Long Watertight Poems

UndefeaTed.  A Boxing Lesson.

A friend, off the Vineyard,
wrighted a ship.
And, perhaps himself,
and certainly the worlds ‘round him.
His words were fashioned, shipshape and watertight
as were the splines and bungholes and rudder pins and
All the Things...

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They never solved the murder.

Though the crazy woman at number nine said it was the husband.

This was ruled out in the early stages of the investigation.

At some point, they did talk to the woman at...

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The most reliable pipes for house plumbing are ones that will persist for a...

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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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Oh the glory! Of this my story
Upon a colossal, metallic beast
Did I sail, for many a year
Every ocean and sea, seemed the vastness of eternity

My name is Arthur Homer Creed, AKA -“Homie”
Chief Petty Officer, United...

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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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The other members of the group would tease Lambent Shroud.
They’d speak in groans n puns too.
You’d sense lambent was a little uncomfortable with it all.
The other members of this amazing group were all tall, had...

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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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Written: October 16, 2023
This Or That, Vol 21 Poetry Contest       Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh    

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart;...

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I spent my day shopping for rubies

for my Mommy who wished to mate

misheard though because I was small

asked for boobies instead for her date


the vendour asked me how many

I replied I only had money for...

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One time around the pickle mountain ensures that a fountain is required upon return but a round fish looking at a tree line is plotting and planning a way to make a watertight tree house....

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In days of old when knights were bold and dungeons were dug deep 
Widely renowned back then was found, a race of hero sheep 
These sheep were strong, these sheep were tough, 
these sheep were...

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When the mind speaks

Poetry immensely personal I hide behind
storytelling not talking about my feelings
but the sensibility of others.
What happens have nothing to do with me the onlooker
the observer, like an architect surveying a building
and finding...

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Lost in the rythym of the base and the blues. Sometimes It's like I'm here but I'm not, I can't lose.
The sweet sense of the spanish guitar taking my spirit away as I travel far,...

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7/30/16

Streetlights
Not turning on until the night

I am wrong not always right
During the day and night
Just trying to live my life
Below satellites

I'm going to roll the dice
More than once or twice
Making sure my family is alright
And...

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There’s no time for poverty
When there’s magic in the air
So long as there’s food 
There’s no need to care,
And a watertight roof 
Over a persons  head
And the music of trees as 
He lies there...

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Blinded by shining shards of sunlight
reflecting off sandy summer shores,
give pause to wonder what unworldly sight
hides beneath ocean’s watertight doors.

The Sun, father of the shoreline
instructs his lazy children to light the way
for beach combers and...

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The Warm Jacket 
Ducks have two sets of feathers outer ones, which are
watertight and inner feathers that is soft as a young 
man’s whispery beard. Ducks are never cold and can waddle
a frozen pond with...

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Turtle wrap is a turtle entwined. Eh. Ooh.ball is the only thing for a bit. Among a fish baked grass. And a farting squid in a barrel of pickles is a introduction to a heifer...

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Rings, what are they ?
Those gaudy gem encrusted  things displayed  by those in places high and low.
Or on the other hand  the kind that pricks  the ear when one is half...

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Between each archway fingerprint
Remnant headstone carving intricate
Decodes dusty cold cave hieroglyphics 

Dirty criss crossed city disposes its sacred
Therapist picks information, laden orchid
Reaps apples, red atoms accumulated
Unwound reveal his raw core seed

Drenches cortex, a sculptor's paste
Presses...

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People were frightened and they were bound to panic.
Over 1,500 people died during the crash of the Titanic.
It was supposed to be unsinkable but when it hit that iceberg, it went down.
It was a terrible...

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Well twenty whales met ten goldfish at rush hour on the A9 but the heavily congested B85 was chewing on some straw that had fallen off a bridge. Hay deepens a drag from a nomadic...

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There is a stall down by the dock
Selling the freshest seafood stock.
Creatures in shells, caught just offshore.
Live oysters there for eating raw. 
Each one sealed up and watertight.
To prise open it is a fight.
Down in...

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Sea alongside where they are, where they go
    Undercurrent of cover, keep upset under wraps
    Run a watertight routine within swim safe zone
    Emit words washing...

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