Short Keel Over Poems

The ones as pure as steel 
Will never accidentally keel...

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Jesus feel
Hell so real!
Crucified
Died
Humans on even keel...

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Selling
SongsToSetToMusic
to sail
a dying craft
its keel
and rudder
gone
laying waste in
vast
the need
for poetry...

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Dragons for their keel
Rowing oars instead of wheels
Their ships rock and reel

By Robb A. Kopp
©2010 All Rights Reserved...

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Remain on an even keel through life
Can be challenging at times, lotsa strife
What I've found though
Be silly, trust me you know
Just march along to a drum and fife...

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beyond and below
beneath the cosmic tide
I awoke today to see
with the sun above
my shadow held tight
for lack of shade
as I crawl beneath
remnant chaparral
with this desert scruff
I scrub my bones...

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Remaining on an even keel through life
Can be challenging at times, lotsa strife
Here's what I've found though
Just be silly, trust me I know
Works for me, march along to a drum and fife...

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ambling along with zest and zeal
feeling in fullness, life’s appeal
this here now moment all there is
enlivening it with bliss fizz
tranquil presence on even keel

05-September-2021...

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I understand and respect the way you feel.
I know a desire to be sexy is your freewheel.
you eat once a day ....since May you never betray.
keep holding on just for more few days and you will be a keel.
 by: 2clean #Limerick...

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I almost think you're
 killing me inside.
 No, it must be me.
 I'm mentally killing myself,
 keel hauled over wishes
 and wonderings and dreams.
 You say there's no hope
 but my heart doesn't hear.
 You say you're truly sorry
 but I can't believe the end.
 Can happiness truly return
 after such devistation?...

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A black-haired dirty thinker
your words invade my head;
where lust and thirst become me
and love will see me dead.

Your body build a sailing ship.
Your keel at my back.
Your nods upon the ocean-
my death from your attack.

A bum to form a segment.
A fruit as firm as day.
A touch to stun the surface.
A helm to clear the way....

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over the rainbow
into the sky
mind over matter
up on a high,
heads are spinning
eyes are blurred
lights are flashing
voices heard.
mind is full 
of thoughts unreal
body unsteady
ready to keel. 
limbs are weak
balance is blind
left all senses
far behind.
Over the rainbow
into the sky
gone to far
left to die....

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(Latin Ultra=above & beyond + crepis-idis=sole,keel.) 

In the 19th century this term became popular in Britain.
It says about a person, (though none asked who came unbidden)
and she has the habit of judging or giving opinions
advice on matters beyond sphere of knowledge, shares her thinking.
~X~X~X~
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My keel is not even
but hey
it's the cards
that's been dealin' round here.

Caulkin' the chances
'neath tile and romances
choked neath the vernacular
sneer.

Wanna keep talkin'?
Machete's out walkin'
the dog with no map
nothin' much wrong with that

Right, wrong
wanders woe wistfully
waiting weird wonderfully
whispering.

Well
hell
who'da thunk?...

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I see the edge of your smile
and the tip of your varnished toe,
the waterfall of your flaxen hair
that makes your shadow grow:
Love!  I am the one, who loves 
you as the day.
To lose you makes me shudder
like a mast on a blustered  day;
Keel-haul and whip my hopeless love
Send my soul to hell
But let me call before I die,
Love! I am the one....

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This expert excursion...

sweet sweet soliloquy?

Checking every bucket box,

chiming like strife to be?


Frank Zappa may have had his platter eaten- 

Joseph Gobbles his Dotton feelie' wheels,

but made the park his whole weighted keel?


When you wouldn't leave the stuffy car to pray for a deal?

How can the forcery stars not end up real?...

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Why do I feel so low today?
I trust that if I kneel and pray,
my sincere appeal for help will convey
high hopes He’ll hold my troubles at bay.
By default, I get off-keel and lose my way,
sigh, and say, “Lord, heal my hurt; dispel my dismay.”


June 28, 2020
Entered in the Triple Rhyme Contest                Placed 2nd
Sponsor: Beth Evans...

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We took a risk; it worked out fine
But not without some stressing,
For everything in life requires
A fair amount of guessing.

Without such chances, we remain
Upon an even keel,
A little bored, perhaps, but hey,
Quite safe – that’s the appeal.

I’m usually risk-averse
But sometimes I get shaken
From my comfort zone and afterwards,
Feel glad it was forsaken....

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There was a mighty head of state
who thought he was like God.
Within the prercincts of his  house
all feared his heavy plod.
We now hear many stories,
 some of which appal,
of crashing crockery on the floor
 and ketchup on the wall,
and how the hand that held the helm
grabbed his driver's steering wheel.
Many a good ship did capsize
for want of a steady keel....

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Sighting 

Far out the on the Pacific ocean
I saw a ship sailing upside down
A fata morgana, a mirror from another
Dimension sailing on the outside
Of the horizon.
The explanation given was trite 
I preferred to believe in a world outside 
Our horizon that is limitless. 
Everything is true, and everything is false
The keel of the phantom ship was held
Up by blues clouds....

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SURREALITY

How does one know if it’s surreal
Cold logic sometimes plays its part
Is it what’s known or what you feel
When it’s a dimensional shift

It’s more likely brain, not the heart
With many images to steal
Yet Moebius loops have no start

As a supplicant, one should kneel
In the presence of abstract art
Whilst keeping on an even keel
When it’s a dimensional shift
...

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Death, 
apostle of deep gloom, 
wingless spectre, 
mutinous apparition, 
beautiful shadow, 
hold firm the prow and keel, 
and provoke not the gentle embers of flesh under fire, 
those delicate beacons of light, 
splitting shadows with each shattered photon, 
piercing the anarchy of night’s eternal illusion, 
God particle, 
divine paradox, 
cupped in the palm…oh human child....

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I can fix this
But I can't fix you
Being too near you
For too long
Unfixes me

But standing by
Knowing
You are broken
Breaks me
In two

Then I feel
Too much to bear
Reliving chaos
Knowing it's been
Constant for you

Place you
On an even keel
Aware
It will last shorter
Than my drive home

Thinking hard
What will make
The change
This time
Nothing springs to mind...

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Their wings get clipped
their tails get tied
with nets restrained 
ensnared
horns cut off,
left for dead…

The hunters became the hunted
for their horns,
for their skin
all in the name of greed,
earth’s balance thrown off keel…

Humans invaded their territory
their free reign taken away,
chased out of their habitat
in the cycle of life,
their survival became unsure
their possible extinction a harsh reality…...

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Sometimes I just sit and ponder, 
what the true meaning of lifes all about; 
Try and figure out my insucurites, 
and the reason Im so full of doubt, 
Maybe Im too hard on myself, 
with the pressure I apply from within; 
Maybe I want too much to fast, 
here comes doubt creeping in again. 
How can I find a balance in life, 
where I float with an even keel? 
Not worrying about the future, 
or losing for life its zeal?...

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