Long Dock Poems

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Divine Comedy Translation Canto Xii

Was the place where we climbing down the bank
Then arrived, alpine and, for what was there
Such as, that any eyesight would be shrank.

Similar to landslide that in side bare
Before Trento the Adige just smote,
Or for...

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Categories: dock, fantasy, universe,
Form: Terza Rima


Death Watch

Death Watch

It was early morning.
The sun was barely above the high hills on the other side of the lake.
I was at the end of the dock slowly reeling in my line.
I could see fish jumping...

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Categories: dock, death, father, poetry, sick, drug,
Form: Prose Poetry
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An Epic Love For Women

I know you're not here

but you are in my heart 

so 

you are always with me

i'll just slip into you

with these words.
 
I know 
there are mountains
dwarf the cities below 
peaks that stride above the...

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Categories: dock, beauty, celebration, dream, heart, love, magic,
Form: Epic
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The Call

The Call

For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I had good or bad news, it was just natural for...

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Categories: dock, angst, blessing, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Compelling Confusion is so uncool -No Way? Yes Way-

Crumbled like dust and I began to stumble like ashes with a gust of wind – that’s what I felt before exchanging smiles and goodbyes…
Oblivious obviously…removing the plank from my own eyes of deep-inside-prideful lies
Memorably,...

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Categories: dock, angst, anxiety, community, confidence, conflict, confusion, desire,
Form: Acrostic


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A Tall Tale

I must say Peter, I've had the most extraordinary day. It all started when I woke up this morning. I was brushing my teeth with this new toothpaste Pepsibrite and literally after just a few...

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Categories: dock, fantasy, fishing,
Form: Prose

The Captain

He sat all alone, drinking jim beam and coke

Looking out as the waves crashed ashore

He kept to himself, drinking jim beam and coke

As the storm winds would batter the door

He'd only come in when the...

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Categories: dock, america, bereavement, child, dad, grief, loss, ocean,
Form: Epic

Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025

Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025

min(no) newt effect on me.

As part and parcel of terpsichorean repertoire,
one whirling dervish 
flaps his wings at the speed of sound.

With twenty three hours
Sunday March 9th, 2025
essentially 2:00:00 to...

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Categories: dock, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Free verse
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Uncontainable

Uncontainable

(Music playing)

“I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord
and I’ve been waiting for this moment, for all of my life, oh lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord,...

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Categories: dock, character,
Form: Prose
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When I Consider Life Without You

When I Consider Life

As a baby, I was laying in my bassinet when a rifle bullet was shot through
 our living room window and passed through right under my bassinet not hitting me. 
 ...

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Categories: dock, blessing, dedication,
Form: Narrative
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When I Consider Life With You

When I Consider Life Without You

As a baby, I was laying in my bassinet when a rifle bullet was shot through  our living room window and passed through right under my bassinet not hitting...

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Categories: dock, appreciation, blessing, devotion,
Form: Narrative

Vexation At Self Regarding Avoidable Altercation

Vexation at self - regarding avoidable altercation...

Today May 12th, 2021
at Royersford (Pennsylvania) LIDL,
when spouse stepped into checkout line
(minus her horse drawn grocery cart -
pushed courtesy yours truly).

While passively standing stock still
I (think Stonewall Jackson)
let scenario...

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Categories: dock, absence, adventure, anger, angst, betrayal, conflict, emotions,
Form: Free verse
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Soul Stance River - 14

6 miles up river Arikara are encountered,
they are a people of amenable disposition and are agrarians,
they chuckle with sympathy as we inform them of our grizzly confrontation
and they tell us that disease had forced them...

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Categories: dock, adventure, , cute,
Form: Epic

Where Were You

Where Were You
   Where Were You as I sat Alone on the end of the dock, looking longingly into the night sky. As the so many stars that filled my eyes, and the...

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Categories: dock, lost love,
Form: I do not know?
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Unquotable Quotes: Lawyers - Xx

Unquotable quotes – Lawyers:  XX

(No aspersions are willfully or otherwise cast on the honorable profession of the Law. Though I’m not a Barrister, I passed – through self-study – all the subjects at the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dock, abuse, culture, dedication, humor, judgement, money, word
Form: Epigram

Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me

Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me

In 2024, daylight savings time will begin at two o'clock ante meridiem on Sunday, March tenth. That will mean losing an hour of precious sleep and moving the...

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Categories: dock, adventure, age, appreciation, creation, imagination, march, time,
Form: Rhyme
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An Adventure To Remember

AN ADVENTURE TO REMEMBER

I had never been camping in my entire life,
This was a first for me as husband, and wife ,
For our two boys this was bonding time,
CJ a seasoned camper, Ricky a rookie,...

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Categories: dock, africa, humorous, scary,
Form: Rhyme
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Ironies Within Ironies

The morning sun filters through dust-laden windows of the district education office like an unwelcome truth trying to penetrate wilful ignorance. Shelves buckle under the weight of untouched research journals like abandoned promises, their spines...

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Categories: dock, education, irony,
Form: Haibun
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Drop Dead Drones

By some quirky short circuit.
A drone mutated itself 
and became intelligent
.
As fate would have, 
The drone decided to take revenge. 
Chose Chill Bates as its target
The drone altered its algorithm 
and started re-programming.... its fellow...

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Categories: dock, technology,
Form: Free verse
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Storm Warning

I love spending nights on the lake.
Once the oven-like sun disappears,
things get suddenly quiet, except for
the occasional hoot of an owl, crickets, frogs
and the soft lapping of the lake on the boat.
When the moon rises...

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Categories: dock, adventure, fun, life, storm, summer, teen, weather,
Form: Free verse

The Midnight Crown

The silent night walks like a freighted man in boots, and penetrates the head of the living dead while they lay down in silence to sleep. Not a sound could be heard except for the...

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Categories: dock, absence, adventure, beach, beautiful, beauty, celebration, community,
Form: Free verse

The Box Office

Run to the box office and pick up the musical score, run to the box office the patrons are flooding the floors; you need more chairs to fill the open space, you need extra security...

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Categories: dock, america, beauty, business, care, confidence, courage, dance,
Form: Narrative
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No Pirate’s Lament

When the ocean’s calm and shiny it be joyous to behold
When the spyglass sights Port Royal there be good rum to be sold
When a pirate holds the spyglass and his ship be filled of gold
Might...

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Categories: dock, sea,
Form: Rhyme

A Meadow For Autumn

A meadow for Autumn

Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
 
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me 
lichen kenning myself 
as Rip Van Winkle 
except being repurposed
as  oldest living species. 

With an estimated...

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Categories: dock, animal, appreciation, autumn, creation, dark, environment, heaven,
Form: Free verse
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Golden Age of Music

Two decades of music were known as the golden age.
It was all the rage, the era from the 50s through the 70s
Motown, Rock and Roll, and Blues that touched my heart.
Listening to them always start...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dock, music,
Form: Free verse
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