Long Dockside Poems
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The Light of Castine
My love and I we took a ride
One beautiful Spring morn late May
Through the winding Maine countryside
We headed over Castine way
We came this way times before
To charming Castine town
Now we had come again once more
To...
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Categories:
dockside, adventure, fire, house, light, love, may, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dreadful Mourn
I'm a Piketown son who left his mum
To sail the eastern shores
Spent a year in Gloucester
'mong the barkeeps and the whores
Then a man came 'round to Gloucester town
Said boys I need a few
Strapping lads such...
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Categories:
dockside, history, sea, song,
Form:
Rhyme
As I Sail To You
Far out on Neptune's briny sea,
my hammock holding still
while the ship slowly rocks side to side,
tired and lonely, I close my eyes.
In this darkness I can hear
the constant lapping of the waves
against my ship's hull...
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Categories:
dockside, adventure,
Form:
ABC
Just a Witty Bitty, From One So Silly
My T.V. just left, said he was
Gonna go out and catch a real movie...
Those on T.V. stations have grown too trite,
My refrigerator told me,
He ain't letting me in no more...
At least till I drop 20...
I...
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Categories:
dockside, adventure, angst, mystery, parody, me, me,
Form:
Burlesque
Audrey Bowden
A Lincolnshire lass was she
in youth and bloom revealing,
and upon us all God smiled
when unto this world a child
was born...
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Categories:
dockside, thanksgiving day, voyage,
Form:
Rhyme
Fisherman Sketching a Canary
There was a fisherman needing a buzz
Full of hairy looking fuzz
Watching a canary do what he does
Using his noodle
Fisherman started to doodle
On a canvas for what it’s worth
Being independent...
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Categories:
dockside, art, bird, fishing, image, muse, song, yellow,
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Liberal Hierarchical Goodbye Construct
Absent deliberate intervention
vis a vis suicide,
supposed "natural" longevity of generic human
starring sallying forth primate ride
ding bareback across avast
broke back...
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Categories:
dockside, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, death,
Form:
Free verse
Oceans Await
OCEANS AWAIT
Away from the dockside and into the bay
Heading out to sea in this steel hulled ship
Powered by team, yet with masts and sail
A fast and safe journey is as the Holy Grail
Carrying passengers, cargo...
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Categories:
dockside, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
Torch Lake - Passing On the Torch
He walked up from the lake
Throwing open the door of the glorious day
Like a smiling OB-GYN snapping off his gloves
With a toolbox in hand
Delivered to my dad the good news.
“I’m certain this new ignition will...
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Categories:
dockside, boat, celebration, courage, family, jealousy, native american,
Form:
Free verse
Acrostic Man: a Collaboration With Ken Duddle
Form: Acrostic
Don’t walk by,pretend not to see
Outside in the cold is no place to be
Whistle to yourself,think glad it’s not me
No-one can escape their destiny.
No-one can prepare for all trials of life
One day it...
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Categories:
dockside, adventure, community,
Form:
Rhyme
Chinwag Pies
Chinwag Pies
A crowd gathers
Where the poor run wild,
Relentlessly taunting
An innocent child,
Scathing, scalding
Thieving eyes,
Scrimping, scraping
Chinwag pies.
Two a penny
For those that beg,
A clip round the ear
For...
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Categories:
dockside, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
A Common Whore
Just a common whore they said
Who rolled the drunken tars
As they staggered out from
The Dockside taverns and bars.
Lime Street, Liverpool was
Where she plied her trade.
Where her drunken bargains
Were very quickly made.
Transported to Australia
When she was...
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Categories:
dockside, england, history, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Pride Slays Advice
Stem the tide your pride rides
To a puerile pinnacle
In a vain belief it makes sensational strides
When like a locust your spiracle
Exhales carbon dioxide
To catalyze photosynthesis for red roses in your green garden
While your pride derides...
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Categories:
dockside, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Preparedness
Preparedness
By: Tom Wright
Feb. 1, 1998
Merely waiting
for your ship to come in
is not sufficient.
