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Your Warmth: a Sailor's Tale

All is calm, all is at rest where once a storm had brew. No spray of mist, no violent torrent, nor upheaval of swelling wave to creek timbers or wash men over.

There was a calmness...

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Categories: abaft, home, sea, storm, sun,
Form: Prose

Rime of the Ridiculous Mariner

" Rime of the Ridiculous Mariner "

{warbled to the Merry Tune: Jingle Bells!}

Jingle Bells & Flyin' Hulls
All sheets in so tight~
Yikes Ahoy! There's the ploy!
Sail right through this night!

Run downwind beat to weather
fall off as...

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Categories: abaft, adventure, me, may, me,
Form: Rhyme

to sail the sky -

* For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness *

                            ...

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Categories: abaft, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea, sky,
Form: Couplet

My Eyes Turn Back

I've courted luck, in countless ways
      Against the ragged judgments and self-umbrage
         I still draw breath, and the mirror has been charitable
...

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Categories: abaft, age, growth, introspection, life, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Odyssey of Night

We've sought our sextant, fair and free,
          Thus bound with dreams, this starlit sea -
           ...

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Categories: abaft, adventure, imagery, science fiction,
Form: Kyrielle

Odyssey of Night

We've sought our sextant, fair and free,
          Thus bound with dreams, this starlit sea -
           ...

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Categories: abaft, analogy, fantasy, journey, science fiction, space, stars,
Form: Kyrielle

Lost At Sea

The ship was atoss on the ungallant sea
The swells took a toll as the hull strained and cracked
It would be fair time afore it sought the lee
With the slams and the pitching the ship could...

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Categories: abaft, sea, weather,
Form: Free verse

My Dream 14yrs Old

Enter to come
Suffer into
So I appeared
Soused in my tripes
A semblance cast
School way in halls
Visage of black
Takes two steps to
I ebb trail back
Forthwith I flashed
In bathroom stalls
Walketh me them
Toward the hind abaft
Descryed my eyes
Two pairs of...

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Categories: abaft, addiction, child, teen,
Form: Bio

Marked Wrists

Behind those hidden marked wrists
Are lies, skepticism and fears
Behind those calloused, clenched fists
Is a cauldron of uncontrollable tears.

Behind those evident scars
Is a constant cycle of sorrows
An imaginary fiend that mars
A twinge that only herself knows.

Behind...

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Categories: abaft, abuse, death, depression, judgement, loneliness, lost, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme

A Dillydally Way

Trailing naked toes, hat low peaked
fingers laced abaft head and sun,
white-water gently threading through
the webbed keel of one foot.

The sky is blasting blue,
splotching louder blobs of cobalt
around a midday solar blaze.
Even the river billows,
heaps uplifted...

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Categories: abaft, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Wind Beneath My Wings

The wind beneath my wings was a fart
And excuse me is all I could say;
Flying here where worlds apart
As the good folk looked on in dismay.

For they had expected much more,
Loftier goals had been set...

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Categories: abaft, humorous,
Form: Rhyme