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Hawsers
Hawsers Poems - Poems about Hawsers
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...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......
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Michael Kalavik
Categories:
hawsers,
adventure, allegory, allusion, animal,
Form:
Blank verse
Cadets Dress Ship
...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......
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Karam Misra
Categories:
hawsers,
military, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Ravenous Vulture
...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......
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Michael Kalavik
Categories:
hawsers,
allegory, literature,
Form:
Lyric
Sail Away
... 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 ......
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David O'Haolin Whalen
Categories:
hawsers,
adventure, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Victim Or Victor
...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......
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Kai Michael Neumann
Categories:
hawsers,
change, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Wonderful Worthing Promenade Part 1
...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......
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John Fleming
Categories:
hawsers,
sea, , Lullaby,
Form:
Rhyme
Entering the Hook
...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......
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Sidney Beck
Categories:
hawsers,
adventure, sea, sea, storm,
Form:
Verse
Getting Too Old
...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......
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Sidney Beck
Categories:
hawsers,
adventure, life, nostalgia, old,
Form:
Quatrain
Wrecks
...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......
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Sidney Beck
Categories:
hawsers,
adventure, nostalgia, peopleold, old,
Form:
Quatrain
Ides of Gitchigumi
...scorned sailor's warnings turbines chewed November gales writhing hawsers coil swirl purple sundowns cackling, taunting, demons deep scaling mou......
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James Marshall Goff
Categories:
hawsers,
adventure,
Form:
Haiku