Long Shipyard Poems
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Fearing Father
There in the corner of the living room
on a loveseat meant for two
now only resides one
there he sits, by a warm fireplace
its occupant a man
a man have I known only as a...
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Categories:
shipyard, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst, art, conflict, death,
Form:
Free verse
Akula
AKULA
Mark and I caught the last plane from Ft. Lauderdale to New Orleans to escape Hurricane Andrew, leaving Akula ,our boat, tied up at Rolly Shipyard to face the wrath alone. The next few hell...
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Categories:
shipyard, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
A Letter To My Hero
November 19, 2001
Dear Doc and Doris,
It’s been such a long time since I’ve seen you. I believe it was some years ago at the Sims reunion. That was several years before we moved here to...
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Categories:
shipyard, childhood, growing up, inspiration, memory, veterans day,
Form:
Narrative
The Rigamarole of Traitors
The US Marshall is a tedious branch, that can be manipulated over a process of a deadly undergoing investigation. The perpetrator was very elusive from the get-go. He boards a US Marshall plane rigged to...
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Categories:
shipyard, addiction, betrayal, conflict, hope, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
The 1940's and 50's Movie, Radio and More
Don Winslow of the Navy at the movies...…., the Lone Ranger, and the shadow, on the radio. Three of my favorite pastimes in Wilmington NC, From just before my first grade in school to the...
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Categories:
shipyard, truth, world war ii,
Form:
Prose
When I Was Twentysomething 1980s
I saw a man die who took a stance
I saw he just wanted to give peace a chance
I saw the boycotts and the embargoes
I saw trafficking in human cargos
I saw hedge funds, junk bonds, oil...
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Categories:
shipyard, history, world,
Form:
Couplet
Odyssey From Africa 15c
Odyssey from Africa 15c (Southland, continued...)
Being rich in skill and talent
He soon gained the feel and measure
Of the boomerang’s employment
Sent it arching near the treetops
Then returning where it started
As the king...
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Categories:
shipyard, adventure, africa, history, humanity, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Apparition
We were a poor Yacht Club, lacking prestige, but with knowledgeable sailors who believed in one another and more importantly, our club. We also had the best boat. A 65' two masted...
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Categories:
shipyard, boat,
Form:
Free verse
SS Southern Cross - the Old Lady of the Sea
Built in a Belfast shipyard
for Shaw Savill ‘n Albion Line.
On her flagstaff wind ‘n lee
flew the Southern Cross ensign,
down a slipway to the sea
...
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Categories:
shipyard, childhood, voyage,
Form:
Rhyme
The Helicopter Flight
One morning, when I was stationed at base operations in Subic, I had a
telephone call. A Filipino shipyard worker had died during the night-shift,
on the job at the navy repair facility, apparently of natural causes....
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Categories:
shipyard, adventurebody, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Mountain Man
I know how to live off the land
I'm a survivalist
I make do with whatever's at hand
I'm a survivalist
It's a mindset,
it's a lifestyle
You must have a soldier's discipline,
be able to endure hardships for a long while
I'm...
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Categories:
shipyard, adventure, nature, perspective, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hephaistos in a Shipyard
Hephaistos, is it? Barricade the door!
For every time he comes his plan were grand;
And every time he leaves, we were more poor;
And once again is more than I can stand!
There is a ship to build....
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Categories:
shipyard, anger, myth, sea, solitude, voyage, winter, work,
Form:
Rhyme
Hashtali-Achafa a Divine Spot
It was a good spot.
A spot near the bus stop.
A spot where on many days the air was filled with aroma
of fruits and vegetables from tables set up in front of markets.
A spot where a...
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Categories:
shipyard, character,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Matchstick Bikes
Matchstick Bikes
To tinkers and toilers
I salute,
From mending boilers
to weaving jute,
Man and boy
for generations,
I...
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Categories:
shipyard, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Albert's Avengers
Albert G Walpole, proud legionnaire
Clerk to the council for all of his days
Lived with his mother in Hartington D'Arcy
Nice little end terrace, quite set in his ways
But one Sunday evening, returning from church
This man of...
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Categories:
shipyard, adventure, conflict, farewell, goodbye, hilarious, judgement, violence,
Form:
Light Verse
American Dreamers
Wash whipping on the clothesline
Time tripping back in my mind
Climb in my wayback machine made by Ford
Come on back with me, somewhere I knew before
Come on baby baby, back where I used to know
Once upon...
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Categories:
shipyard, song,
Form:
Lyric
1980 Our Year In Love
The depth of our love has an infinite range,
as I reminisce on the day that we met.
I will always remember your deepest voice,
a mellifluous sound I will never forget.
You caught me off guard, while...
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Categories:
shipyard, love, romantic,
Form:
Rhyme
Up Too Close
UP TOO CLOSE
When I was three I was taken
To a shipyard for the launch,
The graceful wetting of a ship -
Elegant sweep of a warship,
Huge yet sleek, strong...
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Categories:
shipyard, me,
Form:
Free verse
Never Again
In between the doubts and tears forms a founded thought…
scribbles on an old shipyard memo pad
tapping the inside of my skull, waking me…even though I don’t sleep,
offering a collection of dots and dashes to interpret
There...
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Categories:
shipyard, moving on,
Form:
Free verse
Philadelphia Experiment
Perhaps a conspiracy, but the crew only knows, the
Happenings aboard the USS Eldridge, kept hushed
In a ship that sailed from sea port to time portals
Leaves a feeling this test was not ready, but rushed
Amid the...
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Categories:
shipyard, time,
Form:
Acrostic
Shipwrecked Dreams
(8/26/12)
My dreams are like shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea
Covered under seaweed, algae, gravel and rocks
Because at its birth, I didn’t give it enough stock.
A dream is like clay and I am the sculptor
And...
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Categories:
shipyard, inspirational, philosophy, dream, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode to Door County
You opened your heart for me
on a Friday evening
after I worked in Green Bay.
My friend who lived near
Milwaukee said you
were the best place
to be in Wisconsin,
the forests
and tourist shops
that lay between
the bay and Lake Michigan.
I...
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Categories:
shipyard, places, travel,
Form:
Ode
Heartbeats
Thump, thump...thump, thump
Your heart beats with internal impediment
Making each breath a struggle.
I see your pain, I feel your anguish,
I dearly love your determination to endure.
I can only imagine how difficult it is to
relinquish days...
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Categories:
shipyard, angst, care, devotion, love,
Form:
Free verse
Miss Uss Missouri
(For more information about U.S.S. Missouri
visit www.ussmissouri.org/learn-the-history)
About Miss U.S.S. Missouri,
Or affectionately, "Mighty Mo!"
Second World War surrender documents
Were signed on her in Bay Tokyo.
She was launched from the Naval Shipyard
In Brooklyn in 1944.
Miss Missouri...
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Categories:
shipyard, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
Recruitment
RECRUITMENT
Your country needs you lads, let Lord Kitchener tell you more
Come forward, join the ranks and we’ll send you off to war
You’re fighting for salvation; you’ve got Jesus on your side
Remember that in battle; let...
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Categories:
shipyard, conflict, family, war, world war i, youth,
Form:
Rhyme