Strummaz Motiff
...The green leafed tree in the harbor.
There the freights are advanced.
Sailors with quality tools, while
diners feast and play chess. The edge
Of the merchants dine hall has a Blindspot
where tu...
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Categories:
maties, boat, celebration, celebrity, dance,
Form: Ballad
CROSSROADS
...Well, here I am again… at my crossroads
I can tell they are mine
The marker I.D. reads “Between a rock and a hard place”
“What a shameful disgrace
As usual, I am not alone
We are not born alon...
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Categories:
maties, destiny, journey, mythology, perspective,
Form: Prose Poetry
Simon Le Bon
...Simon Le Bon English singer who rocked the eighties
Three Ivor Novello Awards British Academy, maties
Duran Duran's lead singer and lyricist
Flair for poetry my favorite empiricist...
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Categories:
maties, appreciation, celebrity, character, muse,
Form: Clerihew
Lone Boat
...lone boat on the sea
ladders and ropes and maties -
rocking horse drama
8/29/2022...
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Categories:
maties, sea,
Form: Haiku
Finding the Great Ships
...Discovered by three cousins on a lark
Ahoy Maties! I’m captain of this ship.
One rapidly named himself Captain Stark.
But this isn’t fair the third gave them lip.
You be the Kill Boy, when we ...
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Categories:
maties, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
Jinx
...Jokes passed around in my car…
Sure went very far…left me with a scar…
Maybe I’ll be His unique, brilliant star…
It’s awesome that I’m a daydreamer thus far…
I’m like a prowling lion, waiting f...
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Categories:
maties, courage, crazy, dedication,
Form: Monorhyme
My Pirates Plea For Sincerity
...Maties I will say Ahoy
And tell you things that just annoy
The wind out of all my sails
As I state a little tale
Of something that irks my ship
While we take a little trip
Through the waters of my mi...
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Categories:
maties, how i feel, life,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond Horizon Reentry
...Dropped out of whap five, hyperdrive is fried and so am I. Cruised through
a seven eleven, picked up some goodies for me mates. Bottle of Jack Daniels
Black for me British mate Paul Beadnall, lovel...
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Categories:
maties, fantasy, mother, me, old,
Form: Prose Poetry
Cruisin' Pirate Style
...Arggh me hearties! We're takin' a long-awaited vacation!
Th' enchantin' isles uv th' Caribbean is ar final destination!
Hoist th' Jolly Roger an' them billowin' sails an' let's git 'er underway!
T...
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Categories:
maties, funnyme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Ballad O' Peg Leg Pete
...“Aye, me maties, ‘tis a stormy sea dis day
Shiver me timbers, let’s make way for da bay”
But as Peg Leg Pete slowly turned ’is ship ‘round
A great beauty on da rocks was t' be found
“We’ll sa...
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Categories:
maties, funnyme,
Form: Couplet