouds and the birds are flying restlessly about, the leaves are still hanging on the tree holding court with the squirrels in dugout boat as they wait patien...

Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Imu Ground Oven

...Preparations for 'Luau' (LOU-ow) or a Hawaiian Party-like event, for a church Luau, would be a 'Ho'ike' (hoe-'E-kay). The hunters will tie the hind legs of whatever animal will go into an 'i'...

Camouflage

...If something is out there you will see, if something is out there it will come running after thee, the squirrel is skilled at climbing trees and the bears can hold on to a certain degree. They can cl...

We Got a Crowd That's In a Frenzy Bob

...The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Chapter L.A.

I like to think of [the habit] as a bonfire or a lighthouse, so that light can shine out into places where there are no resources and there isn...

One Recluse's Perspective

...Alike to war, with as
Little relief
In holding one's dugout
Of anxious doubt
Life, the long wait. Broken
Up by the odd
Shell blast of excitement.
Fun-charged event....

I Should Have Seen It Coming

...I should have seen it coming – 
but more often the obvious
is yet only viewed through a cloak
of personal affections and
ignorance – 

I should have seen it coming

but the heart is a clown
...

Occurence In An Oculus

...river is waist deep
ambience of lily pads 
swings elephant trunks
multitude of rubbernecks
in dugout canoes; and me

1/31/2023...

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