Short Wharf Poems

Salty,
Windy,
Dense,
And thick.
Even the black-and-white checkered 
Sink
Smells like fish....

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Remember watching the tide
The sandpipers around
The barnacled pillars of the wharf
Everything wet, you silky and soft...

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Edge of wharf diner courting saline tastebuds,
Halyard rope bell hop with a catch,
Grandee gourmet glutton wolfs marinated cod...

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My love loves to knit and crochet
And she does it all her own way
She knitted a scarf
As long as a wharf
Guess what I got on Christmas Day?...

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fringing striped wingspans     collapse majestically    on the rocking wharf



                                                    April 2, 2016
                                              Sonsor : Timothy Hicks...

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This place smells nasty to me
Any place I’d rather be
Fisherman Wharf, yes, I know.
Fresh everything caught below.

Pungency of fish galore
Smell I truly do abhor
Shrimp tastes too fishy for me.
To Midwest I’d rather be....

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. for public domain

What dreams we have in our sleep,
what consequence in our life,
unless they linger with us
through the day from our dark beds?

Let Memory call them forth
to be examined in light
of day near the River's wharf
where Time slows its endless might,

and the High declares, "Build here
your Temples, ancient and new.
Sconce their walls to light the pier,
and leave an account of you."...

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The Caravel Moon with its dark grey sails on the high seas of a stormy dark blue sky

on the flickering eve of Candlemas. I watch from a light house those sweet enemies 

querulously contest on the wharf of the Stade de France on a clear Parisian evening.  

The man's game was won by Les Blues, yet only England of the northern hemisphere 

sides have won the Rugby Union World Cup with The Kick of History in ancient 2003 AD....

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Vast sea, sunset at shore,
Amazing soulful ride,
Evening's wedding bride,
Stand once on pier!

Mystic awe keeps afloat,
Enticing soothing breeze,
Constantly blowing freeze,
Tides drift, giggle !

Enthrals the wooden wharf,
All longing put to rest,
Swollen sea reaches crest,
Sailors' harbour !




Written on 9/7/14
3 stanzas 6/6/6/4 n 2nd n 3rd lines rhyme
By Dr. Upma A. Sharma
Contest- On the pier
Sponsor- Nette onclaud

Ranked 6th...

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fisherman's wharf bound
undressed thoughts
on the verge of egress
immersed in the aftertaste of your salty  
air
 
shimmers glisten off the mound
and I feel
pretzel'd

your chest cavity
ripped opened  
listening
to my sound
 
echoes beat where midnight lasts
beyond the howl of one beast
 
I scalp the frost from your windowpane
and tongue out the truth
leaving lasting memories
of the only pleasure
that was meant for me...

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Sail the sea by ship, 
And start to venture; 
Hoping for fortune
And greener pasture.

Sail the sea by ship, 
Wave farewell to quay; 
Loved ones at the wharf
Will be miles away.

Sail the sea by ship, 
Have hope, faith, and love; 
During vile weather, 
Pray to God above.

Sail the sea by ship, 
Cross the deep ocean; 
Let fear and doubt drown, 
Be strong in God’s hand.

As you’re in silent
Water or rough rip; 
Keep your life afloat, 
Sail the sea by ship....

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