Short Lifeboats Poems

Steaming out on her maiden voyage

Lifeboats bob chaotically in the screaming waters...

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                         “Friends are the lifeboats, that save 
                           us, in the ravages of life’s storms!”


                                        3/14/2024

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The massive ship and hopes were lost
No lifeboats left for passengers
Their lips were blue, skin bit by frost
The massive ship and hopes were lost
Atlantic Ocean not yet crossed
The radar failed, no messengers
The massive ship and hopes were lost
No lifeboats left for passengers


*Written August 28, 2014 for Sara's "Zeugma" contest...

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Titanic down 
Lifeboats adrift
Many saved 
Many missed
 
On the scene " The Carpathia "
To the saved ones
The real White Star
Off she steams
New York ahead
Leaving behind many dead
 
Pier 54 this saviour docks
As New Yorkers race to flock
To witness survivors of this tragic ship
On her Maiden Voyage did she trip
 
April 14th, 1912 she shone
April 15th, 1912 she was gone....

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As the flames a blazed and the torches illuminated the crying shouts of the night
Like steeples of lonely souls on shattered islands yearning for lifeboats
Like reddish cherry drowned in a sea of blood entwining sweetness with sourly fluid
Like a naked smile in a funeral of the dead hiding sadness behind a lying face searching for strength
New bonds created amidst of war like glistening stars in the dying space.

12/3/2012...

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Let me be your wings~
as you reach the sky
and the flight seems so endless.

Let me be your life jacket~
when you're drowning in the sea
and lifeboats aren't in sight.

Let me be your firelight~ 
to keep you warm
midst windy wintry eve.

Let me be your star~
on moonless lonely nights
and your eyes aglow no more.

Let me be your heartbeats~
now and forever ...
through all eternity.




12.30.2020

To my beloved husband on his birthday....

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