Long Suez Poems

Oh Hanna. 

The sinking of the USS Stefan wood. 

Oh Hanna 
I want to take you to Montana. 
We can camp out by the springs we will go and see the way oil is founding...

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Although born in Scotland I have no memories of there as we left when I was two.
My first recollections are of Las Palmos in the Canaries.
I recall the donkey passing daily and being told he...

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WORLD WAR 11 THROUGH THE EYES OF MY DAD
POEM NO 2 OF TRILOGY

My father was one of six children, whose family
Had no financial reserves, so explained to them amicably
That he had decided he wanted to...

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Saudi Arabia is also being courted by Red China and Russia. And President Biden's over seas visits were not successful at least as far as I currently know. It has been said that he botched...

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The young lad sat in the old school room
To him the place felt like a tomb
He knew that he would be leaving soon
He felt restless

He got a job on the factory floor
This just seemed to...

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Both of us vacationed at the same resort.
Had rum vis-a-vis. Mediocre story.
One night you offered me and friend to escort
To music bar du jour. I won't be sorry.

We met when for both of us life...

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The Journey
by Robert J (Bob) Moore ©2020

We used to live in Manchester, in England, the UK
till one day our dad said, we’re going to move away
Australia’s where were going to, a land of sand and...

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love on the high seas

He was a happy man, had passed the catering exam, and got employment as second cook on a tank ship 
To make happiness perfect his girlfriend had a job on the...

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The cost of living collided to the sky and plus claustrophobia minus class of cloud equal to clerk count to countries and Kiribati. I live to love the lovable and to live with laughable to...

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A New Land
by Robert(Bob) Moore

When I was a young man, England was my home
I lived there for 18 years, then began to roam
I was happy where I was, but dad made up his mind
time to...

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My journey through life has seen so much
far have I traveled and much I have done
seen so many things that most others never do
the rock of Gibraltar, with teems of scary monkeys
traveling out we sailed...

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I was seven when we departed for East Africa
and what a journey lay ahead of us. First the
Suez  canal which felt like you could touch the
opposite bank as we sailed through them.
We saw plenty...

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Little Jack sits in a class-room
With tears in his little eyes.
He’d like to leave the room soon,
But he still sits there and cries.

“What happened” – the janitor asks,
“You know, boys shouldn’t cry.
Your teachers gave too...

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My trip to mighty Blighty.

At the age of just nineteen
I bought myself a ticket
Packed up all my bags and stuff
And climbed aboard the ship
I was off to mighty Blighty.

And so I left these Aussie shores
And...

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The whole world considers the Suez Canal passe-partout.
Every day, numerous ships routinely pass through.
A big ship called the "Ever Given" blocked the passageway.
For a while, it looked as if this behemoth was there to stay.
The...

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AmazinG courageous heroes, Rangers, Seals and Delta Force of AmericA
Militarily defending freedom and liberty against  radical,  jihad  terrorisM
Around the world defeating all evil men with an Anti - American  agendA
Zemzem flows...

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Green scene that caught and took me clean away, 
captivated on the sights as the train 
excels, on our progress in the same day,
a rare place I will never know and gain. 

The Nile amongst...

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Ships of Poverty 

Going through the Suez Canal in the fifties was
fraught every porthole and doors had to be 
locked or we were robbed. 

The ship swarmed with carpet sellers, thieves
and people selling dubious alcohol...

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The merchant ship 
The ship leaves Rotterdam
sail to the med, and through the Suez channel
into the red sea, the vessel arrives at an oil terminal
and all you see is pipelines storage tanks and sand,
then the...

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More than fifty ships go through the Suez Canal on any day.
However, a very large freighter has blocked the passageway.
The ship called the "Ever Given" comes from a company in Taiwan.
Unsuccessful efforts to move the...

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