Hawsers Poems - Poems about Hawsers

...He sits quietly on a cargo hatch, Patiently watching deck apes Secure rat guards to hawsers. They make his job a little easier. There’s no requesting liberty. Not even the thought of it. The Bo......Read the rest...

...The tweet on the pipe called the muster fall-in The cadets all fell in with nary a din For now they’d be grouped for “Hands to Cleanship” To dress up the ship afore the Old Man's pip-pip Well-t......Read the rest...

...I’ve been harkening back to my formative years Haunting seedy seaport bars in Keelung, Navigating strange interventions abroad, While adjusting my ears to an alien tongue. On the streets of th......Read the rest...

... Sail away Cast off those hawsers That tie the spirit to the quay Lift the anchor of your soul… Catch the wind in billowed sail Set the course Then sail away… Permit the wind to be ......Read the rest...

...Phoenix and Phoenicia They had both been victims of their own sad minds stories lost told and untold narratives to be re-authored livid experience lived in silence meaning smeared in crusted mud......Read the rest...

...Five miles of neatly spaced suckered palm planted Bustling promenade, Not withstanding a provincial cafe-culture Of restaurants and exciting little bars, Enhance upon regal elegance of the cram......Read the rest...

...ENTERING THE HOOK Along the channel edge Buoy lights swayed and tossed. At our hull the surly sea threw a last slap Like an animal wild and lost. Stinging spray stopped driving Into our faces as w......Read the rest...

...GETTING TOO OLD Her story told by old charts, scattered, water-drenched. Portholes all broken, shaft and screw missing : a wreck , Grounded on concrete platform like an old man sittin......Read the rest...

...WRECKS Battered funnel, broken hawsers, holes in deck, Grounded on concrete platform like an old man sitting on bench, Portholes all broken, shaft and screw missing : a wreck , Her sto......Read the rest...

...scorned sailor's warnings turbines chewed November gales writhing hawsers coil swirl purple sundowns cackling, taunting, demons deep scaling mou......Read the rest...