War Fishing Poems

Blood money isn’t paid in silver these days,
just transferred to your account
with a sheet of computerised data
to tell you their proffered amount.
I’m standing over the...

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Alfred out fishing

Alfred, the pianist, who insists he is not my father,
And I went out fishing caught a few when I gutted one of them
We...

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I wake to a monochrome world and I yawn
The reds, greens and yellows awaiting the dawn
Out on the water, my luminous float
Rides unseen ripples in...

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The summer has long since faded
The sky seems eternally grey, 
A white carpet laid down on the landscape clearing the green grass away.
The house is...

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Drop me off on an island
where coconuts dangle sweetly
where the ghost of lost love
pirouettes on a moon kissed beach

A hut made of palm leaves is...

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Pick it 
Up that 
There in

Front of 
You then
Throw it

Over 
There
Behind

You where you
Once were
Before

When you 
Stepped out 
Your door and

Walked
Passed
Other

People's glass
Houses all the while
Smiling knowing...

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In spite of the choice that I made to be wed
The call of the sea was the voice in my head
The wreck of a ship...

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Scan the river and pick a spot
Choose your lure and tie a knot

May catch them all, may get none
To not get skunked, just catch one

Throw...

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The Prize 
The bobber floats, but when it dips, my heart skips for hooked lips. The line tightens, the tug is strong, I reel in....

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Clutching
The end of my Zebco rod and reel
As the cast of tackle is flung
Like a small knot of costume jewelry
Skimming atop the caramel-colored Grand River
Dragonfly...

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Hull is the great and unique city where I was born
Sitting on the Humber estuary...proud and all alone
Known for keeping Charles I and his army...

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LOVESONG TO AN ALASKAN FISHERMAN

If tame you want 
Tis fool you’ll get
In fishing North high seas
But if you go a trolling
And you catch a fish...

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Fishing is a lot like life
You just don't make it your wife
You need to cast the fishing reel
This is taking a chance in real
When the...

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So far offshore, but nothing was biting

Six-pack behind me looked so inviting

     New rod I placed on the deck

  ...

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Way off the coast of Maine he is fishing
while soldiers he sent to war are dying;
and out in the desert blood is flowing
as he is...

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