Short Any Port In A Storm Poems

leaving port in a storm
                             the not so swift
                             family robinson...

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Three
	….. huddle in a wet doorway
					……brown bag sipping
								   ….any port in a storm.


								John G. Lawless
								©3/3/2018...

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my wife
an elder
a port in a storm
through history
a woman, a comrade in arms

but where would I be without you? helpless
in the jungle
in a shooting star

my wife,...

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Mister Donald J. Trump went on a cruise
Got lathered up on martinis and booze --
   In glided Stormy  
   Trump was so horny -- 
 For his latest 'position,' watch the news!...

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Her soft bosom
Her tender lap
Where a man unwinds ~
 Unburdens his heart
 To a sympathetic mind

Port in the storm
Oasis -- to restore, refresh
 Without strings attached
 Constricted or enmeshed...

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my mother
you hold my heart
beautiful inside and out
a mother, a steadfast companion
a port in a storm
through the night

you are the one
in space and time
in history
a steadfast bond to never break...

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Clutching a sapling
  no port in the storm
Torn from its moorings
  No hope to keep warm

A waif of a girl
  wrapped in shawl and waistcoat
She’d not survive long
  her voice stuck in her throat…

When the blizzard abated
  she was found frozen stiff
buried alive ‘neath a snowmound
  Mother Nature not a finger did lift...

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It had been a wild ride
He'd been tossed about
The sea swept the decks
And the sails blown out

Down below in the cabin
Belongings were scattered
Everything was wet - but
Only one thing mattered

Safe anchor was needed
And he needed it fast
He saw what he needed
And went for the glass

The crisis was saved
It was liquid and warm
Always remember -
Any port in a storm...

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Damning two lies
with only one truth
Deception remixes 
like gin and vermouth

Jumping from one
as the other got hot
Port in the storm
where perdition is fraught     

Grace in short order
 with blessings denied 
Thomas redoubting
 all faith circumscribed  

Prevarication
twin sister of pain
The Word caught between them
—trapped to remain

(The New Room: July, 2023)...

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Professors found a haven in academia
    a safe port in the storm of big business' toxemia  
  As meaningful as writing articles for encyclopedias
    as daring as interning for social media... 
 
  So now Professor's young charges want 'safe spaces'
    far away from the slug-it-out world of rat races
  Let me prove my point, get down to actual cases
    to ensure I've covered my derriere and other places...

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I fell for your Ocean eyes
The aloe on your skin
Waves breaking in your voice
Sunshine dancing in your laugh 

Those candles you burn
' Carmel corn' , 'the boardwalk'
Wafting through the air
An endless summer in your 
house

The cherry watermelon salad 
You feed me;
Picnics under the stars,
A long walk by the sea

 Contaminating my thoughts 
Like a hurricane landing on 
shore,
The ocean in your eyes hit me;
Your my Port and my Storm...

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Broad in the beam
not much of a looker
this crusty rust-bucket
of nuts screws and bolts
is a crabby old hooker
as luck would have it
dolled up trolling for supper
at any port in a storm
she still gives good service
tho' down on her uppers
now showing her years
deep in the scuppers
yet still on the game
fishing by night for a living
not to sully or bruise her good name
tho' one might unduly call her
a 'Cruiser'
this goodly vessel is truly a trawler
...

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