Sailing on the Bay, a Living Poem
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On the bay the wind is scurrying
along its flock of waves,
with white crests honey combed,
to flip over their edges,
on blue foreheads.
The bow of the yacht slices
through the waves drive...
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Categories:
sloops, ocean,
Form: Free verse
One of My Rues
...If only I could bring back the days
when I was twenty-one,
and could choose
who I wanted to be with
until eternity,
I would definitely pick a poet.
A poet:
who could make brown leaves
int...
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Categories:
sloops, pain,
Form: Free verse
For Spring Is Here
...Let me 'neath fleecy clouds be. For spring is here.
God's creation all for me. For spring is here.
So many glorious gardens to admire,
Clematis attracts a bee. For spring is here.
Aubrietia p...
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Categories:
sloops, bird, flower, spring,
Form: Ghazal
The Hatch Shell
...I rowed from Cambridge where
my scull was slapped by the wake
of the long boats from MIT and Harvard
then dodged the hodgepodge of
tiny sloops in the lower basin
competing and sharing the ve...
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Categories:
sloops, celebration,
Form: Free verse
The San Antonio Night Crossing
...“... The closeness of the place and the heat of the climate,
added to the number in the ship which was so crowded
that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost
s...
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Categories:
sloops, change, death, immigration, people,
Form: Free verse
There Are No Clouds
...Cast off the mooring ropes at bow and stern
Head out into the early morning mist
Hoist the big mainsail, free the jib, and turn
Feeling the filling canvas make her list
The venerable di...
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Categories:
sloops, boat, feelings, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
6978
...6978 is not but a date, I once visited a place, and it was not the Pearly Gates!
There were no blue seas, or boats about! There were no palm trees, or heavenly dreams! There was an old swinging ...
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Categories:
sloops, adventure,
Form: ABC
Captured
...We shall plunder your ship
an old ship of our line.
Dare you fight
This, Ninty-pounder might.
On your trail were
our sloops alright.
Ahoy says my lieutenant.
We have you in sights.
Fifty...
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Categories:
sloops, adventure
Form: Free verse
Untitled #149 /
...“Freeze your nuts off”
What a gray, gray day at Lake Norman
the worst weekend for a first regatta
our sloops were plastic toy boats in a toddler’s bathwater
and we the hapless Lego men
the Novem...
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Categories:
sloops, confusion, introspection, life, mystery,
Form: Free verse