Long Galleon Poems

PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met...

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Believe me,
                                 ...

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In another dream I found myself on Captain Jesus' noble galleon.
"What's the matter little one?" Jesus asked me as He stood beside me.
"I try to fit in down here but I don't feel like I...

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The crashing waves hit the bow, as we cut through waters deep.
Clasped in irons that cut the skin; forged in the fires that never sleep.

The desert was dry, the sun beat down, I am free...

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On the south-western side of the old mission school,
on the corner of 1st,  where the blackberries grew
a field claimed by children, was crosshatched with tracks
It was riddled by gophers and, nettled with foxtails
and youthful...

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“Abandon ship and from her flee
Better her than all be lost to sea.”
“First Mate, be rendered silent,” is the captain’s plea
“Dear crew, I beg, depart not, stay along with me.”

But Admiral calls from ships numbered...

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Hair caressing my face 
                              ...

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Elongated dazzling radiance cast abeam
sensational blinding brilliance
thru eyelids cast agleam
buoyed upon soundcloud airstream
entire corporeal complex edifice

rocked upon gently
shimmering weightless as moon beam
metaphorically floats yours truly
autonomic kickstarting process
since... flagellation enabled conception
circulating, distributing, enervating...

dna chromosomal genetic
data packets...

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Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 5


There washed ashore the Devil’s Whore,
Who had three times been paid,
Preserved through Sin and worshippin’
Beelzebub and the grave.

With many a cheer he’d drunk all our beer,
He’d finished...

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Poem 9/11

Believe me,
Just watching my TV
News Flash!! Skyjack! 
New York City Centre,Jet Crash. 
Check that.
News Call,Broadcast stall. 
Drop the headlines!! 
This is the new line 
Look up on the Skyline   
Flash,Bash,Crash 
Right on...

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When gazing Beta Persei,
a star with many ghoulish names, 
be wary of a winking eye,
for fluctuating flames
belie its evil aims. 

Ancient mariners would watch with dread
and chant their prayers out loud,
when that “Eye in Medusa’s...

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The Little Known History of the Cruller And It's Impact On Naval Warfare"

No mere pastry, the humble cruller...
As you will soon see...
But a remarkable item,
Most important to history...

It started on a Spanish Galleon
In the thirteenth...

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The days are long and unproud, they brood...
  and please not the weary soul wearying in its wake;
  when gnashing snow and rain bite
  cold and bitter nights ---
  smite the...

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"There is one more thing I want to show you my girl
so that your joy may be even more complete yet," said
Jesus with a twinkle in his eyes.
Once again I was awake inside of dreamland....

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Red Beard laughed at this lad
Stumbled on the wrong ship he had

Stowing away on a pirate vessel 
Turned himself in not even a wrestle

Stout young lad must be at least ten
He wasn’t sure of the...

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The sails billow as they catch the wind
White crested waves put our ship a sway
To portside ye mates and scalawags
The merchant's ship shall be our prey

Fly their country flag the captain yells
So at twilight they...

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A eulogy on the car radio:
he was a good friend to all.

It begins to rain.

On the road an opossum family,
bodies strewn
according to size and age,
some pancaked, some
playing dead forever.

A lobster gave up its existence
for me,
was...

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The Minstrel
Sweet opiate flavour from the minstrel’s voice,
Will lure the depth of emotion to waft allure.
This same melody will strip the kingdoms astir.
When the singer decides to singe our creases in sinuous,
The last time you...

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THE DEEP OCEAN OF THE MIND


The warm pebbles touch  my foot,  my sole,
In the turbulent shallows of tide  and wave.
My waking  self feels the  moon and sun pull.

And  hidden...

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Just look at that scary house
And those quarreling cat and mouse,
The  bats are flying over those gusty tree
And the moon is like a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy sea,
Witches are flying in the air
And...

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As we approach a certain age 
Before the end draws nigh
Afore my knees give up the ghost
Or bunions stop me climbing high

When all I eat is jam on toast
Now is it time to make the...

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"I wear a mask so people won't ask, 'Why are you still grieving?'  It's because I want to go on believing that I'll be with my loved ones once more."  Quote by poem's...

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Beneath the silent, cloudless skies
The Spanish Galleon swiftly glides,
For the Spanish Queen Isabella, in distant lands,
Its mighty mast’s unfurled by strong and sturdy hands.

She swiftly sails through  churning tides.
Crashing waves reveal its mighty rage...

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Captain Lamas and four other men ascend towards the sky 
Took off from their base a Florida trace of ship being lost on first sight
In Leather Neck brace and skyward race marlboroughs men alight 
This...

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I saw a ghostly galleon as it sailed under a sailor’s moon.
               The night was a ribbon of darkness, drawing a...

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