Long Flagship Poems

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The First Thanksgiving, September 3, 1578

The First Thanksgiving (Sept. 3, 1578)

The shortest distance to Cathay 1
(Land of riches: silks, teas and spices)
Lay to the north to the South Sea. 2
Didn’t Barlow tell the King, 3
Was reserved for England.

The routes ‘round...

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Categories: flagship, education, history, holiday, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day, voyage,
Form: Verse


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Four paths of tantra trika

1) Preamble

As breath’s created, sustained and destroyed,
we see trika, threefold aspect at play
through life, where we are by ego decoyed,
until we choose to make love our mainstay.
Beyond religions, scriptures and folklore,
let’s explore the direct path...

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Categories: flagship, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
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Whither the Fates Carry

Whither the Fates Carry

Anchors aweigh in 1609, Anno Domini!
A convoy of ships laden with cargo set sail
And departed Plymouth harbour to cross the Atlantic
For Jamestown, Virginia, in the New World.

But a hurricane wreaked havoc in...

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Categories: flagship, fate, history, ocean, storm,
Form: Verse
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Battle of Pigeon-Way

The days were getting long, and the Fourth of July was coming up, soon.
With the City Park clean, a better raise might come, so very long over due.
The Sheriff of Crazyland was cleaning pigeon poo,...

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Categories: flagship, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
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Putin's Great Blunder

Putin said he wouldn't invade, but then he's known for his lies
So when he sent in his murdering scum, it came as no surprise 
It will go down in the annals of history, as Putin's...

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Categories: flagship, america, death, war,
Form: Rhyme


October Seventeenth Ninety Sixty One

October seventeenth ninety sixty one ...

Born sixty one years ago,
the follow poem from your bro
transmitted courtesy flagship
named Jacques-Yves Cousteau
constituting countless ones and zeroes
instantaneously traversing cyberspace
as packeted, framed dataflow
binary digits bit of information
to acknowledge when
thee transitioned...

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Categories: flagship, absence, adventure, anniversary, birthday, endurance, family, hello,
Form: Rhyme
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SS Southern Cross - the Old Lady of the Sea

   Built in a Belfast shipyard
 for Shaw Savill ‘n Albion Line.
   On her flagstaff wind ‘n lee
 flew the Southern Cross ensign,
   down a slipway to the sea
...

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Categories: flagship, childhood, voyage,
Form: Rhyme

The Tenure Star

It all started when I took a typing test
I did 95 words per minute and made two errors
The requirement was 50 or more words
Human Resources was impressed and set up the Department interview
It was my...

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Categories: flagship, career, celebration, clothes, dedication, fashion, june, me,
Form: Rhyme

The Night Clerk

The night air with owls cry invitation of canopies of writers to write the 
Days using the night pen jolting candle to the candidates aspiring to arson 
night. The pans and pots exchanging strong actions...

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Categories: flagship, beauty, daffodils, longing, solitude, sorrow, , Lullaby,
Form: Acrostic
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MIRACLES WITHIN MIRACLES

My realization of Miracle on 34th Street that came to life
My years working for Macy’s Corporate at the Flagship Herald Square Tower
It was the Macy’s and Gimbel’s competitive era
The miracle started with Macy’s was planning...

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Categories: flagship, america, betrayal, business, conflict, fashion, integrity, passion,
Form: Free verse

Relationship Epidemic (Outlook)

As I pick up where I left off from the Intro
I bring you the Outlook as I peer through relationships like a window
The chance of seeing real love is narrow
It seems Cupid doesn't know where...

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Categories: flagship, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, love, peopleworld, age, age, love,
Form: Rhyme
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My Captain

I watched him fly a kite. 
Dipping, diving turning, swirling
And when it soared, I saw his face, 
Filling with delight!
He spent his afternoons flying 
His evenings fixing.
Battered, broken and torn
From trees and wash lines he...

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Categories: flagship, 5th grade, adventure, childhood, farewell, flying, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme

Mother's Day Parade

You can feel them move through streets
Emblazoned with sirens' primary colors,
A swatch of fjord's colonial flagship hues
Left to slap in the wind of reorderd forms
Until sheared into confetti strips. Scripts 
Writ into a code are...

