Long Snorkeling Poems

Written 24 December 2023 
Placed 5th in :
No 1243 New Poem Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand

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This is meant to be a manual, a set of sober instruction
that you can use, once you get past this lengthy introduction,
as a “how to” for learning to feel what it feels like when you...

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oh, Dear Indulgence ...

desolate, obscure, I know you not, (and have known you not),
    still, do I not know the glint there, in your eye? Aye, it abides
    ...

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All aboard the Fantasy M/S of Carnival
for half a week’s vacation time of fun and falderal.
Hear greetings from your captain, his director and the crew.
Ready, set, get going.  The Bahamas wait for you.

Bon Voyage!...

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" Tortured metaphors
                           spilling from tequila lips,
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We set sail as Reggae music played out on the Lido.
Our first night was casual; no need for tuxedo.
We could eat a pizza by the Windows On the Sea
or go beneath and dine on shrimp...

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The channel islands off the coast
of California were my home
on weekends sailing with my dad
on glassy seas, on froth and foam.

On Fridays after work he’d head
to Catalina on the wind.
Sometimes, the trips were fast and...

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this was written after a day of snorkeling off mile marker 14 in Maui

Dominated by destinations and schedules
I can only look ahead.
Forward to 14.
We must park, we must mark ours.
I must govern us by order...

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I can’t get off how I’d like to get off
so I’ll have to get off soft

I can’t get loft how I’d like to get loft
so I don’t get loft oft

I want to face this thing...

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These tears in my eyes come from missing you
No point in my trying to diminish their flow,
For they reappear with special memories
They persist in following me wherever I go.
How I remember our hours on the...

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Bright blonde-haired girl
competitive
From the start, made a nine
Mile ride
With a spirited heart, straight
to the 
Summit of Telegraph Hill, I’ll
guess
She freewheeled back ‘just for
the thrill’

A gifted person, with a giving
heart
A literate future ‘to be’ in life
her...

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Tsunami

Clinging to a tree my might is numb
Teeth chattering, soaked in seaweed I succumb
to the shores of doom, the tides violent surge
Adrift and marooned all owed to a sudden urge
After the party I woke up...

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Years ago I did so choose, to go on a Caribbean clipper ship cruise,
and, in addition to several other islands,
anchored off Nevis, northwest of Saint Kitts,
where, in the late 1780's, Nelson had lived,
and still bears...

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H2o, showers does cause colorful flowers on earth to greatly bloom
It is on the atomic table: this of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen
It being the transportation medium for all nutrients needed
Vital for all living...

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YOUR POEMS ARE NOT TRASH


I' m not perfect, neither is the world, 
But that does not say that there could
be no fun.
Nature draws us in, very refreshing
for the soul,
For all things were created naturally.

Then, it's...

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Offshore in a Key West snorkeling trip
The old tar captain was really quite hip
Asked where the Bermuda Triangle was,
At first he laughed, then looked at me with pause

“About twenty yards yonder,” he replied
You should have...

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Spending three full days and two nights at sea
Is surely the best vacation for me

Conch chowder dinner the night before
At dawn adieu to the Key West shore

Round-trip journey to Dry Tortugas
Swordfish are known to put...

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As Usual Again

My and my elegant wife must excuse
We're driving to Florida going on a cruise
Of course my wife won't think I am funny
When I said we never had enough money.

Going on great cruise did...

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He was a snorkling guy
South of Florida state.
Now he's diving all the time
water’s where he stays.
Yesterday he was boasting.

Submerged he better stay.



Snorkeling guy you made her think I was crazy 
your memory is hazy
Why don’t...

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In my day summer fun was crazy!
Malta comes to mind, vivid memories.
Playing water polo in the roughest sea!
Crazy!
Snorkelling on my own, two minutes down,
looking up, fifty foot, gagging!
Worth it, the wonders seen, amazing!
Crazy!
Three times rescued,...

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Diving and snorkeling in Saltstraumen
                             is probably...

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Shh, surrender silent sorrows.
Subconsciously slip into stillness, 
sedately surrounded in serenity's song.
Slumber satisfied, slithering softly between 
silky soap scented sanitized sheets. 
Soak up summaries of summers spent splashing at 
seashores, sandles sifting through salt scented...

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transference

mind field in transit

lost in modern translation -

translucent echoes


bog snorkeling

in trenches of fear

submerged breathless for glory -

mud medals and God


mushroom cloud

trench foot ankle deep

fanfares baptize innocence -

bugles sound defeat


cross fire

rising from ashes

foot marks lost on...

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early Saturday morning
I wake up to
coffee brewing and
cartoons blaring

making my way into the kitchen
I hear Looney Toons
from the living room
and the shower running

I quietly enter the bathroom
smiling and undressing
to surprise you

pulling back the shower curtain
with...

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I have always enjoyed my solitude
I still do
But it is time to change my latitude and longitude
A place like Hawaii will do

Black sand beach
Shimmering waves
A place so far out of my reach 
This is what...

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