Maelstrom
...Midst mild and wild tumults like eddy, vortex, swirl, and whirl,
A maelstrom is a summation of curl and twirl and hurl;
Weather and season get amalgamated with currents,
Winds, storms, gales, squa...
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Categories:
frigates, nature, ocean, sea, water,
Form: Rhyme
I Suppose They Will All
...i suppose they will all
be soon to depart
the danish girl
has removed her top
the germans will soon follow suit
the french girl
will arrive soon minus everything
there goes the male tourist
d...
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Categories:
frigates, humor, men,
Form: Free verse
She Is Running Down the Staircase
...she is running down the staircase
que pasa, que pasa, echoes before her
i am on the front balcony
watching the butterflies wander
from one miniature rose to the next
having my third cup of coffe...
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Categories:
frigates, fate, funny, humanity, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Is This Then My Fate
...is this then my fate
watching the scurrying crabs
rearranging sands, counting the waves
the wary eyes of the magnificent frigates above
your eyes were to me
exotic birds of aquamarine
whose fre...
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Categories:
frigates, heartbreak, loss, love,
Form: Romanticism
She Knew All the Moves
...she knew all the moves
Queen's Gambit
Sicilian Defense
Bura's Desperado Sacrifice
with her arms wrapping me
we barreled the freeway
racing headlong into the wind
balanced on two wheels below
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Categories:
frigates, love,
Form: Romanticism
I Become Lost In These Lazy Days
...i become lost in these lazy days
the ones i have learned to allow
sitting here on the balcony
watching the frigates glide to Bolero
below a content ocean, empty beach
my attention was broken by ...
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Categories:
frigates, celebration, change, childhood, children,
Form: Free verse
I Wander These Winter Beaches
...i wander these winter beaches
where autumn's storms
have removed the footfalls of summer
believing in spring
here i am alone listening
to the waves mellifluously remind
yet never recalling
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Categories:
frigates, solitude, winter,
Form: Free verse
The Boat Is As Weathered As His Face
...the boat is as weathered as his face
it is his life, his treasure
steering the prow to sea hours before dawn
and in that darkness, the nets are set
small talk meanders the ponga
time to catch up...
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Categories:
frigates, culture, fishing, life, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Minesweepers
...You may talk of submarines
And of other war machines
As you sip your beer and talk of yesteryear.
You may even look with awe
At the ships that roll and yaw,
And the carriers as steady as a ro...
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Categories:
frigates, boat, devotion, history,
Form: Rhyme
Lighthouse
...my friend,
beacon, bright ...
how you have bewitched my years,
dancing on the wall of my room since my first memory,
a warm sweep of security and steadiness,
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Categories:
frigates, analogy, imagery, memory, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Let the Wind Blow Through
...Let the Wind Blow Through
My house is built of fragile sticks
Each window opened shows a different view
Clean or with a dusty film, yet held close
A skin of remembrance hidden deep
Different f...
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Categories:
frigates, courage, inspirational, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Strength, Depth and Faith In Your Every Cell
...Select the right alternative
Despite rigours of states of nature
Electing to sweep aside your initiative
In the midst of shocks and blocks that determine to fracture
Well meant decisions to b...
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Categories:
frigates, poems,
Form: Free verse
The Bewailing
...Underwater where sound
carries much farther
the bustling of fish feeding
awakens the whales
tis morning above
frigates are moving
their noise like fright rising
all the sea's creatures
su...
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Categories:
frigates, community, conflict, environment, ocean,
Form: Free verse
On a Sea Wild and Stormtoss'D
...On a Sea Wild and Stormtoss'd
Once, on a sea wild and stormtoss'd, two boats were flung, no sure hand at their helm, no guide to steer, they at the mercy of every wave lashing. Oft storms flung them...
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Categories:
frigates, boat, christian, nature, sea,
Form: Ballad
To Emily Dickinson
...If Emily—Ms. Dickinson—could pen
fresh lines of verse today; what, I wonder,
would she say? Where would she even begin?
How will today change her verse—I ponder?
Would the Lady in White still wri...
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Categories:
frigates, allusion, imagination, irony, people,
Form: Sonnet
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