he broke me
...(A throw-back piece, a breakup poem from high school)
What a lonely, peculiar, eccentric figure I must be. A girl, in a garden, crying at an iPad, in the dark.
Earlier, at school...
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Categories:
steersman, boyfriend, break up, lost
Form: Free verse
The Storm Gull
...The steersman dry-heaves
into rolling scuppers,
the skipper dozes fitfully in his sodden berth
spew dribbling from a tossed piss pot.
The deck is also heaving; fo...
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Categories:
steersman, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Her Lips Dehisce
...On display, million dollar vessel in canal's sunk tide
Tucked away, among mangrove mud clotted denial
Puce pearl oily oyster tender is tenebrous, enduring
Glorified twilit stygian tomb stratum, fr...
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Categories:
steersman, allusion, boat, introspection, lust,
Form: Free verse
Broken
...What a lonely, peculiar, eccentric figure i must be. A girl, in a garden, crying at an iPad, in the dark.
Earlier, at school...
It was a clear spelling out, like steel cuts thru fruit.
As...
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Categories:
steersman, 11th grade, break up,
Form: Free verse
The Indian Ocean -Sonnetina Due
...The Indian Ocean is mean and deep
And careless sailing often death doth reap
It’s wild and vast a lonesome place to be
Needing to ply these waters has no glee
Angry relentless waves tall meters h...
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Categories:
steersman, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
China Clipper
...Listen and you can hear the wind whisper
the name of a lost ship and its skipper.
The wind’s name is Favonius, winged god
His sotto voce is but a whimper.
Gentle breeze doth tell of China Clip...
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Categories:
steersman, sorrow,
Form: Rubaiyat
Hope To Back
...Start your anchor boat steersman
Sun declines in the west
The new wife awaiting
on the near bank
Hope to return to own land
That free air
unbound movements
The rice cake and
Cares of blood.
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Categories:
steersman, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Boat Trip
...BOAT TRIP
It was a short enough trip - an hour’s
Travel with few diversions near
Which filled us with joy, or brought a tear:
Just different spots between showers.
Fellow passengers showed ...
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Categories:
steersman, allegory,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Words For Pictures Found In An Old Children's Book
...Joy in work means joy in life,
And where none shirk there is no strife.
Bear down there, young man;
The wheel's in your hand.
Steady, set to it;
You know you can!
The glorious softness of m...
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Categories:
steersman, inspirational
Form: I do not know?