Past Paradise
...Over lush green mounds
Did stand many thriving towns
They did spread over vast azure pools
With help from shipbuilders' mighty tools
And mighty were the first to land on those shores
Valiant are...
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Categories:
shipbuilders, fantasy, history, literature, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Odyssey From Africa 11d
...Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 11 (d) cont...
Thus the boarding of the parties
Was a speedy operation
Very soon the whole flotilla
Sailed toward the open ocean
This wide bay from which the s...
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Categories:
shipbuilders, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Fredrick - September 12, 1979
...He was coming.
He was coming fast.
He was coming to pay us a visit.
A brooding, lethal monster 30 miles out.
He was coming straight at us
and nothing or no one could stop him
Our house was on...
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Categories:
shipbuilders, house, natural disasters, weather,
Form: Narrative
Shadows of Yesterday In Me.
...I am the son of Britain and Californian
Reared of Europe and the American Revolution
Progeny of English countryside and Frisco Bay
Yet despite all I have come to understand
The puzzle i...
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Categories:
shipbuilders, family, history, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse