Short Atolls Poems

  A poet's job's
    not to incite a mob
  Or to fan red-hot
    flames ever higher

  Rather, to remove
    those hot coals
   and replant them
    on peaceful atolls
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Extinction






Annihilation of atolls,
Extinction of species
maybe an act or fact of life,
Natural or by human hunt
calls for reinforcement,

But at times I feel....

There must be more content in death 
than life could ever provide.
Unknown unsung lives
now in mention- the extinct.




Written Jan 5th, 2015
For contest by Anthony Slausen...

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(and now the ship moved on....)
She took us like a valiant steed,
from coast 
to islands free,
where Tongan tapas decked the halls,
of South Pacific glee,
Marquesas, atolls, 
reefs and pearls,
far away lands
grass skirts, dancing girls!
(and now the ship moved on.....)
The dream fulfilled,
we headed back,
her wooden body held wind slack.
We heard her fate,
she sank one day,
that boat was old, she had her way....
(and now the ship moved on)...

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Primal Language										 

 

Speaking gutturally in the fractured  

Fragments of a foreign language, 

A tongue unknown to her 

 

She is come from another country 

gesturing with her hands 

Between the islands of broken English 

 

Within her hesitations are the silent 

Stutters of clarity 

Using  her body as a  language					 

 

I know what she is asking 

Between the atolls of words 

Are oceans of sterling imagery



John Tansey...

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We are mislabeled as sea birds and should be called
big birds, like that yellow one but we're not yellow.
We never land on land for a year or longer, and we
been told that we have known God since he was a
little boy. The unfeathered say that for a very long
time we're like many fishes in the sea, but now we
are like whales. The few of us left, live in the north
atolls of Hawaii. There's no other place in the world
except for oceans, seas, bays ... forget what I said.
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