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Mooring Line Poems

An Old Clinker Boat in Williamstown

...
There is a sadness at the sight 
of this wreck of a boat, 
beached on a brick pad,
paralyzed and deprived 
of riding the tides or being swung
on a mooring line by waves
and wind. It sits as a...

Categories: mooring line, boat, sad, time, water,
Form: Free verse

March

...March





March, the mooring line of equinox,
A time for all to flush from their covert,
Reverberates the spring zing,
Children caper across green meadows,
Humour climbs the seventh heaven...

Categories: mooring line, beauty, blessing, spring,
Form: Acrostic

A Spring Abecedarian

... abecedarian 

An arch's lowest stone from which it springs is a springer
Bounce in one’s step common to infatuation
Cricket term – one of a set of rubber strips on a bat handle
Door lock...

Categories: mooring line, adventure, daffodils, spring,
Form: Abecedarian

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Spring Rain For Hindenburg

...Spring Rain For Hindenburg


2 Spring fronts had gathered on the East Coast

       Creating an overcharged atmosphere.

              Germany to 'Jersey'--3 days at most--
                      The ...

Categories: mooring line, history, loss, nature, places,
Form: Rhyme

Lunch With the Captain

...After two years in the Tonkin Gulf during Vietnam, I was stationed in the Philippines. I was 
invited for lunch aboard an Australian destroyer by the ship’s captain. They were getting 
underway for...

Categories: mooring line, adventureme,
Form: Free verse

Drift

...a different place
in a long ago time
when we were together
when you were mine
we could have made it
we might have been fine
it was the outside influences
that started the decline
too many hea...

Categories: mooring line, lost love, love
Form: Verse

Drift

...a different place
in a long ago time
when we were together
when you were mine
we could have made it
we might have been fine
it was outside influences
that started the decline
too many headach...

Categories: mooring line, lost love, love
Form: Verse