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Salmon Sunset

...Salmon pink horizon beguiles as I towel dry
Upon a muted canvas morphs hues at sunset.
The lake decants of its waders and pontoons.  
Mirrored waters tranquil—a soothing elixir.
Tidy up and make ...

Categories: pontoons, remember, summer,
Form: Free verse

Failures Colossal

...
     Nine months after October 6, 1973
     PM Golda Meir of Israel was history
     
     For an intelligence failure colossal
     She became a political fossil…

     Fast forward to Octob...

Categories: pontoons, history, jewish, leadership, repetition,
Form: Couplet

Digging For Dandelions

...Recalled sounds take you back to an old land
to a home you no longer need.
Like the soft snuffle of hedgehogs on the lawn
on a summer evening.
Here there are larger less harmless spiny beasts,
h...

Categories: pontoons, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Cadets Dress Ship

...The tweet on the pipe called the muster fall-in
The cadets all fell in with nary a din
For now they’d be grouped for “Hands to Cleanship”
To dress up the ship afore the Old Man's pip-pip

Well-t...

Categories: pontoons, military, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Watching From a Skiff On the Ohio River

...Herons fragment the mist,
appear and disappear while remaining motionless.
The skiff rocks as a coal barge trundles past.
A dewy sky shivers.

Nowadays he just sits in a boat looking at Ohio.
T...

Categories: pontoons, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Old Man In a Boat

...Our nephew and his lovely wife invited us for an afternoon on their boat
and I immediately thought of The Old Man And The Sea…you know the book that Hemingway wrote.

As I lounged in the softness ...

Categories: pontoons, boat,
Form: Rhyme

The Village On the Water Vi

...But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered 
   In the reverberating stillness of the 
 Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
    His impassioned lusts -- his penchant...

Categories: pontoons, celebration, community, environment,
Form: Free verse

Where Are You Now

...Where are you now?

Where have all the soldiers gone?
Been a long time asking everyone.
Troops and Groups of strong young men,
All passed out as fighting troops and then?

We went in as young ...

Categories: pontoons, friendship, memory, military, soldier,
Form: Rhyme

Skying An Oar

...Long time ago, in lonesome youth shine
In a wonder state of boykind
Making paper pontoons
Skying an oar, in a creek lagoon
On a yummy, afternoon
In swampy, draconian, water spittoon

The artsy...

Categories: pontoons, youth,
Form: Free verse

Adirondack Air

...At the foot of the massive massif bluffs which bounce atop upstate New York,
The air is thick with suburban smog bottled beneath the mountains' unpopped cork.

The fumes from factories of the foot...

Categories: pontoons, love, nature, new york,
Form: Couplet

Mind Your Words

...Mind Your Words

Some thoughts trickle through your mind like grains on a beach through 
                       the hand that writes in the sand with heart blood and a rock pool of soul 

Other ...

Categories: pontoons, words,
Form: Free verse

Smith's Octopuses Party On Pontoons

...Smith’s Octopuses Party On Pontoons 
                   Rumor Has It My Dear

Rumor has it my dear something spectacular is near
Bring your batik hats to our grand lavish scene
Wear flowing Kebeya ro...

Categories: pontoons, adventure, celebration, celebrity, fun,
Form: Free verse

Pontoon

...Relaxing sea ride with skies of blue.
Gentle waves rock our bodies like a porch swing.
Family laughing and soaking up the sunshine.

Further along waters start to get choppy
Waves grow bigger th...

Categories: pontoons, adventure, holiday, sea, sea,
Form: Narrative