Long Brig Poems

The Amistad Mutiny

Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...

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“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.”  Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of...

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There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
    till Death its message sends.
They built a...

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Top of the world news has not really been good news examples are MH 370 (Malaysia missing Plane) and Nigeria’s missing girls. 

BRIG BACK OUR GIRLS has become a house hold song, some are even...

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While sailing out on morning’s tide
A mermaid on a rock I spied
She was a lovely half-fish girl
With a necklace made of whitest pearl

She smiled and blew a kiss to me
Then disappeared into the sea
She surfaced...

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of things d\found the scope
peace has existed with hope
even if a dope


did a bin blooper
had become a storm trooper
real super duper

together did click
with such a good looking chick
who of crop was pick

while wearing muzzle
put together...

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One morning, when I was stationed at base operations in Subic, I had a
telephone call. A Filipino shipyard worker had died during the night-shift,
on the job at the navy repair facility, apparently of natural causes....

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A UK Royal Mail Ship was RMS Rhone
A sail-steamer and a two-masted brig, she shone

Rhone had an iron hull and was 310 feet long
Her compound steam engine made her fast and quite strong

An innovative ship...

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Ghost Ship
Benjamin Briggs a master, with three previous commands
Took over the ill fated ship, which was to prove to be his last stand.

The ship originally named the Amazon, was 103 feet long
She was listed as...

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Unescorted NYC HMT NY 660 Louis Pasteur started out from 
New York  Harbor Nov. 30, 1944. 

Landed in Liverpool, England Dec. 8th, 1944. Arrived Brddulph, 
Staffordshire, England Dec. 9th, 1944.

From Weymouth, England to LeHavre,...

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Captain Bligh was his name,
he ruled his ship with an iron cane.
The Bounty was the ship,
sailing to Tahiti, via Cape Horn was the trip.
At Cape Horn, after tacking back and forth,
eastward, was set the course.
It...

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Photo by US Navy WestPack Album—Gorelick 2nd top right 
                       
“Not Squared-Away”

Crawling and...

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Don Arracho was fifty-four years old.
Rancho de Plata, gained from mission sale,
was Arracho's for price of a little gold.
Officials closed the mission's door, sad tale
when Spaniards came to grief and hold did fail.
Church gave release...

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Awa' oan the Firth of Forth, 
high oan the famous brig', 
a laboring lad toils tirelessly 
in the cauld and bitter wind.

Awa' aff the river shore, 
a braw lassie waits for him, 
scourin' and roastin'...

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Been months since I've been fishin', underneath the starry skies,  
Been months since I've been fishin', underneath the starry skies,  
Next week I'll go for stripers, with me I'll bring some pie.

I fish...

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B is for Buzzard under my hat,
my brain meaty and raw.
His talons cling like puppet strings.
His rabid teeth chew and gnaw.

Ye old Buzzard, nothing warm,
just a cold sentinel of death.
Not like the life-giving stork —
impervious...

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This poem is really a Canzonetta Prime  in Pentameter meter

The bay is free of sailing ships this day,
for the weather is not good so we sit 
inside the small café out of harm’s way.
We...

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"Have you called Brigit yet?" A friend to bawl and 
Here she is, in times or tales of plight and fight, 
peace and flight.
One year for every finger on each hand,
one to hold and one...

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It’s thirteen thousand miles from Boston to
San Diego around  far Cape Horn’s way.
Ship needs to sail to that distant quay.
The Cape is a hard challenge for the crew
It’s where the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans meet...

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Let I'm a piece of sheet, so be it,
The scrap of yours, the scrap of them,
I have no pity (I don't need it)
for past, I burnt I loved I ran
my soul (and it was very...

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So, what is love, what does it mean?
Four letters these too hard to speak,
You can't make love, you cannot win,
You must be drowned in it. And brig
of love must sail to crimson heart
that's painted on...

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Life out in the country has its own charm.
We have rifles and dogs out here on the farm.
Normal rules won’t apply if you choose to strike fear.
They won’t find your body, let’s just be clear.

We...

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Things Captain Picard Didn’t Dare Say

By Elton Camp

Commander Richer, quit pretending you care
I know full well all you really want is my chair

Counselor Troi, I’ll throw you in the brig for real
If you ask again...

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Jobless Jack, a real jerk, dances a jig,
He juggles, smuggles jewels in backpacks,
jawbreakers, jump ropes, jelly rolls and crack.
~~Jig be up,  Jack'll  jiggle in the brig.~~

Junk jingles and jangles, squeals like a pig
jerked...

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senses

it is about now knowing what you know except in certain circumstances 
when fractures appear; when the past and the future merge.
The authorities were looking for a sunken U-boat using underwater drones
 they found many...

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