Short Sea Captain Poems
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Eric Patrick Clapton
failed at being a sea captain
great guitarist who started many bands
and earned the sobriquet Slow Hand
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.
Ship
Sonar
Sea captain
Sailors aboard
Search
Squall
Strike sails
Starboard side
Swinging the lead
Swell
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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.
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.
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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The meteorologist gestures grandly at his map~
meanwhile, my knees whisper
clandestine truths
in Morse code crackles.
The barometer lies, but my hips remember
every coming storm
with impeccable timing,
like a retired sea captain
who still smells salt in the wind.
Seventy years, and the best forecast comes
from vertebrae chiming like wind chimes
in November.