Sea Film Poems

TITANIC – A SCREEN PLAY

They say we’ve hit an iceberg
And the ship is going to sink.
But I refuse to believe it;
They’re over-reacting I think.

Don’t they...

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remember when we first went to see a film
Remember the first disk we bought, oh so slim
Remember when we first turned on that channel, not...

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There is a Glass Sea, a dead ocean,
It is snowing again but it is barely September.
You blend seasons like colors because I want to breathe...

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DIMASH THE SHEPHERD 
(Story of One Sky Conclusion)

I am
Shepherd
Cloaking myself
In God’s soft simplicity 
My tasks complete
Songs sung
Light shone
Souls ignited 

Each day seven wheels
Revolved their full...

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Far tae the North hidden alang Moray coast,
Therr bides a little toon o which yin can boast. 
Wi a rid phone boax in pride o...

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We grew up with sci-fiction,                                        ...

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Memories sweet or pity
May be seen through dark glasses
I cherished the memories of the time we once spent together
When we are young
The scenery shimmered through...

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Sunday somewhere safe

 My fingers itch to write
but it will not be about the moon
it hangs there like a balloon.

I refuse to turn on the...

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alpine peaks
a guitar body
a Colombian sink hole
a waxed surf board
fertile crescent silt
a half cut fig
an asterix

Orion's Belt
sun rise rays rising
Pisa's leaning tower
a rollercoaster zipping down
a...

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H M S Bounty
harsh sadistic Captain Bligh. . .
Fletcher's restraint breaks






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved. 
First published 2018 in Hollywood Haiku...

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Here, beyond the realm of air
          I've given what this job remands
    ...

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The Temptation 

The girls in the bar that had floors made of
Stranded schooners timber came and sat by us
Many sailors had drowned here
On their way...

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If I were rich I would live in Orlando, 
Where the sun grooms the watered land, 
Where busyness is quelled by knowing that, 
You can...

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Film Set?
There were many bathers on the beach when a rusty 
U-boat surfaced, a hatch opened a man came on deck
he was the captain and...

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It was midday, just before the end of spring and sunlight had conquered everything. Despite the heat, the leafy pergola above his mother's yard enclosed...

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