Quayside Poems - Poems about Quayside

...Written: October 20, 2023, If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality. By Thomas Beecham ___________......Read the rest...

...the light breeze cooled the morning sun daytrip Venice had begun vantage views from a vaporetto inch-by-inch the skyline began to grow St Marks cameinto view etched......Read the rest...

...Oh how I wish to be one with the wind in my hair,  my floral dress flowing in the air.  The soft ocean breeze hitting my face,  and the delightful cadence of waves nothing would replace.  The w......Read the rest...

...I balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden windowsill of my topmost room at the rundown pension overlooking t......Read the rest...

...the light breeze cooled the morning sun daytrip Venice had begun vantage views from a vaporetto inch-by-inch the skyline began to grow St Marks cameinto view etched......Read the rest...

...Rest now O restless heart released in ebb to flow ride the other side of the king tide rising buoyant your movement in rise with the waves Rise! to beyond where breakers break long-suffering......Read the rest...

...Aye, Aye Captain That's what sailors say When all is ready To travel on their way To far off places And get the ship afloat When all is in order On this orderly boat A boat has to be tidy......Read the rest...

...Foreword: Contains excepts from, and additions to, my own three part poem ‘Bone Idol’, which is way too long to submit here. Skeleton Quay He lingers on the quayside and heeds the phantom howls......Read the rest...

...Odyssey from Africa 15c (Southland, continued...) Being rich in skill and talent He soon gained the feel and measure Of the boomerang’s employment Sent it arching near the treetops Then ......Read the rest...

...Chapter 11 The Island Kingdom (f, continued...) Near the north-most cape they passed, there Lay the kingdom’s foremost city By the name of Cannabarro Here was found the royal palace Of Ptole......Read the rest...

...Late night summons madmen, madams, bold streetwalkers, picking pennies from the gutters as the merchants close their shutters and the homeless crouch in doorways in their rags, against the ......Read the rest...

...Late night summons madmen, madams, bold streetwalkers, picking pennies from the gutters as the merchants close their shutters and the homeless crouch in doorways in their rags, against the ......Read the rest...

...Late night summons madmen, madams, bold streetwalkers, picking pennies from the gutters as the merchants close their shutters and the homeless crouch in doorways in their rags, against the ......Read the rest...

......inspired by 'Rhapsody On A Windy Night' by T.S. Eliot ******** Late night summons madmen, madams, bold streetwalkers, picking pennies from th......Read the rest...

......inspired by 'Rhapsody On A Windy Night' by T.S. Eliot ******** Late night summons madmen, madams, bold streetwalkers, picking pennies from th......Read the rest...