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Categories: flagship, absence, addiction, america,
Form: Blank verse

Lost and Found

Lost And Found

With the availability of the internet , you tube and what have you on the internet.. 
Here’s a tribute to a classic tale in The Twilight Zone, viewable on the internet..

With its rich...

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Categories: flagship, adventure, destiny, forgiveness, imagination, memory, romantic,
Form: Narrative

The Synchronicity Song

Jung coined the term ‘synchronicity’,
Never really thought it applied to me.
Somebody crazy, maybe? Not me!
Coincidence they’ll have you believe.

Each segment is a memory 
Brought through the veil by synchronicity. 
Disparate pieces woven in this tapestry
To...

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Categories: flagship, destiny, mystery, visionary,
Form: Rhyme

You played Dylan a song

You.played Dylan a song

Is it me or is it you
They buried whats true
Whats life mean to you
Did you turn your back to mother nature
Discovered the beauty with all its order amongst disorder
A hero a pair...

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Categories: flagship, betrayal, nature, paradise, september,
Form: Free verse

I Heard Tell


Rumors flew
faster than kindling lit 
Pieces of half-truth and falsehood,
pure self-interest mixed
Vex message sent ashore by a ghost face snitch

I heard tell of some bad news,
some good ol’ boys
spreading the combustible fear colorfully

Saying hide the...

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Categories: flagship, allusion, dark, fear, symbolism,
Form: Dramatic Verse

We English Know Aren'T Poets

On the Beeb this morning, on the flagship radio news show, that the grocer's daughter

always listened to but didn't like at all, the National Poet of 'Land of Song' sang the 

praises of an American...

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© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flagship, political, red,
Form: Free verse

Giocante

The boy stood on the burning deck
arms akimbo legs a'brace
while cannon balls rolled above and beyond
'twas the greatest challenge he had yet to face
as pouring oil on troubled waters
they who only stand and wait also...

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Categories: flagship, child, french, history, sea, war, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Giocante 1788-1798

The boy stood on the burning deck
arms akimbo legs a'brace
while cannon balls rolled above and beyond
'twas the greatest challenge he had yet to face
as pouring oil on troubled waters
they who only stand and wait also...

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Categories: flagship, boy, child, conflict, courage, history, voyage, war,
Form: Rhyme
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Charm-Laden February

Velvet heart romantics sensual bounce, 
embolden relish despite an North Pole 
shiver amid the snowfall prism awning. 
Love-in-a-mist, synonym on damp Earth 
ground clay akin to scented daybreak
usher sown wistfully underneath a 
picturesque garden card...

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Categories: flagship, art, beautiful, beauty, bird, birth, celebration, february,
Form: Imagism
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God Search

Who do we search for, in this wilderness
Oh weary lama, there is no one here
That that is, is just ourself as oneness
Known when we choose to hear by inner ear
As magnetism each pore of form...

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Categories: flagship, god,
Form: Ballade
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Grace and Solitude In God's Presence

Celestial rays indeed blaze midst eternal grace*… 
Oh, they brace my vital days along spiritual life’s race
bringing revival sways during faith-filled upheaval praise
while against trial, my soul prays, devoid of denial-trace.

Around Christ’s fellowship light glows...

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Categories: flagship, blessing, christian, devotion, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Tribute To Horatio Nelson

Thou 
great 
son 
of 
the 
land!

Salute! 
Salute!! 
We 
Salute 
thee!!!
An 
unwavering 
patriot, 
undaunted 
mountain.
British 
admiral 
and 
nava 
hero.
Toulon 
submitted 
to 
thy 
naval 
prowess.
At 
Calvi,thy 
right 
eye 
was 
obliterated,thou 
was 
not 
shaken.
Thy 
prominient 
role 
led 
to...

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Categories: flagship, tribute
Form: Elegy
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Touched by Holy Spirit

Encased in feeble form, doomed one day to die,
words penned in holy books offered no solace
and prayers that I muttered, quelled not heart’s sigh,
so exhausted being unable to lace
the truth of life, I deemed everything...

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Categories: flagship, joy, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
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