Landlubbers Poems - Poems about Landlubbers

The Ocean Within

...All landlubbers like us
carry a bag of primordial ocean
within us, to bathe our aquatic cells.
Our blood and bodily fluids
are saline, akin to the seawater,
from which they originated.
Despite ...

Overtaken By Pirates

...red morrel mushrooms that always overgrew
they annoy me sometimes, how about you?
hey! who invited Captain M’s pirate crew?
They are rude and always spit in the awful beef stew

They all pretend...

The Sky Has Gills

...Broken-hearted are the tree limbs,
General Flooding surveys the wreckage
blames a subversive sky.

Gamely, the peg-legged scarecrow
salutes the wavy navy
while they row on by
in their bathtub ...

Trawl Tale of a Fictitious Seaman Told To Ye

...While on the topic 
of blood kith and kin,
I relate another 
fabricated poem about 
blimey bloke of a fisherman. 

Trawl tale of a fictitious seaman told to ye...

Courtesy webbed whirled wid...

Invocation

...Remote land summon an aloof tempest,
Bursting lights glint inquietude offshore,
Edged mists intimate like an apprentice,
Intrigue asserts the clouded to explore.

Inland heating like a w...

Earth Day 2021 Thursday April 22

...POETIC PREFACE:

An inner conflict dust brew
within this scribe, who offers ye to chew
(like sweet treats metaphorically) thee do
tee incumbent, when Doomsday clock
counts down minutes few
acc...

The Fishermans Brush With Death - Sea Shanty

...One fine day I was fishing at sea
Two big blue whales swam up by me
They flicked their tails sent up a spray
All I could do was watch and pray

They kept flicking and sank my boat
I'm now i...

Earth Day 2020 Wednesday, April 22

...Earth day 2020 – Wednesday, April 22

Bajillion banshees scream bloody murder methought
upon Biblical (lionized) forebears stalking heads
birthed courtesy accursed beasts hood besought
winds how...

Witness To Evolution

...I would help man evolve toward God’s Dreams for this life
And not strive just for mites (some ascribe to have worth?)
(In God’s Will) let us humbly trust Grace is God’s Gift
To a sinner who can’t ...

In Summer Re I Haint Getting Undressed

...In summer re: I haint getting undressed!

Hence donning entire wardrobe,
Saint Nick outfit including,
while trumpeting think spring
argh only about four plus months away
lest some big bird will...

Rolling Stones

...Once upon a time in the lands from the north, south, east to west    
Navigating on the cold white sands formed of sugar and ice        
Crest be blessed with gold, and silver, the sunset and the c...

Distant Gleams

...Distant gleams twinkle

   Beckon sailors, landlubbers 

      Thousand points of light...

Trawl Tale of a Fictitious Seaman

...(scoured from dregs of me muss held head)

I shore up a vignette to free 
my ("FAKE") grandfather Hymie,
whose scrunched countenanced 
evinced beetle that of browed monkey
he spent his entire l...

Landlubbers

...Three
	….. huddle in a wet doorway
					……brown bag sipping
								   ….any port in a storm.


								John G. Lawless
								©3/3/2018...

Tale of a Fictitious Seaman

...My grandfather Hymie 
     spent his entire life at sea
his thick calloused hands 
     and ruddy complexion re
     enforced non verbal body language 

voluminous tomes as testimony
     to c...

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