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Kicked Through

...Knock knock I kept knocking at addictions door
Each knock feeling as if only they were knocked

Days turned to weeks with little to no progress
I kept knocking at the door so well locked

Failu...

Healing of Joshua Tree

...Some may look to distant Mars
among radiant stars.
Get to the desert, you'll find more
much nearer ours. 

Nearer than any man knows. 
Ancestral, celestial bones, 
secret kept in Mojave's bota...

Slow Boat To China

...I was born in a landlocked getaway town
Where all the colors were black, gray, or brown.
Jobs at the steel mill were ratcheting down.
It was not in my future to stay.

So, I took a long walk off...

Shopping Center Sailors

...A leisurely coffee, conversation
that barely makes it across
the table before slipping back
into silence, shapes passing by
shadowed in the blurr 
of their growing distance.

They gather at te...

Haunted By the Call of the Sea

...‘She was haunted by the call of the sea;
Wishing to dive forever stay under. ‘
Truly that woman has always been me,
Dying to wake from a landlocked slumber....

Everywhere Comes Back To Me

...My travelling shoes
got up early,
they had hydraulic jump-starts.

Countries spun my head around
while I discovered lands
only Albatross dream of
in a limitless sky.

Across many countries
...

We Are Not Islands : May 2016

...We are not islands
We of the islands of N and Z placed together
There are three of us

If we were islands
We would lie in the sea
Sunbathing
Waves would lap over us
Playfully tickle our sandy...

One-Eye Jake

...Their youngest boy, they call him one-eye Jake
He was as means as a black mamba snake
Cursed like a landlocked sailor
Took a job as a county jailor
Made all the money a good thief can make.

wr...

Afghanistan

...At the remote crossroads of Central and South Asia
Fostering pre-history vestiges as landlocked country
Gathered the dust of the famous ancient silk route
Hibernated lo...

September Moorings

...Slips marked and mapped across the intercoastal waterways
 a scanning breached out of high low tidal waves,
silent, still, obscure, and not well hidden
 liveaboards hold steady isolated sheltered ...

Afghanistan

...How interesting. A contest about Afghanistan.
Afghanistan sits landlocked between Pakistan on the East
and Iran on the West with a population of 39 million. It's enemy                              ...

I Stand I Stepped In An Aquatic Spillway of a Dream Lake-

...I STAND I STEPPED IN AN AQUATIC SPILLWAY OF A DREAM LAKE

Dream lake head waters
Thing of lacquer
Engaging lacquering
Full of shallows
Silent lac

I stand I stepp...

Shipwrecks

...My people are shipwrecks,
they have faces long crushed by tanks.
Many are landlocked,
a few were too oceanic
they got broken by dry-docked hearts.
Most were blitzed by smokescreens.

The trees...

Landlocked

...Longing for the sea,
the foam soaking my hair;
Longing for the  breeze, 
to carry my song on the air;
For gills and a tail
I’d gladly give this life;
Longing for the day 
I don’t have to come ...

Friday Night Lights

...Faster than a precipitous squall, ivy spreads and climbs the wall.  It's quarried a landlocked structure in Nepal. Through the cracks wails an ominous battlefield call. The preamble of turnacets tied...

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