Long Outboard Poems

Two, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas,
Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees, 
Francesco’s outboard boat heads out to Caribbean’s deeper blue.

Where sun burns softer gringo skin, but...

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My father was a devoted fly fisherman who couldn’t resist the almost masochistic urge to wake in the quiet predawn hours and stumble, blurry eyed with his loaded thermos out of the house.  He...

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Four palms, one taller, the other three measure the same.
Heavily anchored in sand, all are vertical climbers of this azure sky.
Eight new fronds per palm, the older ones neatly trimmed by man.
No cocoanuts anywhere to...

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Venice, Italy, is a crazy shamozzle of new and old 
Where junk, graffiti, decay, stunning beauty, 
     history and culture poverty and opulence, all reside side by side, bobbing. 
Water dominates...

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Copyright 2014 A.D., ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
By Thomas Lam Hsi Andress (TLH ANDRESS)
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This VERY SONG is the VERY REASON that I KEEP HOPING that LOVE WILL ONE DAY...'MAYBE'...FIND ME...as...

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Were going to the Florida Keys! Were going to Florida Keys!
As I mentioned we were on our way to the Florida Keys... 
it was my mother, father, my sisters and me the brother of the...

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He sat there in his fav'rite chair, a blanket 'cross his lap 
And covering his snow white hair was his old fishing cap. 
I knew he could not talk to me since suffering the stroke,...

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37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love...

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so there I was 
fishin just because
working I told her I be

she didn't know my where abouts
or me in's and me outs
bet her I'm home by 2 or 3

trolling a long
scratchin my ding dong
happy as...

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It’s taken care of.
A friend of ours
who owns property by the Ohio river
has agreed to make use of her pontoon boat,
to take my ashes, to scatter them.

I have been working toward this, making plans,
arranging for...

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The last few agonizing moments aboard the ill-fated Titanic,
Were no doubt filled with horror and unabated panic.
She slipped 'neath the waves to settle on the floor of the sea,
To create a watery grave for 1500...

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Pop was a devoted fly-fisherman who woke in the quiet predawn hours and stumbled, blurry-eyed out of the house with his loaded thermos in his hand.  He hoisted his flat-bottom boat on top of...

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Dangerous Encounter 
It was a June Saturday after dinner I walked along the docks 
and noticed a man I knew putting crates of beer on his boat that 
had an outboard motor. He lived on...

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Wind is swinging boat, it’s frail
on a shoulder of a wave,
Stranger’s bored in it, thoughts sail
full of laziness, they save
idleness, he wants no sailing
And he doesn’t want his oar,
Cares are hard and he is blaming
Scary...

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The Slight Light of the Moon
David J Walker

Everyone is in 
Everyone is done
Everyone 
under the sun 
is in the same boat

It’s a big boat
It’s a tugboat
It’s a lifeboat 
That won’t float  
On Solipsism’s alone...

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To those who have done prep

Prep up for break, hanging in morning dew
Made fast with sailing twine, awaiting dawn
Brass belaying pin holding halyard to
I glimpse across harbor, Third Fleet’s mowed lawn

My eyes upon OTC, I...

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Summer market is crowded,
I shall not be found missing.
Nothing like withered leaves
Or disappearing winter birds
But angels in swimming trunks
Pressing men to praise the posh.

In the shinning summer sun,
I shall ignite my motorised Ferrari bike, 
Take...

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Heah buddy, can you spare
a rhyme, a dime, the time
to care (how rare) if truth
be known or to tell a lie
about washing ton's cherry
cut down into sticks to build
a house on the prairie
where Georgie kisses...

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