Short Port Poems

Rap
  +
Port
  =
Rapport...

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Fire on the Port Side
In-port Fire Party Respond
a sailor's duty...

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embark in the adventure called life...although  final port is unknown...

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Wispy toadstool ring 
dewdrops pepper the ground;
Port key of the Fey....

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harsh winter is near
sailing boats vanish in port -
umbrellas unfurled.
...

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Too optimistic 
The pipe dreamer that waits for 
Ships that don’t leave port....

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Alexandria is very great chief sea port
it is very nice in summer time city coast...

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With
welcome
arms and an
ever open
door

Ekphrasis after St Mary Le Port by Piper...

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Spring port
Full of peace
Suddenly the whistle of the ship 
drives the pigeons into the sky...

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Vacant without port,
              sea of illusory dust
             in gray heart canoe ......

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there is no safe port
tidal expressions anchor…
deep within one’s heart

© Harry J Horsman 2013...

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
the 'concrete' port of his day
Shapes&patterns so spatial
ideas poetized in the visual...

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leaving port in a storm
                             the not so swift
                             family robinson...

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Duck pastrami and sausage
Teriyaki glaze
And duck confit cassoulet
Aylesbury duck
in maderia port
A rural
Feed!...

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old port
the smell of dad's pipe
steers a summer breeze



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on June 25, 2018...

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Tie one on
Yesterday I went to port
Today I'm going to court
I'm just a sad sailor
And I'm in jail
That's all I know...

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The ships gone adrift
On the blue portrait of us
Were just two strangers
No destination in mind
Every port just looks the same
...

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Walter Richard Sickert
on the edge of Impressionism did skirt
He loved the intimacy of the music hall
always his first port of call...

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A spiced vegtable stew
A soused mackerel
Mint lamb shanks with barley
A nice slowed cooked rice
Provolone cheese
Chardonnay
Port!...

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fishing port breathes
when there are fish

fish breathes
when water is

solitary

in the poetry
the world breathes
with Grass....

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Aylesbury duck in port
Currant jelly sauce
Bucks bread with beef dripping spread
Then cherry bumpers;
Dandelion and
Burdock brew
Whew!...

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as you walk away
what you had to say
as I mope 
at the air port
can't forget
as still wet
almost when insane
its was
TEARS ON A PLANE...

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Three
	….. huddle in a wet doorway
					……brown bag sipping
								   ….any port in a storm.


								John G. Lawless
								©3/3/2018...

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They are steered like rudders on ships
Their port lies between my two lips
My day is a drag
Lest my mouth snags a bag
Of Doritos Nacho Cheese Chips...

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Full moon 
Glancing over
Blooming lateen sail

While galleon
Languishes
Drifting offshore
From port


Written July 5, 2021...

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