Swabbing Poems | Examples


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Call'in all Ready Musicicers

"Tulips under Sastin"
is a Project and research module
for a song.
It's mention is a work in progress
it's self. Just the mention of this phrase
means interest
and a willingness to be a part of the
inspiration of this
southing sound.

Urging: needing to exsist it
tugs the helm lines
and twistthem in a bunch.
needing attention
longing to be
it's mere mention causes
those who wish togetherness to
come together and create it
for the sake of the future.
polishing,oiling,swabbing adjusting
so that other's might marvel
at the way's of differencing
can bring others together
in a collective with interest same in need and want
a desire to be creative
and at the same time\create something now
that will sound like something then.
Clean all those instruments
collaberate
and settle on tempo, writte the notes
rmember the tone
adjust the need for
clear and tranparnet readiness
folk who love music and don't
mind working come together and create this thang.
!

Premium Member Enjoy The Good Days


True happiness resides within each of us
We alone are responsible for our own well being
It is so easy to blame external forces, people, or events
But the bottom line is, we're the ones steering the ship
We're the Captain, the First Mate
Right down to the deckhand swabbing the deck
So here's my advise to all you nice people
Always, always think positive
The dark days are only temporary
Believe me, life is always about ups and downs
Endure the bad days... enjoy the good days

Swabbing My Nose

Swab
inside 
my nose
presses, swirls. Twinges,
twitches, runs like it’s bleeding.
I wait in lobby, till rest home screener
smiles. “Negative! Good to go!”
Grandmother, I only
do this
for 
you!


I Had a Sweater

I had a sweater
By Richard Rix

I had a sweater
Made from all the colors I know
From family red to traveling green 
And a future yellow that would glow

I had a sweater
Made from memories and dreams 
Of friends and far off places
Strange symbols covered the seams 

I had a sweater
Knitted, stitched, and sown
With images and pictures 
Of a world I once had known

I had a sweater 
That one day got a hole 
It became bigger and bigger
Until it consumed my soul 

I had a sweater 
That nobody could fix
No doctors or nurses
No masks or swabbing sticks

Now it is gone
My sweater has fallen apart
I am trying to put it together
But I don’t know where to start

Premium Member Experiencing Technical Difficulties

I've never twitted on Tweeter
nor am I an Instagrammarian
I've searched on Goggle
but cannot find MyFace on the interweb
I ask "how do I find the North Star?"
and get 4,460,000,000 hits, mostly ads
for an ice cream bar called "The Big Dipper"
so I go make some toast and eat lunch
at least I can work a toaster
                              
Kids think I was born in the Jurassic era
believing my first job was swabbing the deck
on a Byzantine sailing ship
for I speak of phones connected to the wall
and TV sets with 4 channels and cars that got 8 mpg
I don't know url's from www's, or http's from html's
my mobile phone always auttocronects my speeling
and cyber censors block my search for 'penal colonies'

I cannot find the mute button on Zoom
so my belch might make it into the meeting minutes
my internet takes regular coffee breaks 
and the only tweeting is the birds outside my window
so I sit at my screen watching dots chase themselves in a circle
trying not to get toast crumbs
on my high tech keyboard


Written 16 Mar 2022

Premium Member Pirate In Arm Chair Only

Pirate
Bold fierce
Swabbing, looting, fighting
Ship, flag, chair, remote
Sitting, yawning, sleeping
Lethargic, immobile
Gamer


Woke Up This Morning a Pirate

Shiver me timbers
What's going on
I was dressed as a pirate 
When I woke up this morn

I looked in the mirror
And let out an Arrrr....
I came equipped an eye patch
And a swash buckling Scar

I felt the strong urge
For grog, meat, and cheese
Went into the kitchen
Told the winch who lives with me

It's my new pirate attitude
That I have to thank
For the look that I got
And why I'm now walking the plank

When I arrived at the office
It wasn't the ship I'd hoped for
And security at the front desk
Barred me from bringing my saber to work

With all these modern day regulations
How's a pirate to get a break
When the only body of water nearby 
Is a drainage ditch and man made lake

And the only pirate booty
That I'd hoped to see 
Is right now swabbing the kitchen deck
While talking mutiny

Still the days barnacle adventures
Had a lot going on
As my head hits the pillow
I wonder what I'll wake up as tomorrow morn

Dikless Concert Date

Practioner of cons, grifts, & rips.  
  Swabbing a deck on a sinking ships
Inexorable in persistence
 lacking all patience  
Or any social boundary

LIE TO ‘GET’ then ‘GONE’ 
                In love at first reflection

Vainglory incarnate/Vulgarly Gauche.
Options eluded but lacking choice.
Chances and trust
 with you naturally obliterates.
Narsistic homophobe, 
who only can hear
 the sound of his own voice.

That superfluous verbal vomit that spills out those lips
(cork that flapping gash on your face)

Your sickness is inaffable, 
not cute or funny, but sill laughable.
Come at me as pathos, 
poor victims of circumstance.
Every insecurity revealed himself 
in each pathetic comment
Collaterally Kidnapped , 
Mentally molested.
Finally finished we lock eyes again,
 I grin, and laugh
‘This ones for you Glenn’

Premium Member Enjoy the Good Days

True happiness resides within each of us

We alone are responsible for our own well being

It is so easy to blame external forces, people, or events

But the bottom line is, we're the ones steering the ship

We're the Captain, the First Mate

Right down to the deckhand swabbing the deck

So here's my advise to all you nice people

Always, always think positive

The dark days are only temporary

Believe me, life is always about ups and downs

Endure the bad days... enjoy the good days


© Jack Ellison 2014

Driving In the Rain

My car is really a boat.
I've tightened down the main mast,
And I'm swabbing the deck,
Staring at the plank,
Contemplating who to push.

In dreams, boats symbolize the body
As water does for life.
If my body carries a soul
And my boat skims across the water,
Shoving puddles aside and soaking
Nearby walkers,
I MUST LAUGH
Or I will falter and sink
Into the muck
Like those who have not earned their right
To drive.

Please
Do not bury me among the pompous
Ocean of faces,
Just because I laugh
At everything.

I remember walking among the sprayed
Sidewalks of Mastic Beach,
Laughing at myself
As no one was there
To laugh at me,

And since I know
How to laugh at myself,
I think I have earned the right
To laugh at you!

And if God can have a dark sense
Of humor,
Then so can I.

: )

Excused

A quiet man,
a good man.
An exquisite  artist
in 
watercolor.
Self taught.

As a sailor,
he was excused
from chipping paint, 
swabbing decks,
or peeling spuds
by lighting up
when the Chief Boatswain
barked to his crew
“smoke 'em if you got 'em.”

Excused, 
he put down his mop  
his paint brush, or his knife,
and smoked.

Today, thirty years
later, he is dying.

He is breathing through a tube
in his throat
and laying in his bed
at home
waiting,
watching his last
football games
and waiting.

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