Short Docks Poems

the docks
a bent old man on the pier
cleaning catfish...

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beneath the broken docks of socialism    ripples and flashes of freedom...

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trailers in the docks 
crooked tilted trailer doors 
poor yard truck driver...

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you can't park a boat
nor saddle a goat
but you can pay the price
enjoy chicken fried rice...

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I need not
these whoremoans
nor this 
baby baking box
nor does my lover
need me flopping
like a flounder
on the docks...

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Aquamarines

the secular bay
surrounding the open wooden docks 
becomes my new home
I love to feel the sunshine
return to the outer zones


10-20-12

contest...

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The glass of a brown
house portrays the apricot 
clouds from which peek a chilled blue,

and the docks the tints
of trampled sand- mocha hues-
as a new oil painting....

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Tick tock, broke rocks
Speed trap, day naps
Heartbreak, heaven sake
Truck stop, kick rocks
Boon-docks, Stop watch

12/15/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...

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SHIVER ME TIMBERS!

Once a cut-throat and cannon ball dodger
Now a one legged salty old codger
But when ship enters docks he
Will look up an old doxy
And hoist up with a good Jolly Roger...

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Indian met white man at the docks.
Taught him to plant corn and shared his flocks.
White man gave disease and grief,
Stole his lands like common thief.
Indian lucky to keep his mocs.

Tenth place...

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Moments of bravery should not be ignored
My vision of beauty adores
Sea as bright
As ocean whites
Birds do flock
Along the docks
Enchanted chase 
You reach your place
Moments of peace
We must release...

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Gray ships
Docks and ports

Palm trees 
And mangoes

Fresh breeze
Wide relief


A night on shore
Red lips, hot breath

Oh, no
Baby wails

Woman sits on golden land
Bundle in hand

Agony
The choice....

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FOG   HORN

Almost imperceptible on the coast,
Pandora, lost but persistent,
Calls across the far river docks
For lock to open ashore

Calls like a brother ghost,
Far across time’s river sent
To unlock my memory box
And open its half-lost store....

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So glad I did not 
Get stuck with someone 
I can't stand 
In the end 
Smooth sailing
From here on out 
Till this ship finally
Reaches port 
And docks forever more
And the passengers all
Go there separate ways 
Never to cross paths again...

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Desuetude is a state of disuse.
"The docks fell into desuetude."

Trump In State of Desuetude

Trump would find self  in another feud;
He had fallen into a state of desuetude;
Things worsed;
Were cursed;
We wondered who next will be screwed.

Jim Horn...

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Springtime
Waves crashing against docks
Flowers blooming by the rocks
Animals starting to wake
The Great Bear with a backache

Springtime
Spring will come, all in good time

Springtime
Is here to stay

Springtime
Mother Nature has to decide
Whether to stay or hide...

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They gave voice to voiceless souls--
To poor with day-to-day goals,
Then came vigilant watchdogs,
People’s voice lingered in docks,
Virtually back to whence started,
Voice of the voiceless now vetted.
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   Reflections | 07.03.2017 |...

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Eyes see whatever they want
legs step wherever they are placed
ears hear whatever is available
but eyes, legs, ears  at work
are freelance investigative journalists
which upon offence of the laws
escape justice, and place the body
in the docks for investigation
torture and all forms of abuse...

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I scamper across moss covered rocks

In just my socks

The clock ticks and tocks

and i find myself along side the locks

Watching boats settle into the docks

and i watch as they snear, because their jocksI 

turn away and head back to my rocks

Listening to the water's ticks and tocks...

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Ascending number of waves flow
Ultimate beads of ripples grow
Tensionless journey through the wind
Onto dry sand it smiles and grins
Politely moisting nearby rocks
Intricate rainbows form on docks
Laudable detail with each splash
Ornate sea treasures in a cache
These depths of matter can flummox....

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From blue collar workers 
tool and dye filling the 
slots more jobs more 
job awesome tower 
city the flats the docks 
Cleveland rock and roll 
hall of fame the Browns 
the beaches no more 
fake news finally on 
board with the best 
of the best Donald 
Trump wins you know it 
you’re hired best poet...

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The thorns have come for me
Her deadly flower walks
There's more for taking me
to deadly hallow docks

What once was gracing me
now trecherous goary blocks
When now I come to see
her hoary marry mocks

That now  I know to see
more caring fair-thee flocks
So all I love to see
is sparing tarry gawks...

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Skyline of rowed houses
Rolls past and
So do the greys of labour, 
Conservative and otherwise
Are boarded on the decks of
Oil tankers; hollow
Hulking HMS something
Sleeps in the docks
Of the town once red
Now muddy brown
And sick, 
Labour wise and 
Reading Caledonia.

Aberdeen 2012 on route to Shetland...

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Spritely now, powdered grains brush on the docks
And then rouse four winds,draped among treetops
Naming stars, through far up painted moonlight
Dressed in rhinestones , gold-dust hails summer rites.



For Andrea Dietrich's Contest
Four-Letter Words:An Acrostic ChallengePoetry 
28 August 13...

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I am a gnu but I wanted to be an ox.
Or an antelope or artic fox.
Enlightened by summer’s equinox,
Rowing my boat like a well-trained cox,
Please meet me today down by the docks.
Where maidens preen in pretty flowered frocks.
But do not wear those stupid ugly argyle socks.
I will be the large one wearing the face of the ox....

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