Reaching Out
...
Tossing electronically-bottled messages
into the wild blue sea yonder
will they float like a boat or sink like a stone
it only makes me ponder
as optimistically-inclined
I often wonder...
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Categories:
sargasso, computer, humor, humorous, word
Form: Rhyme
Whither the Fates Carry
...Whither the Fates Carry
Anchors aweigh in 1609, Anno Domini!
A convoy of ships laden with cargo set sail
And departed Plymouth harbour to cross the Atlantic
For Jamestown, Virginia, in t...
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Categories:
sargasso, fate, history, ocean, storm,
Form: Verse
Beneath Unknown Shores
...Beneath Unknown Shores
Waves envelop the steel keel of a massive cruise liner
Off rails eyes hypnotized sense serenity on indigo bay
Cloudles...
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Categories:
sargasso, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
The Opposite of Anadromous - An Eelogy
...The word is Catadromous
just in case you need it for
your Final Jeopardy and if
I was writing rhyme, this is
where I’d throw in cantankerous
for Eels are a contrary lot, and
unlike salmon who ...
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Categories:
sargasso, environment, fish,
Form: Free verse
The Complete Jackass Collection - From Bad Seed Press
...GONE with the JACKASS
SOMETHING JACKASS this WAY COMES
Of MICE AND JACKASSES
The GRAPES of JACKASS
MOBY JACKASS
JACKASS in the RYE
I KNOW WHY the JACKASS SINGS
The GREAT JACKASS
JACKASS of th...
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Categories:
sargasso, allegory, humor, literature,
Form: List
Empty Ships and Fools
...empty vessels sail
the vast Sargasso Sea
tides and currents carry
what lost horizons see
in azure-blue waters
circling sharks seek appease
linger not sleeping
beneath churning deceitful ...
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Categories:
sargasso, love,
Form: Rhyme
Another Man's Treasure
...
"Another Man’s Treasure"
Jetsam tumbles
broken doorbells
no one
answers
anymore
ironing boards
pressing to imprint
something of signifi...
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Categories:
sargasso, baptism, romance, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Invisible
...
"Invisible"
Trapped
within
4 Walls
A ghost
escapes
it's prison
through
unlocked door
beyond
freefall
a bird
now soars
The ...
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Categories:
sargasso, imagery, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Midnight To 3:33 Morning Kills
...
"Midnight to 3.33, Morning Kills"
He said,
“Go to where the poets go
Love rolls wet and sways
Intensity wraps itself inside out
and somersau...
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Categories:
sargasso, feelings, freedom, muse,
Form: Free verse
Navigator of Me
...I notice the waves, the tides
of the lulls, the sargasso,
I live the sea in me ... I suffer
from navigated waters,
of the sunken loves ...
...
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Categories:
sargasso, allusion, confidence, imagination, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
On a Passing Cloud There Floats a Dream
...Do you ever lie down in grass and gaze,
pretend no duties call and let mind float,
play which knight wins the furious battle
somewhere in the wisps above daylong haze?
A lizard morphs into war ...
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Categories:
sargasso, dream, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
I Roundly Square Prayer
...I Roundly Square Prayer...
Despite imprecations
yielding "FAKE" impact
upon the head of this atheist,
especially when thy
(untamable) shrewish wife
takes umbrage against t...
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Categories:
sargasso, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Modal Verbs
...Savez vous planter les choux
A la mode de chez nous?
(French nursery rhyme)
You should eat your cabbage up my son
It's really quite delicious
May I forego the pleasure Ma
To me it is pernici...
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Categories:
sargasso, language,
Form: Rhyme
A Boy's Own Hero
...Dad is long gone now - nearly twenty years.
I still see his face with the deep lines etched
at the corners of his mouth from the beers
he’d consumed with smacking lips - beer I’d fetched
home in ...
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Categories:
sargasso, adventure, appreciation, bereavement, celebration,
Form: Ottava rima
Angelique
...Oh immortal sorceress, daughter of Lilith
She is a prism in the moonlight, a deity
Darker than the Sargasso sea, her fury is
Unforgiving as the Titans came to
Recognize all because of their je...
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Categories:
sargasso, adventure, fantasy, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
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