Short Shipshape Poems

Master at Arms
policing the fleet
are you being shipshape?...

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Faith in practice, loving thy neighbor
Aches and pains, suffering, sorrows
Ignoble citizens wanted to curse
Righteousness, let the wickedness loose
Not so fast
Every Adam must come to a crossroads
Suspended sentence for believers
Shipshape smiles in court of heaven...

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Lost at sea, rudderless
Steaming coffee awaiting lips
gone into eternal mystery
Ghosts of love long vanished
Shipshape sinking soul
A'fouled by waves
of indignant pain
Love lost at sea
Empty vessel sails on
Adrift
Ever adrift
Indifferent to its fate
Destination of no concern
Where has the crew
vanished to?...

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and you tap tap on my leaves
high tide descends shipshape as
wholesome as can be brought forth
from the gale force fete relief

oh the hamstring you do hug
taut grasp relieves danger from
belt strap as it leaves beach plank
so the treetop perch easing

soothing dry tides of the wind
cool-charm in a household sigh
bluebirds in their enchant chirp
with their hip-hip-hurraying
...

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in her sleep…she’s gone
beloved aunt, mother, grandma, sister
adored, she’s so much more
she shut her eyes, likely after prayer
found herself at the pearly gates

we’re all numb
thought she’d be on earth
for quite a while
she appeared shipshape 

but the angels 
of our Lord and Savior
brought her home

Rest in peace, dear Auntie
Tears of mourning…we lost you
Tears of joy…Jesus has you

3/8/2022...

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Detectives found everything shipshape and in its place
Except an ice cube tray full of water sitting on old lace
This housewife was neat, she would have never left it out
We arrested the culprit, none of us had a doubt.

I’m innocent the salesman yelled at us police.
But she would have put it in the freezer, Miss Charice.
Jury easily convicted him for her murder yesterday.
If she was alive when he left, that tray would have been put away....

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Amur Tigers are listed as, endangered
They are found in Primorski and Khabarorisk, far east Russia
and they pound the forests, of the Amur-Heilong landscape 
and are the largest of all tigers, but their territory is not in shipshape

Amur Tigers forests, are been destroyed by human greed
and all Tigers have lost an estimated 95%, of their historical range 
Human overpopulation, has made many wildlife populations bleed
so we need to stop breeding and greeding, and produce a total change...

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