Fitzgerald Poems - Poems about Fitzgerald

Prelude to what….. I see you, / you / yes, come into my…… laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging. where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of thought and savage syntax shatter like glass on concrete. Where Titans clash their pens both spear and shield signifier and signified in eternal dance. What truths lie hidden in the battle's tolling roll call. Just what...

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Edwrd Fitzgerald a gentle manner translated Omar Khayyam These quatrains known asrubaiyat so novel hedonistic &stansaic...

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The Edmond Fitzgerald was a tanker bold, twenty five thousand tons of cargo, she held in her hole. A crew of twenty seven sailors, a captain and a mate sailed the stormy waters of a Michigan Great Lake. She cruised out under a clear blue sky: they stood on the decks as the waves slipped by. They saw the sea birds...

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“Superior, they said, never gives up her dead When the gales of November come early” – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Balladeer, from The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald A song by Gordon Lightfoot I would hear in 1976, my newborn daughter’s year. S S Edmund Fitgerald was the ship, and Lightfoot’s song described its final trip. I thought that Lightfoot had made up...

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In memory of the SS Edmond Fitzgerald November 10, 1975 Seventeen miles Northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan Lake Superior Twenty-nine crew men are cradled in a watery grave no distress calls were ever heard no bodies ever recovered the gales of November turned fierce as the 729 foot ore carrier plummeted to her final resting place 530 feet below Lake Superior holds too many secrets and leaves...

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Lake Superior, Gitche Gumee November winds, fear starts boiling. The ship creaks, groans, twists, water spumy; Thoughts of loved ones waiting on shore pushed aside. Evil eye of the storm is coiling And springs to release twenty-nine souls into the debris. The church bell twenty-nine times is tolling....

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Today, would never be elected! He'd be run out of rooms. How dare he ask us: "Ask not what your country can  do for you, ask what you can do for your country." I remember being so moved by that statement. But our country has taken a new direction. And we scratch our heads, oh really? Asking why there is so much dereliction? Re-think JFK's question. Stop listening...

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The Great Lakes Engineering Works built a new boat S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald, t'would soon be afloat The people that owned her needed a name President of the company was given that fame. One of the largest boats to sail on the Great Lakes Was a solidly built boat and had what it takes September twenty fourth nineteen fifty and eight Was...

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And there for one brief moment Was our light Shining strong And shining bright Bringing us new signs of hope With courage And the gift to cope He left us when he's needed most Returning to the Blessed Host With caring grace And love of man This leader came Did all he can All must remember what he gave His dreams for us Are what we save...

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