Condition Three, Wartime Cruising
...I was a good Buddhist jack tar,
Confident to sail this ocean of time alone,
All desire renounced and stowed away
Like smuggled cargo I pretend is legal trade.
I was well-practiced in the art of n...
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Categories:
lubber, adventure, allegory, desire, lust,
Form: Blank verse
Rod Stewart Lied
...I'm sailing on a fancy yacht
But I don't give a damn
Cause I'm so bloody seasick
I don't know where I am
It began as a 'wee jaunt'
That sounded kind of fun
To sail about in balmy seas
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Categories:
lubber, humor, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Your Today
...Water is wet
Light is bright
Food is tasty
Fire is hot
Ice is cold
Almost everything has a description
Except for your indefinite "Today"
Which is just a product of your input
And an accumu...
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Categories:
lubber, 7th grade, adventure, today,
Form: Free verse
Gilly and Auntie Pam
...Gilly darling dont do that
You don't know where it's been
And put our hat on there's a love
I'm fetching some ice-cream
Do you want a cornet child?
Or will you take a lolly?
Oh Gilly darling do...
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Categories:
lubber, beach, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Express Owl
...There's a shilling in the cellar
There's a killer who's a sham
There's a miller with that feller
In a dilly of a jam
There's a tiger on the telly
There's a Schweiger in a pram
Have some jelly f...
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Categories:
lubber, books, cheer up, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Bi-Polar Bear Collaboration With Jan Allison
...BI-POLAR BEAR COLLABORATION WITH JAN ALLISON
I love living in the Arctic
The cold I find so cathartic
But you must beware
I'm bi-polar bear
If crossed I can be anarchic
I'm really a huge ...
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Categories:
lubber, fantasy, fun,
Form: Limerick
Bi-Polar Bear Collaboration With Lin Lane
...I love living in the Arctic
The cold I find so cathartic
But you must beware
I'm bi-polar bear
If crossed I can be anarchic
I'm really a huge white bi-polar bear
You can take my p...
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Categories:
lubber, change, emotions, identity,
Form: Limerick
Where Poems Come From
...WHERE POEMS COME FROM
When you write you ‘give’ yourself away
And people then sometimes say -
From where does your inspiration arise?
From the world around you surprise, surprise!
Ev...
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Categories:
lubber, on writing and wordswrite,
Form: Didactic
The Jewfish and the Gentile
...Said the scuba diver to the grouper, "My, you're quite a dish!
How about you and me 'hooking' up is my most fervent wish!"
"You have the cutest freckles on your face and, oh, those lips!
Won't y...
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Categories:
lubber, funny, romanceme, me, ,
Form: Couplet
Ezemony: Part I
...Grow old along with me:
The best is yet to be!
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See! Ben Ezra stares Rubaiyat in the eye,
In a debate so hot and ever fresh;
Their porters seem in the semels to lie!
Are they also gone or ...
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Categories:
lubber, epicheart, tree, dark, dark,
Form: Pastoral