Long Scurvy Poems
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The Drummer
1
The drummer beats slowly, the drummer beats loud
as he beats of humanity wrapped in a shroud.
Well he beats of the rape and the killing of war
and the mind mangling sorrow we blithely ignore
and...
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Categories:
scurvy, freedom, history, humanity, peace, society, strength, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Heave Ho and Yo Ho Ho
There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
till Death its message sends.
They built a...
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Categories:
scurvy, adventure, funny, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
A Fisherman's Soul
Mossy vines served as camouflage for a d
...
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Categories:
scurvy, child, death, fishing, loss,
Form:
Narrative
PIRATE PETE
Pirate Pete
Pirate Pete sails his ship
Across the seven seas,
He`ll plunder loot and pillage
And bring you to your knees.
His fearsome ship the Mary Jane
Named after both his wives,
Their figure heads adorn the bow
To protect the sailors...
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Categories:
scurvy, adventure, boat, fantasy, fun, imagination, leadership,
Form:
Rhyme
If You Were God
Walking a mile in God's shoes,
You’d have the blues,
With humanity, the bad news,
If you were God, from above, writing love,...............................................(1 John 4:8 &16)
To a blinded mind, in time, line,
How would you say a light, to...
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Categories:
scurvy, inspirational, loveheart, body, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
Sargasso
Sargasso
..by D Johnson
Fourteen days adrift time slowly slipped
on the good ship Cavalier
Becalmed, morose, no water they sipped
drank rum to calm their fear
The fog was thick o'er water and ship
On the...
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Categories:
scurvy, angstdeath, old, sea, water, day, death, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Raising the Dead
the other day it occurred to me
while i sat there in the back of a police cruiser
i have just been arrested for being concerned about the environmental health
of over 800 people
I then started to realise
looking...
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Categories:
scurvy, inspirational, introspection, warlife, people, life, people, society,
Form:
Free verse
Six Men Dead - Part 1
© 2011 (by Jim Sularz)
(The true story of Frank Eaton – AKA “Pistol Pete”)
At the headwaters of the Red Woods Branch,
near a gentle slope on a dusty trail.
On an iron gate, at the Twin Mounds...
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Categories:
scurvy, history,
Form:
Ballad
Anchors Aweigh
Anchors Aweigh...
destination unknown
for this Earthling
stardate: February 26th, 2022
At sea since time immemorial
I relish being alone
upon oceanic expanse
yours truly doth bemoan
me gal Sal (one among
numerous female confidantes),
no matter, she easily
mistaken as a crone
magical powers keep
her manning...
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Categories:
scurvy, 6th grade, adventure, america, atheist, courage, deep,
Form:
Rhyme
Thru Maritime Miles 2-Reflection
In spite of the way I was doomed in the past
I might have resumed all my duties at last
The ship captain's daughter who killed for a lark
Was tossed overboard in the path of a shark...
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Categories:
scurvy, adventure, nonsense, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
Vital Man-Jesus Vitamin Jesus
there are two many vitamins, out there yah!
Enriching supplements;
Some of them are even good for you and natural;
You need vitamin A E C D and U;
Vitamin
Vitamin
A-for the eyes and human body growth
E- for sight increase...
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Categories:
scurvy, analogy, christian, confidence, health, how i feel,
Form:
Ballad
Smells Like Government
Rancid lemon rope squeeze
around a rotten tomato neck tie,
crooked odor bow hanging out of place
Acid reflux raisin tax bleed;
dripping spoiled, milquetoast lies
out a sour-twisted, prune puckered face
Tart tongue
sulfur speak disorderly,
dirty saliva fingers in...
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Categories:
scurvy, corruption, satire, truth, word play,
Form:
Burlesque
Anchors Aweigh Destination Unknown
Anchors Aweigh...Destination Unknown
Weather beaten cap'n,
and watertight bewitched craft
time tested since maiden voyage
(circumnavigating the globe
back in the day
of my youth),
I ranked tough as a pitbull,
...
