Long Scow Poems

Film Noir

By the lampost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from...

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Film Noir

By the lamppost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from...

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‘An interesting guy I think,’
People might say on meeting you for the first time,
Oh yes, I’ve come to know you too well.
Thank God for the Internet,
Although there are bodies in your wake,
And stench follows you...

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You Know Who You Are! 

I know that you probably know who you are...
Abusers who prey on women (or men) .
Your aberrance mostly extends to the weak, 
Your generosity just serves other's pain
And, of course,...

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They said she sails forever the seas off Cape Horn:
See her and wish to God you never was born. 
Laugh if you wish but  there’s  countless bones  
And hulls been sent to...

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https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=9tWlUN0pFp4
DORA'S CURSE
by Don Johnson Queensland, Australia

        What was that curse thou did rehearse, just ye and me and him? 
        ...

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Fess up! You demonic influx of tolerance on the balcony of desire! 
A pang is felt in a faint smile of an orphan that awakens senses.
I speak the prescriptions of the heart, provoking and extravagant,
While...

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Today is not your powerful
It's so bitter sad yet true
Your word isn't an emotion anymore 
Creature of habit living blue
Despising what is necessary
And accept what you call the norm 
Wanting a way to hide out...

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She was a tough old lady with a permanently etched scow 
Yep, with old misses Sadie you did not want to run a foul
Sitting out in her chair watching everyone who went by
Just the way...

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A Fisherman’s Tale


Out o’gloom, her pale siege comes to menace our humble dwell
I look to celeste fix, yet no stark smile to traverse me
So I grip my girl, now graceful, as she slides in churn...

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the wharf was teeming
black and white,
the gulls were keening
in their flight
  round and round
the fishing scow
the old man scowled
his heavy brow
  forty years before the mast
and now today would be his last
the smell...

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YOU ARE HERE....
YOU ARE THERE....
WHY THOU EVERYWHERE?

NO EARS....NO EYES....STILL SO MUCH PRIDE...

IT SAID IN A VOICE”IT’S BECAUSE I LOVE THOU.”
“I AM SENT TO PROTECT YOU BU THR BLOOD OF YOUR SCROW”

I SAID:”BUT YOU DON’T”
THE VOICE...

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ON    THE    BEACH


As a prisoner misses the cell after countless years inside
Or a near-death experience reappears in dreams 
Quelled feelings come and go like the tide
Experience long gone still...

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6 degrees but it feels like minus eight
Dressed like children swaddled to meet the bus
Walking beside a quiet soothing sea
Face is warmed by the sun that's coming up

Seagulls pick and skip over lapping waves 
Sea-glass...

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I was drinkin' wine that night in Mike's bar,
she was cozied close to me in side booth.
Me ship, anchored quarter league not so far,
lay in deep Frisco fog mate, that's whole truth.
I was havin' bloomin'...

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I was drinkin’ wine that night in Mike’s bar,
She was cozied close to me in side booth
Me ship, anchored quarter league not so far,
lay in deep Frisco fog mate, that’s whole truth.
I was havin’ bloomin’...

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A Wife Can Elevate Life
Get In with a Bad Crowd,
A Wife May Talk Sense Into You,
Or Push Your Ego To Be Loud,
On Ben Pelet's Wife To The Rescue,
Korach Listened As His Mate Howled,
Result, Earth's Gaping...

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Roiling,Roiling,under me
my coils are silver as the sea.
You look ,you look ,
to capture me....
Leviathan !
I shall be free!

Pitiful and weak art thou
sailing in thy tiny scow
Blustering upon the bow,
seek to capture me

Tempest tossed and thrown...

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The Scow

Unsteady on the bow he stands
As waves wash o're the deck
Upon "The Scow" is heard...ALL HANDS
To help avert a wreck. 

Each night the stars convey our path
To south seas we are bound...
But tempted we,...

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The Bough

My pretty lady, how art thou?
My eyes are glued to thy picture now
And I can't help but wonder how
Thy lips I'll kiss someday, if thou would allow.

Many a king, at your beauty would bow
Offer...

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