Short Schooner Poems

four masted schooner
eerily drifts on the waves
smugglers sip on rum...

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To end
a stress filled day,
he recuperated-
unwinding aboard a merlot
schooner...

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a schooner at sea

regarded through the glasses

         here, it is silent





5/3/2015...

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Seagulls circle sinking schooner.
   Shipwrecked sailors safely swim ashore.

    11 / 13 / 2016....

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Baron Ready was the steamiest
And by all accounts the weeniest
A schooner* or two
And everyone knew
He certainly was the pianist

*schooner=glass of beer...

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Schooner On a Schooner

It may have been later or possibly sooner,
We drank another schooner on a schooner;
While wind prevailed,
Down schooner sailed;
We became idiots who were an early bloomer. 

Jim Horn...

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You’re a peacock amongst sparrows
A swan amongst geese,
An aria amongst discourse,
A sleek schooner amongst a rag-tag fleet
You’re a mighty oak,
In a forest of trees.
You’re the most beautiful person,
That I ever did see....

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Just Tell Me What to Do

And, I, on a great schooner,
will sail away from you.
To another shore where 
freedom is.

To be loved for exactly who
I am.
For I am full of romp and play.

Adieux, will see you some
other day.



August 15, 2019...

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Her graceful arms
In sleeves of billowed white
Reach up to touch the stars
That twinkle in a velvet night
As she leans upon his breast
She takes his every breath
As they dip and sway
Across a moonlight sea
A silhouette of beauty
The schooner ‘Ballerina’
Dancing with the summer breeze...

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Crooner Bruner loved his schooner 'Billie'
                                  He took a short holiday in Chile
                                    He went to Torres del Paine
                                      Crooned across the terrain
                               And Came back home with a robust chilli...

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I would like to purchase a prairie schooner if you please.
The car salesman was brand spanking new.
He had to ask several other salesmen what a prairie schooner was.
None of them knew, so he “Googled” it.
Is this what you mean? He asked, showing her a photo of a prairie schooner.
Yes she said. “And I want it in pink.”...

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A blanket of morning snow engulfed the town
like a luminous south sea pearl
stretched out
mirroring its watery home,
as the villagers slept,
tight in the warmth of the mattress
that creaked like an ancient schooner,
and they awoke to see with faceless dreams
that winter within themselves,
kindled by December lights....

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My schooner eases
into the tiger claw
that an umber peninsula
juts seaward.
The carnelian bay 
beckons like honey
as I aim
for twilight's tangerine
and sun's waning citrine
in amber haze.
Papaya clouds whipped
by solar winds
breathe the siren lure
of bronze oceans
in the scriptural future
to my restless golden heart.

6/30/2018...

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The Master Sailor

Along the tourists jilted beach walked
saw a rope, thick as Popeye’s arms
sticking up from the sand.
I pulled and up came a schooner
with its crew on board.

We set sail away from winter shores
it disappeared in a funky haze.
A dream had come true, a master
of my own vessel.
It didn`t last someone 
pulled the plug....

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Nine turns o' lunar
sailin' ace wit' me schooner
suckin' me pointer
plucked orf me decks 's'twere
me lingo sucks, yo'd concur?

Ahoy, me mateys.  Me scrawlin' me be servin' anent th' mugshot o' th' wordy wench
Linda-Marie, th' sweetheart o' these 'ere waters.  Go shakin' yo' ample booty, worthy
lass, 'n heed me pennin' wit' favor.  Aye, aye, Cap'n.  Arrrrgh!!!...

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Blackened silhouettes fill the skies
Take heed to coming wind and rain.
Listen to the swirling gull cries
No chance of weighing anchor now
My ship’s the schooner Laurie Jane
With a Neptune sprite at the bow.
We’re for Sumatra come first chance
A fine load of tea ours to gain 
Waiting to sail is a dog’s dance
Now such heinous blackened skies rain.
6-15-18...

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Barack cool as a schooner in wind
Anchored his vision to the sky
Rinse the blue and uncloud his mind
Rose up sweetly, bloom to defy
Ancient customs screening light 
Callous suppositions on human rights
Kindle a candle on his bow

Omniscient one, keep this orison for him
Black as the night but better to show
Africa's star on the Atlantic brim
Mending fences, sweeping pretenses away
Allow him to bring his cargo into bay....

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crimson and cream is the scene you will see at an oklahoma sooners football game.
crimson and cream are the colors of the oklahoma football team.
crimson and cream are the inspiration of the sooner schooner.
crimson and cream are seen all over the ou campus all year long.
crimson and cream are the colors you will msee on an oklahoma sooner fan.
crimson and cream thats what its all about  for me, im an oklahoma sooner fan born and bred..............

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This time in June as days are fair and bright,
Brig Copenhagen takes her leave from coast
to sail on Java's way for copra white.
Bet's made with schooner Captain Jake that most
in Brigantine returns first,aye, our boast.
The sheets are filling wide with breeze this day,
to gentle Zephyr we lift high a toast.
Swells go past oak boards showing gleams of spray
Toward Java we run free without delay
Good time lest blame foul weather moves our way....

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Lo and Behold

A Subterranean grip

Alas a woman's mass appears in this Word Trip

She cries for Ahab to head ashore "Give the creature the slip"!

Avast a wide mast unfurls across the ship 

The Captain's cries for the harpoon are drowned out by the cracked whip 

The wondrous size of the White Whale appears from the drip 

The sheer weight of the beast causing the schooner to flip 

The showdown is on 

between Captain Ahab and Moby Dick...

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The bay lies in repose at dusk
          while a single-sail schooner
     plows through the placid green,
Bright tangerine streaks blend
     with magenta and gold,
               as the sun slips silently
          behind the curtain center stage.

HONORABLE MENTION
written November 17, 2021
on the beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
"Sunset In Your Window" Poetry Contest
All Poetry
April 3, 20222

EDITOR FRONT PAGE PICK
All Poetry
April 16, 2022...

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Through the gray mist of the city 
black petals push up toward the sky...
like a schooner sniffing for lost booty
behemoths breeching for the moonlight.

Some make it to the sweetened shore 
the air sprinkled with chipped gems
others cling to the driftwood of hope
just to be nudged, then bitten in half.

This lantern makes no promises of happiness 
the thinning pride crouches in desperate prayer
the fates may favor the lucky or the blessed
but damn the faithless to the sated lair....

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