Long Longboats Poems

This poem was inspired by the interviews by Earl K. Pollon and S. S. Matheson conducted with native Sekanni peoples who were negatively effected by the flooding of their communal homelands by the building of...

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A GLIMPSE OF PARADISE

PARADISE IS CALM AND PEACEFUL
A PLACE THAT HAS NO PAIN
SADNESS HAS NO FACE HERE
EVIL HAS NO GAIN

 STANDING ON A SHADED HILL
THE TREES ARE BRIGHT AND BOLD
COLORS DANCING IN THE AIR
TOO MANY...

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I am a young man, to Nantucket I've traveled
never before have I been out to Sea,
here in the Harbor, I've spotted the Pequod
I knew then and there, that ship was for me,

Ishmael is my name,I...

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~ In memory of Herman Melville, who lived a similar darkness to my own ~

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The day star hisses,
  ...

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Sat all alone beside that muttering shoreline he busied 
      Himself, diligently, and sewed.                ...

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M anors towering
Over the horizon
Western skies ablazon
With majesty possessing.

E arth trodden soil
Bearing feet of noble birth
Tramping blades of aged turf,
Hearts destined to inner turmoil.

D anger lurking in
Shadows of the silent souls:
Smoldering, burning coals
Leaving scares of...

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My father to me when i was young
What you tell me must have been fun

It was more than that
I was actually there
My first see
A Plesiosaur

Swimming in pods
A family of three
New to my world
Fancy free

I slept...

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From the North, they came in wooden longboats,
to the monastery of Lindisfarne. A Kingdom of Northern Brine  
to plunder the church and steal its gold.
The priests had their blood splattered too ill-equipped to fight
as...

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Citizens Are

By the numbers, 
1,2,3... count them all you see. 
From here and there and everywhere, 
we are one. 

America. 
The land of plenty. 
But what does that mean? 
There is a story, 
and a...

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One day herding my animals
The other, tending our crop
Strangers out of the distance
To them, we knew not
 
The colour of our skin
Is with these distant men
On arrival at my village
We are herded into a pen
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Arrogant autocratic Ahab
Sails set seaward
Heartless harpoon high
 
Wind wracked Waves
Revenge rage regret
Wretched white whale
 
Opaque Ocean oblivious
Deep dark dangerous
Titanic terrors traversing
 
Captain callous cold
Blood bought bonds
Obsidian oaths ordured  
 
Foreboding fears fester
Sacrosanct silent seas
Motionless...

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The tempest rages, tossing longboats high -
It’s better than a ‘straw death’ way to die.
But is the cause the writhing Midgard snake?
Are Aegir and his Maidens wide awake?
Is Aegir lurking, planning a surprise,
To clutch at...

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VIKINGS

Erik  went east  to Yamal peninsula’s spring  
For Russian hides and terrifying antlers
From the world’s biggest  reindeer herd,
In April  crossing the thawing  Ob River, 
Safe from predators : ...

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4th march 2012,by : Sashi.Prabhu ( zeauoxian)

Blue carpet waves,
White foam gyrates.
Cool breeze blowing,
Beaming sun growing.

Low flying crows,
Fishing nets throws,
Slumbering dog packs,
Dry nets on wooden racks.

Lone fisherman rows,
Sea gulls numbers grows,
Around water dripping nets,
Pelagic fish they...

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Finally by the blood of swordsmen
They reach the mystic shore
Torn by battle each parched tongue
Corrupts it’s enemy once more

Flesh and spirit torn then stained
In legend myth and tale
Blew them, this final war
Llyr upon his sail

Bleached...

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Blue carpet waves,
White foam gyrates.
Cool breeze blowing,
Beaming sun growing.

Low flying crows,
Fishing nets throws,
Slumbering dog packs,
Dry nets on wooden racks.

Lone fisherman rows,
Sea gulls numbers grows,
Around water dripping nets,
Pelagic fish they ferret.

Silver silky waves,
Low flying eagles braves,
Sand...

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