Purser Poems


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...They don’t care,
if your monthly car, mortgage, utility bills,
credit card payments, a loan you’re paying back
your father inlaw has always been on time,
or if.

You didn’t see the no parking o...
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Categories: purser, life,
Form: Free verse

Dance of the Bony

...Dance of the bony 

Soon we will look
30 when we die,
Which will please the undertaker.
Death will be called a voyage
On an everlasting cruise ship.
The purser will send 
Festive cards
From ...
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Categories: purser, dance, death, deep,
Form: Blank verse


Fear's Leash

...Fear leashes unforeseen harpoons
     when faith flees to the hold.
     Wind gauges possible typhoons,
     purser murmurs threefold...

           fractures in the bulkhead
           sailors...
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Categories: purser, 11th grade, anxiety, courage,
Form: Rhyme

Catering Officer

...The Catering officer
Once upon a time, I was a seaman; I began as a galley boy
and after six months was promoted to the second cook,
What dizzying height. At home, I went to a catering school for ...
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Categories: purser, 12th grade, allusion, deep,
Form: Blank verse

I Am

...I AM WHAT I AM
I am to others, what I am not.
Cannot be, what they want. 
Myself, a tragedy.
Etched by mortality. 
Can explain, my morality.
Surrounded by insanity.
I have never understood, me...
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Categories: purser, life,
Form: Free verse


My Profile

...I am a lucky guy. 
Many splendid reasons to sigh.

I am, in my early sixties. 
Am not sexy, as it sounds.
Weigh 62 kgs. (137 lbs).
My waist  35" (289 cm)

My name is not followed,
by any cre...
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Categories: purser, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDrink From the Well

...When the bird no longer cares, the rushing 
river cannot be crossed. All strength I 
possess, but if springtime does not boil my 
blood and laughter falls not; in summer 
rain, then~
The sun shines, ...
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Categories: purser, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Dance Macabre

...Dance Macabre 
 
Soon we all will all look 
30 when we die,
which will please undertakers? 
Death will be called a voyage, 
on an everlasting cruise ship
and the purser will send 
festive car...
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Categories: purser, angst,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberCaptain Noah's Cruise

...Noah welcomed his passengers aboard the ark two-by-twos,
For a trip ordained by God, a hundred and fifty day cruise.
It rained steadily for forty miserable days and nights.
The waters of the deep lif...
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Categories: purser, animals
Form: Rhyme
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