Old Woodbeard
...argh
the wooden pirate
with a real leg
‘pon his left shoulder
not a parrot but a peg
argh
his ship inverted
sailed ‘neath the wave
and in his treasure chest
was a craggy cave
argh
he ...
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Categories:
submariner, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Loaves and Fishes
...Rita was visiting. She pointed off the road. Let’s go there. So we did. It was the CIA - Culinary Institute of America. Like Auntie Mame, my aunt was a world traveler, an adventurer. My parents were ...
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Categories:
submariner, god, life,
Form: Haibun
Entombed Enwombed
...(Dedicated To Submariners All Over The World)
Dived deep in the bowels of the seas
My steely shell’s a womb.
Deep down amidst the oil and grease
I am at peace in the Lovecraftian tomb!
Wha...
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Categories:
submariner, allegory, courage, gothic, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Hunter Becomes the Hunted
...Hunter Becomes the Hunted
World War 2 is still relevant in 2014. Widow of a Kriegsmarine Captain's U-boat still misses her husband. How she wishes he'd had a shore posting and not gone to sea. When ...
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Categories:
submariner, conflict, death, history, military,
Form: Verse
The Quest
...The Quest
When a child my father was absent from my life
I dreamt about him and gave him heroic status.
He was an explorer, submariner, western hero
and a general in the foreign legion; I never ...
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Categories:
submariner, blessing, father, fish, ,
Form: Sonnet
Submariner Memories
...I have spent most my life on ships of steel
Things of fiction now so real
I pray for my brothers who have passed
From every nation that laid their wrath
Under the water these ships can go
Wher...
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Categories:
submariner, devotion, life, men,
Form: Free verse
Bourbon Steelhead
...tempered steelheads migrating through the
shallows, their metallic scales lubricated
with penzoil two stroke motor oil.
moving over sand and rocks
some gray, some brown,
some smooth, so...
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Categories:
submariner,
Form: I do not know?