Short Gibraltar Poems

I have seen the Rock
and I don't mean Dwayne Johnson
Rock of Gibraltar...

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I went with my son to Gibraltar
We went for a swim in the water
An errant propeller
Chopped off his old feller
So now I just call him my daughter...

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There once was a man from Gibraltar,
Who didn't do what he oughter?
He wore gigantic big socks,
That he filled up with rocks
He also stole bricks, stones and mortar....

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There once were two giraffes from Gibraltar,
Saw a banquet and said, "do ya think that we oughta?"
Well as long as we're fast,
We'll have to make this our last,
As your groom's been waiting a day at the altar.
...

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I think like a buddhist
but pray like a nun

I see like the mountain
but reach like the sun

I stand like Gibraltar
but rage like the sea

And love like a child
—reborn unto Thee

(First Book Of Prayers: May, 2017)...

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I think like a Buddhist,
but pray like a nun

I see like the mountain,
but reach like the sun

I stand like Gibraltar,
but rage like the sea

And love like a child
—reborn unto Thee

(1st Book Of Prayers: May, 2017)...

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I think like a Buddhist,
  but pray like a nun

I see like the mountain,
  but reach like the sun

I stand like Gibraltar,
  but rage like the sea

And love like a child,
  reborn unto thee

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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At the altar, the defaulter
Recognises his slip
Firm not like rock of Gibraltar
He sees his soul stance dip

In time he'll realise
It's best to vaporise
Ascent’s when ego dies

Let's not falter
At the altar

04-December-2022
Quietus...

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No Halter and Will Falter

An ego likes leading you to the altar
And may be big as rock of Gibraltar
She had forgotten to wear her halter
Then both of them started to falter.

Interesting

James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
River Sea Plantation
Bolivia, NC...

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I must dream by a mountain
and knell by the bells
cliche after cliche
is my calling
From  Gibraltar to the Pennines
I see the lemmings meet their master
But the fireside grows dim
the crows come home to roost
Playing a deadly Violin Concerto
by the ghost riders byeway
As a single tree props the World...

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Rabat is a black pearl
   Of cellophanic rainbow
Gazing upon waves that curl
   And lick a shore little known.

Gibraltar is the dock
   Where it steadfast moors –
Enjoying sailboats that flock
   The Mediterranean course

Yet Barbary lions live
   Not far, in the Rif Mountains –
Golden, assertive –
   Their kasbah amid the grass....

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Oh, I loved her then
I placed her on high
Far above mortals
Where the air was thin
She handled it well

As the years passed
Love was still true
A stranger came
With ill intent

Then she stopped
Loving me
I could see

And my 
Whole world

Fell

12-9-19
Contest: Pick A Title, Vol 12 - Diminished Hexaverse
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh...

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the wrath of death's hands
like the lash of sea
erodes the edges
of my weary soul
with its unseen force

i am battered
bruised once again
emotions stir
inside my core

rock to sand
gibraltar
crumbling down

i fight
against

time

December 22, 2019

Pick A Title, Vol 12 - Diminished Hexaverse- Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh...

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Earth trembles in fear
Once-mighty nations
Beset by strong threats
See America,
Defender supreme

Devastated,
Alarmed to see
Their Gibraltar
Wounded, crumbling

USA,
Fighting blades
Of our foes

Treaties
Destroyed

War





Posted on January 7, 2020
N/A in Edward Ibeh’s “Pick a Title, Volume 12, Diminished Hexaverse contest
Judged 1/9/2020...

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even with an upturned boulder
sitting solid like Gibraltar
the blazing fire 
has not been quenched
Too many pails
have been drenched,
punctured and patched 
while drawing out water
to douse this blazing fire
from raging into a fiery sun
blistering the skin
scorching the minds
while intending 
to obliterate the soul
making the man meaningless
because of your own dark souls...

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Form: Acrostic
Look in your eyes unveils a smoldering ember that could make Gibraltar crumble.
One in a million heart that magically kindles fire without matches. Nothing...
Ventured, nothing gained in this rewarding game of love; a four letter word that
Emanates such sweet ecstasy. And no, I don't mean the drug
I
Just
Enjoy
Saving souls
Unrepented to
Saviour is also here for you...

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The Dune on the Rock
    where fine grains of time     
gradually slip
revealing footprints
of lost vertebrates:

an archaic 
human being -
Neanderthal;
red deer, aurochs

elephants
and ibex…
crumbling sand

unveils
extinct 

past

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Contest: Pick a Title Vol 12
Diminished Hexaverse
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Title: Gibraltar Crumbling
19th December 2019...

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I have blown by the rock of Gibraltar
 and whispered to the waves of the sea
 I have heard the dolphins laughter
 as I travel ever free

 I have been to the highest mountain
 Cause I journey far and wide
 I am here in every season
 From me you cannot hide

 In summer I will gently caress your face
 But in winter I'll be fierce
 I'll be there in spring's embrace
 In autumn, the leaves I'll chase

 8-26-2023...

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THE END OF ISLAM 



On the bay beach at Belyounech
Just east of Tangier
From the old whaling Station 
You can see Algeciras and Gibraltar
And there on the beach look up
And see the Rif of the Atlas 
With beyond them ten thousand miles 
Of Sahara sand and muezzins on minarets.
The northern horizon exudes
The smells of hot-dogs 
And the sounds of Pink Floyd.
The south shore on the beach
Is the end of Islam....

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I depend on the rock of Gibraltar
No rock like this 
I know
No rock, no rock, no rock
With  waters flowing so
No rock with waters flowing row
No rock to stabilize my mind
No rock is all I have ever stumbled at
No rock to bring release
No rock to stabilize me
I depend on the rock of Gibraltar
My faith depends on him
There's no rock like him
There's no rock like the rock of Gibraltar
There's no rock, no rock, no rock like him...

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pour it like the sun is dead.
but not
before shaking it well.

wait,
wat is je naam?
my father is half-Dutch.
stay with me, Martinique 
(that name tag is lovely)
I have not been happy.

little umbrellas tickle
my imagination -
Gibraltar or Ithaca
or Room 143 beside yours.

is this safe, Martinique?
fifteen proof is my ceiling
but I do not care.

look,
your skin ring matches mine.
sorry -

Ik ben blij,
but I do not speak French....

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Look in your eyes unveils a smoldering ember that could make Gibraltar crumble.
One in a million heart that magically kindles fire without matches. Nothing...
Ventured, nothing gained in this rewarding game of love; a four letter word that
Emanates such sweet ecstasy. And no, I don't mean the drug.



Universal Acrostic Collaboration Poetry Contest/Winner(1st Place)
Sponsored by: Steven Henderson
Date written: and posted 04/01/2016...

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the insistent dragons are back
I watch them fly over Gibraltar hill.
Outside petunias are crowding toward the house
There is a castle waiting for me in the distance

I move closer to the lace curtains.
Wanting to get a better look at my destiny.
Find myself staring at the woman I will be one day.
She gives me a resigned look.

Teddy bear sidles closer, and I cuddle him.
My school work can wait.
The dragons have a message.
I strain to hear, to understand, to be the real me....

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