Long Sailor Poems
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I once heard a warning from a sailor:
"Don't look at the ocean at night—the darkness offers an escape."
I wonder if it is the same for a soldier staring down a gun barrel.
As they run through dark trenches, fleeing death,does that cold metal cylinder promise a release?
An end to fear.The death of anger.
Or a quiet peace brought to a desolate land.
Many wonder, staring straight into that deep ocean of unforgiving quiet.
But peace demands a price in an empty country.
It means
a mother you will never see,
a wife you will never love,
a child you will never guide—
only eyes wandering a horizon that never ends.
But the sailor never taught me what remains unseen:
the sea always stares back.
It cannot feel your agonizing rage.
It does not share your lonely sadness.
It has no thought of family or friends.
Instead, it only waits for you to jump, and find your peace.
Cupid tapped my sailor on the shoulder,
“That one…” he pointed at me.
He aimed at me, sent the sailor’s seabag too -
we shoot to the top of Everest
with all its dangers.
We tumble and climb, tumble and climb
until at last we are forever in each other’s grasp.
My sailor proposed too fast with a golden ring.
I accepted after he begged for two weeks.
Mind over matter was defeated by head over heels.
I had been shy. If we had met earlier we might have passed by
each other but the playing field was all new. There was adventure
in his soul and longing in my heart to soar to new heights.
The sailor’s seabag was heavy with his past
but he found love and loves (children and grands)
and a God that was bigger than everything.
Tulips delirious dance, twelve with big fat leaves. Tulips alive
with life not death. Roses hold beauty but tulips last.
A sailor’s ring surrounds my finger. Ebon-etched leaves, unique.
Cupid’s bow in shadowbox - a little worn and bent in our heart shape.
2/7/2021
Verse 1
I’ll play you a tune
That’s what I do
I’ll write you a song
Only meant for two
Sing such soft lyrics
And feel every line
Take your heart places
Until you are mine
Verse 2
Dream of tomorrow
Words become flesh
Like lovers in spring
New aromas refresh
Arms wrapped around
That sweet body divine
Touch, oh the thought
Let’s surrender to sublime
Verse 3
I’ll make you believe
Our names in the sand
Such a sexy island girl
Needs a strong sailor man
I’ll cast away the pain
Of ghosts from your past
This kiss says I’m staying
No more shadows from the past
Chorus
I’ll play you a tune
That’s what I do
I’ll write you a song
Only meant for two
Sing such soft lyrics
And feel every line
Take your heart places
Until you are mine
Verse 4
My voice like a breeze
Can be felt on your heart
Gentle whispers that heal
Hope renews, fear departs
Let me sing you to sleep
Sweet girl, dream of me
I pray this wish comes true
Be more than fantasy
Chorus
I’ll play you a tune
That’s what I do
I’ll write you a song
Only meant for two
Sing such soft lyrics
And feel every line
Take your heart places
Until you are mine
I feel the deep breath that waits for soft dawn
With eyes towards the twilight of morning's rise
They lay in comfort as a nurtured fawn
And welcome mists of light from night's demise
Purple skies of dawn come with a warning
Sailor's call changing red before a storm
Lucid raindrops fall from clouds adorning
For this day of beauty, I will not mourn
Chasm of sky and I will merge as one
To find joy in another day of breath
I'll fly with soulful wings beneath the sun
And live a peaceful life before my death
Each dawn the sunrise wears a colored veil
To my spirit, this is the Holy Grail
2/14/18 contest Sunrise and Sunset
note...sailor's warning
red at night sailor's delight
red in the morning, sailor take warning
purple turns red before the dawn
She is hurt,
Time and time again tears of muddy rain roar out of her eyes,
She is hurt,
Love, pain, misery all of the wierd crazy facts fell on her,
She is doomed, further away she is like a sailor sailing towards an iceberg,
Wipe her eyes, no difference is made,
He existed once upon a time, his existence is dead, his existence trailed away,
The good, the bad, he was a combination of both,
He made her feel it all, and she breathed it all in,
Exasperated she was,
He wanted more of what he couldn't have,
She couldn't give him more than she already gave,
He drained her very soul out, sucking the life out of her, battery drained,
But now she's found a lover she can't live without,
A lover that makes her shiver without him,
Sweaty palms, irregular migraines a combination of both,
She was taken away, sweet dreams my beloved,
Let the stars twinkle above your head,
Listen to the distant echos
He led her to her death,
Listen to the distant echoes,
She is gone and never coming back.
