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Gloomy international waters

...Let sail this doom and gloom
Drinking gasoline with a blue lighter
In the morning head up the gangplank
The hours till I lay down is a lifetime
I’ve become a child drunk on hydrocarbons
How will...

Categories: gangplank, addiction, depression, father son,
Form: Free verse

Changing Tack

...Enrolling as a pirate is much harder than it seems,
You’ll need to speak in present tense and chase your wildest dreams. 
Well, once you’ve trained a parrot and been measured for your hook,
You ha...

Categories: gangplank, anger, boat, endurance, pollution,
Form: Rhyme

No Pirate’s Lament

...When the ocean’s calm and shiny it be joyous to behold
When the spyglass sights Port Royal there be good rum to be sold
When a pirate holds the spyglass and his ship be filled of gold
Might he tak...

Categories: gangplank, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

And Many Thought

...AND MANY THOUGHT WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE

Tell me child, what it was like so many years ago?
When as a young person you grew
In what we considered was times of uncertainty so,
...

Categories: gangplank, war,
Form: Free verse

How Can One Know

...How can one know,
if it's possibly the real deal?
Able to see through layers,
Without having to peel.
Birds will fly and play,
around him this very day.
Teaching those who are inside or parked,...

Categories: gangplank, angel,
Form: Free verse

Where My Thoughts Took Me Today

...
Where My Thoughts Took Me Today
2/17/2018
Tom Wright

Lying supine in bed and deprived of sleep, 
I face another morning my mind most blank.
Adverse thoughts disrupt my counting sheep...

Categories: gangplank, jobs, work,
Form: Lyric

Odyssey From Africa - Stargazing 1

...King Ptolemy the Second (cont.)

Sleek of line for speedy sailing 
It was rugged in construction 
Several layers of well cured timber
Lined the hull and bridge and gunwales 
 
There were four ...

Categories: gangplank, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative

An Actors Life

...An Actor`s life 
My life as an artist lasted long although no one saw me acting
only that my behaviour changed if I had read a book and liked
the hero in it, or seen a western movie; became that p...

Categories: gangplank, absence, , western,
Form: Blank verse

You Had a Bird In Hand

...You had a bird in hand


your boat was right there at your pier
with your name on it
all the accouterments were at your fingertips
there was nothing  to do but jump aboard
it was that easy 
o...

Categories: gangplank, beauty, perspective, relationship,
Form: Free verse

Belle of the Balls

...Belle of the Balls
                                                      A Fairy Tale  
Once upon a time in a mythical land, there lived a beautiful young Ball named Belle Rolle.
She was perfect i...

Categories: gangplank, fantasy, children,
Form: Narrative

Terri Loves a Ferry Ride

...Young Terri loved a ferry ride,
She rode it all the time,
She'd put the money in the slot
To ride the ferry line.

The ferry rose up and down
Upon the harbour wave,
Sometimes she'd hear the fo...

Categories: gangplank, education, children, travel,
Form: Rhyme

The Cabin-Beginnings

...Sighing, he shouldered the old duffle bag
And followed others as they sauntered down the gangway
Free at last, from the ship's cramped and stench-filled quarters,
He smiled, at the crisp, fresh and b...

Categories: gangplank, adventure, cowboy-western, people, old,
Form: Rhyme

Liberty Port

...We strained,
Well taut,
All mooring lines to port,
Tying alongside Oriskiny,
Then lowered gangplank,
Riding on the pier.

Mail Call! 
Sounds the 1-MC
Perfumed letters all,
From the One I Lo...

Categories: gangplank, sea,
Form: Free verse