Short Tankers Poems

I'm sitting along the Bosphorus
watching the russian tankers pass by.
They are big,
so am l....

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Skyline of rowed houses
Rolls past and
So do the greys of labour, 
Conservative and otherwise
Are boarded on the decks of
Oil tankers; hollow
Hulking HMS something
Sleeps in the docks
Of the town once red
Now muddy brown
And sick, 
Labour wise and 
Reading Caledonia.

Aberdeen 2012 on route to Shetland...

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The stars are brite

    The stripes are shinny

    The ground is rough

     Thier riffles are noisy

     The buildings are fallen down

      The tankers are in control

      The ships are on target

      The planes are flying low

      Looking forward of returning home

      with loving hearts.

  5/17/05...

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I was baptized with a sacred immunity; 
yours: the futile spearing
at my crocodile bone
at my rock-built shell!
it shall a sorry fate be:
as a melting terminal wind!
a toad journeys not at noon in vain, 
a tortoise was not made a sage in vain;
keep those flames of your laughters; 
keep your tears from me
& that load of rude flamboyance:
your tankers of majesty; 
keep them from my forge 
in keeping yourself safe! 
I am of the two worlds?...

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Eight ounces in a coffee cup
Sixteen ounces in a pound
Both of these are things that you
Can wrap your mind around

Super-tankers plying the seas
Hold millions of gallons of oil
And weeks and years is how we see
Our lives and the time that we toil

Sixty seconds in a minute
Twenty-four hours in a day
Everything we know and have
Is measured in this way

We can quantify everything we know,
But if I might be so bold
Is there anyone that can tell me
How much love a heart can hold?...

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