Short Ports Poems

If Ports-
To import and export,
Sports-
Weakness to export, 
Smartness to import!...

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S-ports
E-vent
A-t

G-reat
A-rena
M-akes
E-xceptional
S-uccess

Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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A black cloud circles.
Man's doom is seen in the sky.
The storms at the ports,
Where trade and commerce soon die,
Ships and flags still floating by....

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Y-ou
R-eally
A-re

K-een
R-eporter
I-n
S-ports
T-elevision
I-mplementing
N-ationwide
E-ffective

D-elivery
A-s
L-isteners
A-re
O-verwhelmed

Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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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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Safe place for the meaning — in couplets of rhyme
 the words taking shelter in moments sublime

Their message unfurling — new harbor in sight 
 the tempest becalming in lines of delight


(Dreamsleep: April, 2025) 
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K-eep
Y-our
L-ife
E-nthusiastic

G-ladly
A-pplying
T-he
E-lectronic
S-ports

A-s
R-emarkable
T-riumphs
A-nd
G-ains
A-re
M-ade
E-xceptionally

Topic: Birthday of Kyle Gates Artagame (January 02) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Life Is


Life is so very short
ship sails many ports
People see it all
leap but don't fall

Stand outside the rail
send doubts to hell
Don't always agree
search another sea

Life is awaiting more

Robert J. Lindley . 07-07-2014...

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There are ports you can't reach ,Captain,
you can not fill the gaps
do not count outbound
stars are gleams to far away

What was the last commandent,Captain,
what did you leave the harbour
with a few passengers
is the bleeding your heart...

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the night bright
i can see the ports lights
its shinng on you see
i  set
with my eyes fixs
and stareing
 am just shareing
my feeling
your love got me
reeling
am waiting to get home
without i will be alone
am not a deport
 am just at the
AIRPORT...

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All the Nice Girls

I'd like to sail the Seven Seas
With seven sailors hearty,
Seven ports in seven days,
And seven nights to party.

My every wish would be fulfilled
For me by crewmates, seven,
And when friends ask me where I've been,
I'll say "in seventh heaven!"...

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I had a lekker time in Egypt
even though I didn’t visit a crypt

I drank, smoked, had fun with friends
later back on board someone stole my tens

still had fun on the last night there
and the cab ride was quite a scare

that was one of the ports I have seen
as a young sailor at age nineteen...

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Humpty dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on the firewall
Seeking open ports through which to crawl
Finding one he went on a brawl
Lo another insecure server fall

All the kings techies and every nerd
Plugged the gaps flustered and red
Like a rabbit Humpty Dumpty had bred
And on all the computers he had spread...

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Letting Go

Today, my heart, you sail away. 
May your seas be calm and constant.
Plot your life’s course wisely.
Let your ports be safe havens.
And then, when your heart is in need,
Hold your course homeward.
In known harbors will you find comfort.
Loving faces will meet you.

I’ll  stand awaiting the tide....

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Dance of the bony 

Soon we will look
30 when we die,
Which will please the undertaker.
Death will be called a voyage
On an everlasting cruise ship.
The purser will send 
Festive cards
From romantic ports.
No, grandad is not dead, he rests
He wears makeup because he is going
On a liner as a dancing partner
For old ladies....

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He met a woman full of desire

She'd  set his heart on fire

A lonely sailor man

Used to stopping at ports whenever he can

She was his own special treasure

Time with her he could not measure

He asked her to sail the seven seas

Even if he had to get on his knees

Would she come or would she stay

Would she even try to delay...

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Voyager
By David J Walker

You are the ones we left
And knew would never grace 
The ports on different paths
And ever will the course 
Of our ascent  serrate a jagged
Past across a folded sky

The SETI trade winds scan each
Horizon 
	One by
One by
		One
With the digital sexton 
Texting the someone’s we 
Might never know again
Who may complete us...

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Dance Macabre 
 
Soon we all will all look 
30 when we die,
which will please undertakers? 
Death will be called a voyage, 
on an everlasting cruise ship
and the purser will send 
festive cards 
from romantic ports. 
No, grand dad is not dead he is resting
and he is wearing makeup because he is going on 
a passenger ship to be dancing partner
for old ladies....

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All at sea again,now the hurraine
 has brought down your ocean rain
  to bathe me again

      All hands on deck at dawn
          sailing to sadder shores
            your ports and my heavy storms
                or maybe the blackest thoughts                                                                   











        

Inspired by I.Mculloch...

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On Reading

Voyages ‘pon seas
Of ink and tide
On journeys
O’er oceans wide

In time transported
By imagination ferried
To exotic ports and 
To treasures buried

Made of paper and page
A fragile craft
No more than a hand span 
From fore to aft

But a transport no less…
Through both space and time
Crewed only by a lone
…And inquisitive mind…


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Did you find that port
where the sea greets the land
with pearls and sparkling fishes?

Was the voyage you took to get here
full of storms or near misses?

In the autumn woods were there truffles
or sprained ankles?

Does your soul roam
though you stay at home?

When your ship arrived
did you sigh as if at journeys end,

or did you weigh anchor
for a new port, a new friend?...

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Revolve land O Revolve 
Here I am.. 
In revolving, claps my wings strongly 
I am who fearful, mortal.. 
That wear the sea slippers and the
Ah, fate and death, 
I am the spirit that abandoned ports and
Absent where absent. 
... 
Revolve Land O Revolve 
Here where the love and dream follow us. 
What's precious love when the death is habitat! 
What's precious dream when certainty hurts!...

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When I was only seventeen,
I met my darling Norma Jeane.
And I, still wet behind the ears,
Emboldened by too many beers,
Approached her and forgot my fears,
Became the envy of my peers -
But knew our love would end in tears.
And after many lonesome years,
I saw her on the silver screen -
And dreamed of how it could have been…

Using Duo-Rhyme, a form by Mary Ports, for Andrea’s Duo-Rhyme contest...

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Grandeur of the sea, master craftsmen worked endlessly to make your elaborate mast. Finery 
foraged apon this ship for the ports to envy. The waters part for your beauty, sea creatures 
praise in adoration of your greatness. The winds dare not blow viciously against you, at the 
sight of your wonder. Easy passages all your travels granted. Smoothly ride into the horizon 
and stars guide thee....

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Wind can be a bit pushy
at times
Though I would be first
to admit
of needing nudges in different
directions

inclined to linger too long
under shady canopy

or at the seashore
gazing off into dreamy
horizon

my mind inclined toward
repainting sunsets
rearranging stars into
unique constellations

or writing poetry
strictly for sojourners

each poem a gateway
to ports further unknown...

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