Odyssey From Africa - Stargazing 1
...King Ptolemy the Second (cont.)
Sleek of line for speedy sailing
It was rugged in construction
Several layers of well cured timber
Lined the hull and bridge and gunwales
There were four ...
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Categories:
shipbuilding, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
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:
shipbuilding, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Hull, City of Culture 2017
...Hull is the great and unique city where I was born
Sitting on the Humber estuary...proud and all alone
Known for keeping Charles I and his army out through courage and bravery
Also the birthplace ...
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Categories:
shipbuilding, birth, city, culture, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Should I Tellyou of What I Think In Or Out of the Eu
...>First, we own no fishing fleet.
A fleet that’s ours, catching fish, for us to eat.
I hope that last line, does sound right.
As of our fishing fleet, I have no sight.
Digging coal from online (...
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Categories:
shipbuilding, change, destiny, education, emotions,
Form: I do not know?
The Glasgow Clearances
...After the end of World War One
The world said Scotland shipbuilding is done,
No longer would anyone pay their bills
For lowland coal and cotton mills.
Fifty thousand Scots per year
Boarded sh...
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Categories:
shipbuilding, history
Form: Rhyme
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
...NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, ENGLAND
Half-Scot, half-English and ill at ease with the past,
Newcastle is sooty black from its coaly drama,
And the breathless town was always in a hurry to gro...
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Categories:
shipbuilding, urban
Form: Free verse
Shipbuilding In the Usa
...!
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(To)
(build)
(anything)
(is not easy.
((To built in))
(America you)
(((need palms)))
((greasy. Palms))
(of Congressmen)
a few Senators to
(so a new frontier)
((can be made fo...
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Categories:
shipbuilding, adventure, political
Form: Shape