Long Seaport Poems

My spirit has been calling to get up and go to the sea
My spirit has been telling me that there is something for me to see
My spirit is calling me to fly over the big...

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Once upon a time in the lands from the north, south, east to west    
Navigating on the cold white sands formed of sugar and ice       ...

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Jonah guardian angel 
Great prophet 
of Israel 
In God's path 
You ran away from the Lord 
On a passage 
From a seaport 
Of Joppa 

God commands everything 
On a ship 
heading away 
Everything in his...

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About two thousand years ago
In the early morning hours of a cool day
When the wind was calm and the Sun had just 
Started showing his sign in east 

A small vessel boat standing near the...

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Remember all the Wise Men on their knees upon your yacht?
With orphans on their backs they’d crawled (with others that they’d brought)
Through rubble on the highway sands and residues of Lot.
They came from severed cities...

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HOW

“THREE DOLLAR DEWEYS”

GOT ITS’ NAME
(redux)


We’ve been watching you reading our sign,
know what your thinking, what an unusual line.

Come on in, you’ll have a wonderful time.
Tell you a story and won’t take your last dime.

Legend has...

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NEWCASTLE  UPON  TYNE,    ENGLAND

Half-Scot,  half-English  and  ill at ease with the past,
Newcastle is sooty black from its coaly drama, 
And  the breathless town was always ...

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Once in a memory
The boy played by the small stream running near the hospital
where his mother was a patient and time hung heavy this
afternoon in late September.
The boy picked five elongated leaves from a bush...

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An Ancient crazy Ox, 
Once had a whacking job,
Breaking on the dance floor,
One too many holes to show!
 
A sleepy grizzly bear on four,
Drinking ale with a drunkard 
boar,
On board a rocking Boat with 
one...

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"Egin superbe a la robuste echine, par toi Marseille a pu au prix 
       d'un long effort, retirer des flots bleus, la celebre sardine 
    ...

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He walks this earth, is cunning and sly.
Corrupting man his thoughts as time goes by.
Treacherous he has legions of followers to hurt and maim.
Bringing sorrows, terror, chaos, this is his agenda and his aim.

Angry for...

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Gypsy Rose Of Mystic Seaport

 
She was known as the Gypsy Rose of 

Mystic Seaport by the tourists.

She would read their palms and 

sing them old sea dog songs 

from long ago.

 

But every now...

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I’ve been harkening back to my formative years 
Haunting seedy seaport bars in Keelung,
Navigating strange interventions abroad,
While adjusting my ears to an alien tongue.

On the streets of the market the game was afoot.
I bought a...

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Thing About It for a While

St. James is determined to be demanding
Resulting in a mysterious misunderstanding;
At Midway and Two Eleven much wind blows;
Have heard there won't be the likes of Lowes.

Also, is some news about...

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I’m un-fouling my anchor chain 
In this seedy seaport bar.
Bid farewell to the tavern rats 
Who’ll stay rooted where they are.
Pull the cork. Tip the bottle back. 
Take a long soul-warming sip.
Feel that heady brew...

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A Major Seaport

She sure was such a sweet local librarian
But would always turn into a barbarian;
When I did something that I must confess
Left my table in library a big mess.

Around for a while, I soon...

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Uvira my birthplace 
A small town of Democratic 
Republic 
of the  Congo 
Which is at the boundaries
of the lake Tanganyika 
In Southern Kivu province. 
A place
Where many rebellions 
started because 
of many borders 
with other...

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A night for Romance 

 Wes at on an upturned boat of the type of “the old man and the sea.”
by Ernest Hemingway used, the night had all the ingredients needed
for romance, full moon and...

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We, the travellers 

 Many people when they get elderly travel the world
to see famous places and other cultures.
When they die, they will have no recollection of the travels.
I have been to every country that...

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When it's not possible to go abroad 
It's not bad to get acquainted local scenes
With the Philippines country's surroundings 
I have long wanted to see Cebu's whale sharks
I want to visit Palawan's Underground River
Witness the...

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I dreamt I was there again
At that seaport town serene
Walking along the cobblestone
And the many shades of green
Saint Colman's Cathedral on the hill
I stopped and attended Mass
People were so friendly there
Saying hello as I would...

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When all is Ocean 

I have been looking at the map on the wall
Most of our world consists of salt water
In time to come when the sea level rises
Britain will be a rock that steadfastly...

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