You must be dockside, prepared and
scanning the horizon.
Those who are content to wait,
life will pass by.
The prepared will always
cause something to happen.
The opportunity...
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Categories:
dockside, life,
Form:
Free verse
Sceilp Level
They were Lilly Whites from Kildare,
And Boggers from County Clare,
Herring Gutters from Donegal
And Dubliner Jackeens.
They were Goat Suckers, Slaneysiders,
Magpies and Rossies.
They were Kellys, and Murrays,
O’Carrols, and Moores,
They were Campbells, MacMurphys, and Dunns.
One claimed he’s...
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Categories:
dockside, america, history, ireland,
Form:
Lyric
To Sea
To Sea
I would like to think that
The big, white birds soaring
Over choppy waters
Or the way my camera captures
A straight, bold beam of light
Is a vision of sorts –
A gift from you,
To me.
This vision would say:
“Hey!
I’m...
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Categories:
dockside, childhood, death, introspection, life, loss, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
When the Pilot Arrives
the pilot arrives
When the world was big, and my ship left Trinidad just
as the sun set over the blue Caribbean and women, at the dockside waved goodbye forever, or perhaps not, if the ship...
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Categories:
dockside, 11th grade, absence, betrayal, blessing,
Form:
Blank verse
Postscript
...for Hart Crane - In Memoriam - (1899-1932)
Words of purpose, carved and struck,
as chipped from granite's cold confines,
fashioned into filigrees
that shocked and startled feebler minds.
The Bridge, that span of subtle...
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Categories:
dockside, tribute, writing, , In Memoriam,
Form:
Quatrain
Postscript
...for Hart Crane - In Memoriam - (1899-1932)
Words of purpose, carved and struck,
as chipped from granite's cold confines,
fashioned into filigrees
that shocked and startled feebler minds.
The Bridge, that span of subtle...
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Categories:
dockside, dedication, , In Memoriam,
Form:
Quatrain
Postscript
...for Hart Crane - In Memoriam - (1899-1932)
Words of purpose, carved and struck,
as chipped from granite's cold confines,
fashioned into filigrees
that shocked and startled feebler minds.
The Bridge, that span of subtle...
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Categories:
dockside, dedication, writing, , In Memoriam,
Form:
Quatrain
Postscript
...for Hart Crane - In Memoriam - (1899-1932)
Words of purpose, carved and struck,
as chipped from granite's cold confines,
fashioned into filigrees
that shocked and startled feebler minds.
The Bridge, that span of subtle...
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Categories:
dockside, writing, , In Memoriam,
Form:
Verse
Postscript
...for Hart Crane - In Memoriam - (1899-1932)
Words of purpose, carved and struck,
as chipped from granite's cold confines,
fashioned into filigrees
that shocked and startled feebler minds.
The Bridge, that span of subtle...
Read More
Categories:
dockside, writing, , In Memoriam,
Form:
Quatrain
His Peace
...for Hart Crane - In Memoriam - (1899-1932)
Words of purpose, carved and beaten,
chipped from granite's cold confines,
fashioned into filigrees
that shocked and startled simpler minds.
The Bridge, that span of subtle magic,
metaphor of time and space,
stretching skyward,...
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Categories:
dockside, deathin memoriam,
Form:
Quatrain
Postscript
...for Hart Crane - In Memoriam - (1899-1932)
Words of purpose, carved and struck,
as chipped from granite's cold confines,
fashioned into filigrees
that shocked and startled feebler minds.
The Bridge, that span of subtle...
Read More
Categories:
dockside, dedication, , In Memoriam,
Form:
Quatrain
Postscript
...for Hart Crane - In Memoriam - (1899-1932)
Words of purpose, carved and beaten,
chipped from granite's cold confines,
fashioned into filigrees
that shocked and startled feeble minds.
The Bridge, that span of subtle magic,
metaphor of time and space,
stretching...
Read More
Categories:
dockside, loss, sympathy, , In Memoriam,
Form:
Quatrain