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Categories:
scurvy, absence, adventure, allegory, beautiful, courage, dark, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
Wut Up Miss Queen
How have you been, it's ok to tella
Explorer of the sea, like me can't you see
That Brooks and Paris need some money
Please support our trip to the far east
On the search for gold, spices, and...
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Categories:
scurvy, adventure, columbus day, high school, humorous, rap,
Form:
Rhyme
Whaling Ship Captain's Lover Part 2
WHALING SHIP CAPTAIN’S LOVER
(Part 2 of 3)
Now Jorgie was a fierce one
Widowed ‘fore she wed
The object of her passion
A Sea man lost and dead
Jorgie had a small lad
Swaddled piece of sun
And her lovers...
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Categories:
scurvy, love, class, lost, wife, class, lost, cousin,
Form:
Ballad
A Mandrake's Gesture: Vol. Iii
- - - -
To the gardens. . . of celebration!
- - - -
As the birds chirped,
the sunlit golden,
the merry cries of
glee, for upon this
day a proclamation
of love ever-after. Though
ne'er yet had the
splendor...
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Categories:
scurvy, life, loss, lost love, love, passion, sad,
Form:
Epic
Born To the Sea
Born to the sea
Mind of water, flowing thoughts;
The currents beneath your words could change us all.
River heart, born to the sea;
The solace we seek waves to you and to me.
Join me on this voyage, over...
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Categories:
scurvy, adventure, devotion, drink, people, voyage, water, wind,
Form:
I do not know?
Under Currents
The ocean churns, deep in the bowels of its great stomach
A scurvy, a barnacle, a flag flung high amast
From deep, deep down inside, below pressure boiling
Bones exploding, windpipes constricting
Where no human soul should...
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Categories:
scurvy, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Shadow Play
‘Twas the Night before the day of Halloween’s Eve
The air was cold and the wind was mean
And on it traveled the fairest soliloquy
Betwixt Good and Evil as they strolled
The breeze brought me the story they...
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Categories:
scurvy, evil, halloween, imagery, psychological,
Form:
Ballad
Old Salt
In the corner of a pub
There sits an old sea dog
He tells the same old stories
His mind is full of fog
“Ahoy, me hearties! Pass the rum
And I’ll spin you a yarn of old
About the time...
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Categories:
scurvy, drink, fun, humor, humorous, memory, poetry, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
What We Do
THE REVOLUTION IN ONLY 2 DIGITS
Home again.
Thomas, you were wrong to doubt it:
You Can Go Home Again and
Bask in the healing sun of Osiris
This isn’t home
This is recovery.
From the fevered scurvy of my...
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Categories:
scurvy, howl, political, world,
Form:
Free verse
Food For the Gods
Food For The Gods
We overload young flesh
With hordes of old meat!
We defile bodies so fresh
With unwholesome treat
We forsake healthy veggies
In pursuit of fat steaks
We re-direct our wages
Where Butchers’ knife hacks!
Not fats by many a...
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Categories:
scurvy,
Form:
I do not know?
Barcelona
Another terrorist atrocity has happened again
This time it was Barcelona and that my friends is Spain
My heart felt love goes to those affected
These terrorists need found and dejected
Stay alert everyone they may strike anywhere
Be vigilant...
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Categories:
scurvy, anti bullying, care, conflict, grief, together, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Who Stole the Strawberries
Trust is such a deliciously sweet thing
Who
stole
the
strawberries?
Make the yellow-bellied canary sing
Confidence lost in an abandoned mind
Smoky sulfur
and...
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Categories:
scurvy, imagery, mystery, symbolism, trust,
Form:
Free verse
Gather Around
Gather around an I'll tell ye a tale
Of infamous pirates who in their hey day
Lived in old Bull Bay.
These guys were scurvy naves, cut throats, liars,
Thieves, and believe it or not it all added up...
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Categories:
scurvy, adventure, community, evil, fear, horror, mystery, myth,
Form:
Villanelle