Long Crewed Poems

RESURRECTION OF A HEROE:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
CHORUS:
Far from comparison, far from fear.
Failure part of the journey; shed no tears.
Man...do... the best you can do.
Talents in your hand's only for you. 
No body cares...what you...

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Dr. Mark Hall undertook the task of unarming the rigged satellite there in the secluded part of the lab. He is trapped in a section that, due to an oversight, has no substation. He must...

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So Far From Home
Under a curving shimmering blue fish bowl sky the small Patrol Torpedo boat cruises gentle summer swells in the distant Pacific, under summer skies torn apart by brutal bitter total war. 
Small...

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No Pictures Taken 
I see the pictures sent to me on my Facebook page of places
 I have not seen yet in countries I have been to as a seaman
 who join the sea out...

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THE ARCHAEOLOGIST’S WIFE
Sorry I cannot say her name, you all know her well
She was my brother’s wife at the Kimmerdale
My brother was an archaeologist
He found a pot in Egypt
In Tutankhamen’s chamber
Believe me it was made...

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Surplus of Requirement 

m/s “Kari” rode the seas like a swan, only when the most evil waves of 
the Atlantic ocean hit, did she flap her wings. Why was it she was crewed 
by harbour...

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the rig sails on
the captain at the wheel
steel billowed crosswinds
and Willie's gruff twang

come back...maybe not flip-flop 
rigs riggin' is sailin', movin'
waving goodbye to yesterday
I'm a stowaway into today

ahead is clear horizon
aft is crewed distant past
the...

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Away From the Camera. 

In the Bay of Bengal, near Tripura, a tank ship ran 
aground, an old ship that had been economical for 
its owner, carrying crude for a hungry west and
crewed by low...

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The Initiation 

It is not easy to be young at 16 I was a galley boy
on a tankship that even then 60 years ago was ancient
crewed by old mariners who spent their free time
playing cards...

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The Initiation 

It is not easy to be young at 16 I was a galley boy
on a tankship that even then 60 years ago was ancient
crewed by old mariners who spent their free time
playing cards...

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Hilarity At Hillary Popularity

Heard they were having much hilarity
With Hillary and all of her popularity
With appearances that are populating 
And her challengers are all hesitating.

They will blatantly need an antidote
No one for them does want...

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On social media and TV,
in papers that we buy,
bodies well honed and muscles toned,
the gorgeous greet our eyes.
Through pouting lips in selfies,
tousled hair and perfect tans,
parading in some foreign place
for legions of their fans.
To all...

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Grandad was a sea dog,
Who'd sailed the seven seas.
He told of his adventures
As we sat around his knees.

He told of a giant octopus
With tentacles aplenty,
We cried "how many grandad,"
He said "I reckon twenty."

He said it...

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Wouldst thou for me an air
upon thy tortoise lyre
play, and sing those words so fair
about the Isle of Tyre?

Within whose walls so grand,
there at bazaar would be
hangings made by weaver's hand,
and colored from the sea.

And...

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Dawn of man

Out of the night came the dawn a mild breeze 
blow petal off a rhododendron, a magic carpet 
on a whitewashed wall sunlight and shadow dance.
The dogs were still asleep, the cock had...

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To the Signalmen of the Watch

She is cool gray steel, slicing darkest sea.
Crewed by crazed youngsters, both man and woman.
Quiet and deadly, in following seas, free.
No light above, but the Moon and Orion.

Coffee, cigarette, red...

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There was acclamation at the acclimation, 
Because my acts did not feel axed or beat,  
And the loch was just beside us in notion, 
For my nudity to lock my up with the heat....

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