Left Unsaid
...This is better left unsaid,
Would a doctor want this read?
"Growing old is not for jibs,
Your fluid tablets give us the blip!"...
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Categories:
jibs, age, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 11d
...Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 11 (d) cont...
Thus the boarding of the parties
Was a speedy operation
Very soon the whole flotilla
Sailed toward the open ocean
This wide bay from which the s...
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Categories:
jibs, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
The Sea
...I see nothing that's made by man's hand.
My eyes make out this deep waterland.
We race sea path this day's way as planned.
Sails full, breeze strong.
Sheets need go far to reach beach and sand.
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Categories:
jibs, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Sands of Time
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Seashells filled with oil
Then one by one set ablaze
Til they fill the night
With orbs of light
And turn it into day
Upon a beach
Once strewn with bodies
Of which tides and tim...
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Categories:
jibs, destiny, history, ocean, time,
Form: Light Verse
Sailboats
...Does anything look more serene
Than sailboats in a harbor scene?
Their stark white jibs and hulls that glide
A sense of peace and calm provide.
I've only seen them from the shore,
Not having b...
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Categories:
jibs, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Billow the Sails!
...Aye and it’d be “Land Ho”, ya lazy landlubbers!
It’s where ya’d be if ya’d had yer druthers,
Braggin’ the seven seas and swiggin’ pints of ale,
Chasin’ maidens and wishin’ on a mermaid tail!
Loo...
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Categories:
jibs, fantasy
Form: Light Verse
Performing Contours
...True feelings to hold behind the mask will see;
Changing colors is the only rightful need.
Emotions come and go behind the face shell.
The joker face detains each falling tear drop.
In happine...
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Categories:
jibs,
Form: Free verse