Steps his foot out of the door with granny’s anointed words
if blessings were edible, he’d have been fatter than North America
faces the day’s task with immunity to the heat of the sun
dines with the wild to keep the oil running
the quest for a better tomorrow begs for a step further
a bright mind, a weary heart, a bunch of hard nails
and strained muscles still yet deserving of any praise
one added day and his large hope is a chronic liar
for an upgrade, his life is becoming an outlay.
After the rigorous relay,
the day ends in a sleep commenced through deep thoughts
the alarm rings at dawn, no fresh start, the cycle continues
he’s sunk in this ocean until a miracle sailor comes through.
In a 40 tonne steal vessel
You'd think your safe
But the waves are hassle
Higher than the empire state
Tossing us around,
Like a childs play thing
Up high then suddenly down
Left to right like a swing
Hanging on to a table
With my head full of lumps
Not feeling very stable
Getting battered by loose junk
I want to go home now
It's been long enough
I'm cold, scared and half drowned
Seawater covering all of us
Never change your ships name
Was a scream I heard
The captains to blame
The oceans proving the curse
I'm too young to die
And not in this way
I cannot tell a lie
Save me i pray
Blind Date
Lonely for so long now
so excited I can't wait!
My best friend had set me up
with someone on a date.
I showed up a little early
to pick up this date of mine.
I'd seen her face before
in a flick called Frankenstein.
She said she liked my suit and tie
I said I had a tailor.
She got a run in her panty hose
and started cussing like a sailor.
Arriving at the restaurant
where my best friend I spied.
He was standing in a corner
where he laughed so hard he cried.
She ordered the whole menu
she maxed out my credit card.
Suddenly I realized
life alone ain't quite so hard.
Finally I slipped away
and split out the back door.
I got myself a new best friend
and I don't date no more.
May 4th 2015
Cable news all morning,
Sailor take warning.
Cable news all night,
Sailor take fright.
When voices threaten menace,
Spreading rumors in the gloom,
I ease those bleak acoustics
With light in a quiet room.
Cable news and coffee,
Sailor go awfully.
Cable news and wine,
Sailor go blind.
When worry hints at panic,
As all chaos is abloom,
I quell the insurrection
With light in a quiet room.
Cable news on always,
Sailors’ malaise.
Cable news on mute,
Sailors salute.
When demons peddle darkness,
Screeching prophecies of doom,
I counteract the racket
With light in a quiet room.
I once was a farmer
I worked the land
I reaped the corn
With a scythe in my hand
I ploughed my furrow
I sowed my seed
I grew my crops
My family to feed
One day hot and thirsty
With the sun going down
I went for to drink
At the alehouse in town
As I was a drinking
There at the Inn
Without any warning
The press gang came in
So I was taken
I was taken so fast
And told that my future
Was before the mast
So in my fields
I no longer plough
Instead the wide ocean
I must plough now
From hauling on ropes
My hands are all torn
Sometimes I wish
I had never been born
Our captains a hard man
If one of us fails
He'll have us flogged
With a cat o' nine tails
When I climb the rigging
I oft times will find
I think of the family
That I left behind
One day I'll jump ship
And I'll stay on shore
I'll serve the Kings navy
Never no more
I'll return to my loved ones
I'll go back to the land
Once more I will reap
With my scythe in my hand
I've sailed the wide oceans
Seen Paris and Rome
But nothing compares
With my humble home
Denis Briggs