Boat Prose Poetry Poems

My aunt was a weirdo: she talked to trees, walked around the house naked and used to read me “The Metamorphoses” by Ovid and “The...

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Snow and Paintings              

The snow began to fall
late yesterday afternoon
first the big...

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As I’m walking along the bay, smelling fish,
I see fishermen on the sidewalk, lining up at a particular restaurant.
I would stop but my man wouldn't...

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From the heart of green naïve village
surrounded by corps field, mosque, ponds, 
ancestral grave yard, school, college, 
madrasah (islamic school) etc he is

brothers, sisters with...

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My dear father in law

From the time we first met, I knew we would get along
It's not been a life time but our bond was...

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baby we rock the boat
no longer i fell like a
old goat
we got it on
all night long
i feel reborn
the feeling couldn't 
fight
oh baby baby baby
WHAT A...

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weather is hot
its    boat ride trot
on the ocean
boats in motion
it was  pack
has cooler in ther rack
it was cook ham
and  soul...

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as  there  boat whip
and water sip
they dig deep
until its complete
put in a bold
its gold
while ships in motion
GOLD DIGGER AND THE OCEAN
 
...

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I have a rare disorder that causes me to see everyone in the cast of any submarine movie as Don Rickles. Every bloody person is...

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I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play, 
And wild and sweet 
The words repeat 
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!...

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The refusal to serve the Monarch at/on the battle filed caused this family to be sentenced to life imprisonment, but within the mercy of the...

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An innocent small girl is crying on the roadside
her face seems very candid and
expressions look naïve, but
nobody knows the cause of her sadness and 
and...

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Once I met a little girl
Sweeter than honey could be,
She must have been barely eight
But looked much younger to me.

She asked with a dimpled smile
If...

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By the side of the Sea 
She gives me glimpses 

 of distance lost 
Of figures dancing 
upon mirrors beyond time 
  
Through thought...

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Masalembo
2016 © Fleetwood


Blue-green ocean tipped with whitecaps rolling toward the shore
Plane is humming with the pilot talking about life and your ride is there parked...

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Love is Life…


Love is more than a feeling, more than a warmth in the heart, more than a smile, or a touch, or a whisper
Love...

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This boat is full,
A vessel overflowing.
In darkness people talk.
A child is crying.

I close my eyes,
Lock out the world.
I envision drab gloom
As sunlight on my begging...

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   Humanity is a series of mistakes that have molded society into what it is today. It's important to learn from mistakes—lessons that...

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i've had to allow the truth somehow to sink into my brain whilst in a world seemingly insane through attitudes so vain that they can...

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~ Center of Our Lives ~ 310 Words Exactly ~







Stars glimmer, 
oh the grandeur

kneeling up low, steady  
praying on my left soleus 
down waiting...

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