Logbook Poems


Intrusion

Prying eyes on a peeping screen 
Shouting curses in between 
Minding someone behind closed doors 
Eyes on the ceilings and the floors 

Making one's life an open book 
Just like a ticket for a look 
Intrusive eyes find a way to ride 
While someone finds a way to hide 

Making a logbook for one's mistakes 
While cold hearts bet for the highest stakes 
Why must one endure the pain 
Of being a puppet for a gain?
Categories: logbook, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSemi Divorced

She was a less-than-truckload lady
Who’d signed a contract for the long haul
With the interstate driver she married.
But that trucker kept a bogus bill of lading
And a logbook full of lot lizard flings.
So now she’s rolling down the big slab
In her hubby’s bobtail bulldog,
His gooseneck flatbed stranded in the wings.

She’d just renewed her CDL for diesel;
Her unexpected dispatch wasn’t forced.
Her old man was a cracker-headed weasel.
She left him feeling semi divorced.		
Semi divorced, like a rider unhorsed.
She took away his way to keep on trucking.
Semi divorced was the judgement, of course.
He fooled around with fire and got a f*cking.

What you say?

I say, he fooled around with fire and got a f*cking!

We hear dat.
Categories: logbook, allegory, divorce,
Form: Lyric


A Vultures Homily

I am vulture
My soul case may be repugnant,
However, I have every sawbones decimal
On my speed dial
Before any croacker decrees justice
On a soul case,
They confer with me

My logbook contains a docket
Of every Golgotha and slaughterhouse on the planet
I am on first name basis 
With every casket maker, mortuary Steward and proprietor 

I am the fiend no soul case wants to see,
Hear or dream about

My name send's shivers down the spine of mortals
I am a friend in need and indeed;
I am the curator in every country
Where war and conflict thrive
No one thinks of me
And no one want's me as a pet


I am the dark one; the dark continent
I am vulture, the patient one
Categories: logbook, africa, art, creation, discrimination,
Form: Personification

Time Travelers

Time travelers
who drews routes
those who leave the logbook empty
journeys in a misty wheather
we are among the ice mountains
pirates once cut our road off

we boarded descend and ride at every dock
Categories: logbook, allegory,
Form: Alliteration

Log Book

From a ship’s logbook 

Sat on deck another long day I smelled of chippy fat 
and the sweat of honest labour  

The stove in the galley was oil fired but I wanted to 
read a few poems before I had a shower. 

The light wasn’t any good so I read a western book,
 as I always had wanted to be a sheriff in Texas. 

The book was good I knew the words before I read
 them, fell asleep when I awoke it was midnight

I knocked on my cabin door, give roaches a change 
escape; impossible long days and blithe was the sea 

In the morning I was still reeking of chippy fat and it 
was too late to have a shower.
Categories: logbook, funny, sea, , western,
Form: Couplet


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