Raft Poems

Crossed the Ocean in a Raft

     I’ve seen the sphinx and pyramids
        Climbed Kilimanjaro and Everest

     Crossed the ocean in a raft, I did
        So, which thrill was the best… 

     Lest you think

Life Raft in Amber

When brother was fading away
black chimes signaled for the demons to play
They attacked all sides of the hobbled mind
Treating the heart like an orphaned marble
They were rabid and had brackish intention
hope chipped away like crowbar on cement.

In a dream one of them took me into its sky
I clung tight to its undercarriage
begging for it to

A Raft Of Dreams

Let life's current carry you

                   to where love knows no sorrow.

Like a river that runs true, 

                   hope flows

Homer Translations

Surrender to sleep at last! What a misery, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michael R. Burch

Passage home? Impossible! Surely you have something else in mind, Goddess, urging me to cross the ocean’s endless expanse in a raft.

Let’s hope the

Stellar endings

Afloat in a river of stars,
Ecstasy knits the raft of thoughts,
A destination is what I seek,
Sailing away mindlessly, expecting the waters to speak.

The water calmly paves the way ahead,
As the fog of disturbance clears.
Hesitation takes bravery’s stead,
A detour that feeds on our fears.

Darkness fills the air,
It shadows the glorious sheen.
The magnificent aurora- my trail ahead,
Now

Taking My Dogs On a Raft Trip

Taking my dogs on a raft trip to North Missouri,
Solomon, Jasper, Jetsam and baby Madame Curie,
None of us are swimmers, but there is no real worry.
We float along in peace, none of us in any kind of hurry.

By Grace Or By Witchcraft

All of us without exception laughed:
On the Pacific Ocean a raft!
Why would one big waters dare with craft
And hope to make it without witchcraft?

All the big lips in the small room laughed:
One saw a snake's fangs and cold beer quaffed!
A nice tale but the teller just daft,
My cash not leaving my pocket's baft.

Life As a Raft

If I could be a raft
I would gladly rescue you
If I could be a branch 
I would float as close to you as I could 
so that you could grab a hold of my buoyancy
If I were a rainbow I would shine 
just so you 
would feel hope
If I were a sparrow
I would lite upon

Torch Lake - No More Troubles

I swear the seagull’s cry
Mimics the tantrum
Of a waddling toddler in diapers
Who’s stepped on a thorn on shore

I listen from a distance
Not my trouble

How many perfect sticks have I thrown to Torch Lake
That have escaped the interest of my dog?

Maybe those temptations will reunite
Far away near the Yacht Club
Gathered and tied together
To make their own

Ark Raft Wreck

Seeing the darkened clouds
accumilate

I spy through my mind's
eye

And feel the stormy winds
acidic rain sting all about
my naked face 

And hasten hastenly to build 
myself an ark / raft fit purpose
bespoke for wrecking

Using any material disposable
close to hand i can possibly find

So none the less i can sail
away above the crashing
tidal wave of black foam
pushing back

And

On Losing My Friends

A fog moved in as we floated on a raft in the middle of a licorice ocean
and friends began dropping off into the sea swimming towards land I could not see and I wanted to go with them but I was afraid and then I tried but something held me back and plunged me from

I'M a Broken Man

I’m a broken man
don’t know who to trust.
Being a broken man
allows you not to trust.

I’m a broken man
with lots of blood,
bleeding from the heart like a river.
Being a broken man
helps people raft on the red stream
And they don’t give a damn, whether you die in shiver

The moon is the only friend
who acknowledges my tears.
Stars, like

A Raft Made of Bones

After their patriarch died,
sea witches circled the night.
Those left behind clung to hope 
on a raft made of his bones,
until sharkness devoured the light.

In a New Raft of Life

Perchance is death a deep unaware sleep
Bestowed to help forget what all had been, 
And soul that must depart a date to keep,
Should soon, with a baggage of debt unseen,
Summoned when to heavenly firmament,
Divinity where sits in sole judgment—
Day of reckoning to review progress—
Correcting course, Day of Judgment for some,
Soul standing trial, soul the sole

His Raft

Standing upon a floating raft, 
Where he roams he does not know,
With nothing shading above his head, 
And nothing stored below,

His hope, his mind, it drifts along, 
Thoughts bobbing up and down,
Until he sees truth in the dark, 
The vision is profound,

He’s drifting because she pushed him, 
Pushed him from the land,
Pushed him out to

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