Flukes Poems

Bigger Goals

...You know what soccer football needs?
Bigger Goals!
An extra meter on each side of the posts.
Bigger Goals means More Goals!
With goals shot from wider out,
the game then would be far less defens...

The Great White

...I effortlessly propel through the water
beating my flukes
smaller less worthy fish scram
make themselves scarce 
terrified of the Great White
Me...

Blue Enigma

...Aquatic colossus breaches with elation,
crystalline baubles spray towards 
periwinkle skies as casting flukes sway.
In expanse of brine play the descendants
of millennia old warriors; ...

The Ancient Seahorse

...Immortalized there in the Trevi,
Poseidon and his wondrous steed;
these legendary beasts of the waters
gallop the ocean forever free.

Ancestry of the charmer sea horse
forever pulli...

Unlivable Yet I'M Living

...Why does this anger inside of me 
reach the surface so violently 
a small violin sits silently 
the bow starts to slide the string

Quite simply 
I don’t want the sympathy 
nor feeling sorry 
...

Artigiano

...Oft I flew as an artigiano over turbid and stern feelings,
Blowing hard into alpenhorn to shake the mountains built to protect,
Pale-hued gems, aneurysms of loving, resisted the temptation,
They m...

On God, Faith, Evolution and the Evil In This World

...[This excerpt from a memoir I wrote 20 years ago seems sadly apropos given the recent mass murders and bombings]

This then is where my faith lies:that it will all work out in the long run, whether...

When He Hides His Face, Part Iii

...God showed His face a few more times--like
when He and Jacob wrestled, God knows why,
but wrestle they did, all day and into the night,
and here's the thing: God couldn't beat him!
Jacob held God...

Odyssey From Africa 13d 14a

...Chapter 13d

Yet at length he reawakened 
As if in another lifetime 
Han discerned a sound and movement 
Stiffly rose to look about him

And he saw his precious Matto
Crouching near him in th...

Odyssey From Africa 13c

...Chapter 13c

In the tracks of these cetaceans 
For as long as he could follow 
So he said to Tor the shipwright 
"I will follow after Matto
 
“In the hope beyond all hoping 
That my boy might...

Freaks

...Some of us are freaks
Some of us are less so
Some of us are geeks
With names like Fark or Bezlo.

Some have winning streaks
Lots of us are losers
Some of us have beaks 
Three of us are Hoosie...

Journey of Doubtful Indulgence

...putrid rascal was a real truant
and also a junkie
and a somnambulist too
and wicked gourmet bought a new guillotine

then the rascal walked dizzily 
like a mechanic dancer
around the cinnamon ...

Pure Love

...Look at the horizon to view a vast sea.
                    Orange, yellow and red skies move slow and cling.
 With a wind so crisp on the top of the knoll, oh , the smell of salty peace soothes on...

Oh Dear My, Butterfly

...Oh dear my, Butterfly

 With your awkward flight that looks not right, does this cause you pain ?
 Your beauty though proceeds you, but is it all in vain ?

You are a wondrous sight that beckons...

Whales - the Acrostic Style

...~Whales~
(Acrostic)


W hales are one of the largest an most beautiful magnificent marine mamals in the world
H ave been hunted for centuries for oil, meat, other raw materials.
A nd some of th...

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