Long Pilings Poems
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a sparkle, nascent -
oh, Dear Indulgence ...
desolate, obscure, I know you not, (and have known you not),
still, do I not know the glint there, in your eye? Aye, it abides
...
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Categories:
pilings, memory, metaphor, passion, romance, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Theater of Utter Charm Part 1
Irritatingly often unnecessarily compliant
to the whims of those about him
endlessly wordlessly wondering
about the many demented subjective qualities
of our ever present mammalian imperative via
a thought balloon filled with candy and bullets
that lingers menacingly overhead
announcing the death...
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Categories:
pilings, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Theater of Utter Charm Part 15
the inside attempting to outside
each with its own absurd shopping list
we are after all composite beings
clumps and aggregates and glomerations
made up from all the faces we have seen
all the people we have imagined to have...
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Categories:
pilings, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Ropes
The wind came down from the canyon with a quite heat
It was to his back as he faced the crashing waves
He watched the pelicans skimming the rolling surf
The sun warmed sand felt comforting beneath his...
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Categories:
pilings, death, family, life, house, family, family, house,
Form:
Free verse
The Ill-Fated Lighthouse
Author’s Introduction - A word about Minot’s Ledge Lighthouse:
The Minot’s Ledge lighthouse, built 1850, lying off the southeastern chop of
Boston Bay, was the first lighthouse built in the U. S. that was not...
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Categories:
pilings, history, people, sea, light, dark, dark, light,
Form:
Narrative
Stained Glass Pane
One day—
The sea will be my backyard
Every morning, standing upon the deck
Of the one called Going Numb
A “Greatest Dad” mug in one hand
My last vice burning orange in the other
I will watch the sun rise...
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Categories:
pilings, age,
Form:
Free verse
The Sea-Cook's Lover, Part Ii
...One night I asked who it was,
she said,”Just a man I used to know.”
She would never say more than that,
so I decided wisely to let it go.
But that night, like every other,
when midnight rolled around,
she...
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Categories:
pilings, loneliness, loss, lost love, love, nostalgia, ocean,
Form:
Narrative
Fever and Chills
Fever and Chills
History writes itself
invisible pens find surfaces unknown
private life
public life
fever and chills sleep together
heaving corrosive air
from colorless lungs
hearing but their own moans
their own cries of ecstasy
how loud
how soft
From boardroom
to bedroom
clinging to manufactured essence
flesh bleeds...
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Categories:
pilings, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Little Island
sigh …
a lifetime ago
I breathed here, vital -
dangled my topsiders over these
pier stones and pilings
tempting the dark leviathans
that swam beneath the bloated
August moon, reflected …
kissing menthols like careless lovers
concerned only with the moment (hoping)
and a...
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Categories:
pilings, memory, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
The Bridge At Argenteuil - With Apologies To Claude Monet
I could've gone to Holland. I could've gone to Spain.
I could've gone to Denmark. I could've gone insane,
But instead I came here, where the river mirrors life
In a fractured, dream-like way on this brilliant summer...
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Categories:
pilings, art, break up, loneliness,
Form:
Lyric
The Linda-Marie
The Linda-Marie
I venture on down to the harbor, smelling the salt of the sea
Where waiting in anticipation is my sloop the Linda-Marie
In silence she sits while I board her, and cast her lines aside
Like a...
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Categories:
pilings, sea, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
Avoiding the Flames
You are in your blue period -
turquoise swimsuit, buoyant in azure.
Behind your shoulder,
Brighton West Pier,
A snap taken at an amateurish angle,
you’re diving sideways into the waves,
the gaily painted structure
tumbling after you.
A day later, the pier...
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Categories:
pilings, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Copper Penny
A COPPER PENNY
The significance of a copper penny…
It’s part of our heritage
Being raised in the copper mining area
Of Ruth, Nevada
Fathers and brothers worked for
The Kennecott Copper Mining Corporation
Both abhorred and sacrificed for
It was a job
The...
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Categories:
pilings, blessing, cheer up, future, lost,
Form:
Free verse
under the pier 1 -
I didn't mean it ...
you were everything, didn't you know??
didn't I show you in a thousand little ways?
...
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Categories:
pilings, loss, lost love, moon, night, soulmate, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Foggy Night
FOGGY NIGHT ©
The white orb, saturated with
tidal flows, peers through the
veil.
A ghost ship slips up the fog
laden channel.
Night gulls. sing with strident cries
fog seeps in, the tide rolls...
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Categories:
pilings, metaphor, moon, night, sea, water,
Form:
Free verse
Drifting Away
Drifting Away
All alone one might think they stand in muddy water unclear
Now feeling like a drowned rat in time and not utter a peep,
Where all at once there might have been a wooden pier
Like a...
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Categories:
pilings, emotions, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
My Ode To the Netherlands
The iridescent raven perched upon pilings
By just one lake in Friesland's beautiful wetland outings
His golden beak and orange legs with claws set off
Against black feathers that glisten and are a rain runoff
Carefully he watches the...
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Categories:
pilings, nature,
Form:
Couplet
To Have Loved Mary
Today is Sunday and I'm going to the ocean
or maybe not. Definitely not doing the laundry
or maybe I will. Moss and even a small tree
grow in the rotten stubs of the pier pilings.
The city is...
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Categories:
pilings, city, love, ocean, philosophy, prayer, sexy, water,
Form:
Verse
Nauti 'N Nice
No penance need be paid by the insular artisan
admonished for seeking an oral platinum quota.
Under furlough! Tuck their perfume in a bureau,
then intermittently release the poise to up-start
inferiority complexes who'll quote of the literati,
and...
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Categories:
pilings, art,
Form:
Narrative