Short Sea Captain Poems

An aging old sea captain named Hook,
Was a bloodthirsty pirate and a crook.
He leaned as he stood,
On his left leg of wood,
And from only his right eye he did look....

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Ship
Sonar
Sea captain
Sailors aboard
Search

Squall
Strike sails 
Starboard side
Swinging the lead
Swell

3/10/19

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Shaving your
Scales mermaid, 
And against
your will. 

Beautiful sea 
Creature, a siren
Entrancing the
Loneliest of 
Seamen. 

I bless the 
Sea Captain, 
The Admiral
Inside you. 

To your rescue....

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A private moment
As a boy, I liked to fish
in a creek that had a narrow stream
where I sat on a stone dreaming
as I didn’t care for trout.

I wanted to be a sea captain
sailing to Africa 
that, in my mind, an idyllic place
My ship never sailed to that continent 

In Portugal, I met a woman
from Kinshasa
one can say without being sentimental
Africa came to me....

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In a Mediterranean blue cabin of sleep rocked to the sea beat in his ears
what big seas of dreams run in the Captain's sleep
over what blue whaled waves does he sail in a rainbow hail of flying-fishes 
he can see the Atlantic from his bed where he now lies
night and day night and day eating his bread and slops
the quiet cripple dreaming staring at the sea and the skies
he will lie here till the sky goes out and the sea stops...

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