Short Cargo Poems

bedouin camel
plods over familiar grains
bearing rich cargo...

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Run a way truckers 
abandoning trucks and loads
serious problem...

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A feathered cargo,
black shroud of migrating birds.
Mysteries abound....

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ship docking
on Saturn IV -
Venusian cargo
...

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Bluebird now descends
Carrying precious cargo,
Girlhood dreams rebloom'd...

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Honey bee lies dead— 
Cargo pants with pollen stuffed
—
Mission incomplete...

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the ghost white moon
a haunted galley ship
that sail her cargo
through the dark wine sea...

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A train came rolling by,
dropping off people and cargo.
It's time to watch it go.
It's time to say goodbye....

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Across the face of an ember sun
A boat cloud sailed,
From out of gray
Itself did show
A cargo vessel
Bound for things West way....

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Why is it that when you send something by CAR, it's called a SHIPment, 
but when you transport something by SHIP, CARgo is how it's sent?...

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There was an old man from Fargo,
With a wife whose name was Margo.
They were quite the pair
Neither had much hair
They traveled the world with no cargo!...

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The Suez Canal is finally free
Precious toilet paper can come to me
This too large cargo ship
In the world a backward flip
Twas as crazy as Boston Harbor's tea...

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Come on guys I really need to go.
My inside are about to blow,
This line is way too long,
No time to sing a song.
I am filled with messy cargo....

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With the wagon rolling forward on Square Wheels and a cargo of round rubber tires, the wagon pushers need change.

Are Bosses unaware?
Square Wheels are always thumping.
Listen. Small improvements here....

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Just as the wind has come about
And it's time to change tack;
There's a new hand on the tiller
Of the mutinous, rudderless boat;
Now doomed to float aimlessly,
Until it arrives at an uncharted port
Its cargo spoiled, wasted, ruined....

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The railroad cars rumble 
they tremble, pushing forth
tracks of steel guide the way
tons of heavy cargo
tired passengers gaze out
trees whisk past their windows 
trekking towards the sun. 











A Pleiades Poem
9/30/2022...

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Runaway Train

    Conductor No Brain


Off His Track
     Didn't Look Back


Cargo Debris
   Blowing In Breeze


Poor Boxcar Willie
       Got Knocked Silly


Sam The Man
      Was Simply Canned 

I Did Yell
    What The Hell...

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The curtain of love 
Has been drawn
Behind the closed stage
Of your eyelids
There is no light
To fondle the fading fondness
Your attitude
Has risen to another altitude
And our ship
Like a blind sheep
Has stumbled on an iceberg
Crushing our loving cargo...

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Maunakea comes
into view. Coastlines 
from right side windows.
Hilo, my hometown.
Soon we’ll be landing.

I feel the plane
stop and cargo
door with luggage
bumps hold, thumps ramp.

Passengers
and crew says
Aloha.

Flowered
crowned lei.

FRUITS!
...

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Verse is but a vehicle
to where my words are bound

The cargo much more precious
than structure that surrounds

The driving force empowered,
hands firm upon the wheel

The road to ever open up
—with all I say and feel

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: March, 2021)...

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The clouds are dark
Beneath the sky
My tears are black
I won’t ask why
The rain falls back
I start to sigh
This burden rock
I can’t defy
I’m always mock
Even they lie
Have no such luck
With that one guy
He mess me up
I can’t deny
My heart is lock
Until I die...

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I’m like a freight train,

That holds everything everyone needs.

That is rusty and old and slow,

And loud and annoying and gets in the way.

But never gives up.

And always brings cargo that will one day belong to someone else.

Cargo that will one day belong....

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We are chained together
Beneath the belly of 
This cold dark slave ship
Drowning in this sea of humanity
Hundreds of captured slaves
Peeking through the wooden cracks
Praying for the slanted light
To touch and free their souls
This human cargo 
Bound for the new world...

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Commodities.
Packed up
Wedged together
Shut out from light and air, 
Little creatures indifferent to life or death
Stacked.
Branded.
Horrified
Of what comes
With the open door.
Looking for the first opportunity
To Leap
Escape
This intolerable life.
The Mass grave
Of a two-dimensional reality....

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Inside its tiny brain,
does it think?
"I'm a cargo plane."

Or does it
imagine acrobatic feats?

Does it hear
its wings sound zooms?
As it flies across a room.
Imagining,
“I have flown 
to the moon!”

Likely though,
there is no thought.
Mercifully when
in a spider’s web,
CAUGHT!...

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