Sea Parody Poems

Sandy the Sandman.
Was a super duper dude.
With a surfboard pack and a seashell nose
and two eyes made out of food.

Sandy the Sandman.
Would always love to...

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'Twas the twilight of the year, a twinkling tiara,
December 31st, digits dancing dunes in the Sahara.
One, two, three, one, two, three, it's a prance,
A numerical...

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My perfect imitation of a pilot in motion
cautiously pushing forward, paying attention
to all details is a trick of the virtual imagination...
using agile hands, as if...

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Our country's history
Soured by a presidency
For thee I mourn.
Land where so many died
Because of foolish pride
Trump's faults I must deride
With words of scorn.

Stripped of our...

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What is her name? Someone asked Mr. Lee.
It’s okay, he told them. She is Alice of the Sea.
Like THE Alice? The person asked with surprise.
Of...

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In remembrance of Malvina Reynolds

Little Pumpkins in a pumpkin patch
Little Pumpkins growing side-by-side
Little Pumpkins taste of sticky taffy
Little Pumpkins in a row.

There's a black one,...

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How to ride a jetksi I don’t know
But my rucksack’s packed and I must go
To see a gal across the Irish Sea

Spent five grand on...

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I climb in Suzanne,
She ain't no hippy van,
She's rusty and forgotten
Her soul is slightly rotten
But I believe she's grand.

I turn the key and roar her...

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Mr point would indicate wherever he might be
He’d point at you and sometimes he would also point at me
He’d point at mountains and at sky...

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We have sprinted on our paws
from silver fields into the ashen corridors
of Office-Max
How early we set our alarms, how grown up,
who don the coats of...

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Universal Sea Shanty; or, The Generic Folk Song

Sailing with potatoes
Sailing with potatoes
Sailing with potatoes
The perfect Irish jig....

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“Never allow dreams to drift off in smoke,
for dreamers wishes come wrapped up in hope.”
Quote ~ poet’s own

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I read poems by Edgar Allan...

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Little splashing waves at the warm sea scented beach,
reflected moonlight large and low to seeming reach.
We were young, in love and trusted that destiny,
hearts so...

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Ataxia the Beautiful!
With apologies to Samuel A. Ward

O beautiful for spacious sighs,
No art, fine motor disdain,
For Purple Mountain labilities,
Absolve off tune refrain!
Ataxia! Ataxia! God shed...

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This is written to the rhythm of the Ballad of the Green Beret
By Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler
And
Robin Moore
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Let us roam
upon the seas
we dont want
to make...

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