Tanker Poems - Poems about Tanker

Money Can Buy Happiness

...They say money can't buy happiness
but it sure can patch that hole in the roof or rowboat.
It can buy you a fat neck ring or your dream dress
it can buy you a tanker of gas -a new set of whitewall...

Read to the ocean when alone

...
Read to the ocean 
               when alone -
                     flat-bottomed tanker 
                            on the horizon
                                  cargo unknown,
      a gu...

Water Source

...
There's a water shortage in countries,
especially where there's strife,
and air conditioning is needed,
to lead a pleasant life.
We also have bone-dry Bermuda
where, except for 5" mont...

Russian wine

...Russian wine

It must have been a winter when the old tanker
sailed through the Dardanelles into the Black Sea
that was full of ice flakes 
the tanker was loading black gold at a town I have for...

Cancel

...you have been waving your big whip over the vulnerable and the sick, you have been using your unauthorized power to walk over the affluent and the weak claiming that you are the man of the hour.

 ...

Building Tension

...That night, in a strange place
I was like a fly
Circling a street light
Reeling…Reeling!
I felt so alone
Fear wrenched my throat
Couldn’t predict
When I would be charred to death

I ...

Oil Spill

...Note this poem was written some time ago but I was sick and deleted my site.  I have been patiently reposting my poems since 9 October 2000.

On November 13, 2002. The Prestige, one of twelve ta...

not a slave

...Not quite a slave 

After war number 2 when the time was hard and
oil was undiscovered, hidden under deep waters 
when our town stank of stale fish oil and people
made their booze called “sats” ...

Imagery

...I climb to the top of the Eiffel tower to catch the remnant of hope gliding through the skies in a bolt of lightning as it circles the three hundred- and thirty-meters pinnacle standing bravely on th...

Jottings

...JOTTINGS

Folded paper and scribbled notes
Mutterings of my cluttered mind
Things to do I hope to remember
The memory club, I’m a member
If not, then that’s why I will find
Ideas are sheep, wo...

The Elephant In the Room

...The elephant in the room went out for a drive,
creating a scene in the scenic coastal town.
Large as a barge, roaming the hills and the valleys.
It was a bumpy road, mammoth and metastatic...

68 Years Ago

...68 years ago

68 years ago, I was onboard the world's oldest tank ship
wooden decks and looking like a sailing ship more than 
a tanker in the Black Sea on the way to Odesa. 
The sea had ice fla...

Happy To Live In Sri Lanka

...Previously happy to live in Sri Lanka,
Doing well as mover of tanker,
Even as Sri Lankan roads got busier
And traffic of the rush hours not easier…

Then, he was fatter and franker
But living f...

Divine Intervention

...I recall a scary time 
when I brushed shoulders with death.
A blustery winter wind
seeded snow with freezing rain.

I got stuck on the highway
in whiteout conditions.
And the road was one big ...

The Edmond Fitzgerald

...The Edmond Fitzgerald was a tanker bold, twenty five thousand tons
of cargo, she held in her hole.
A crew of twenty seven sailors, a captain and a mate sailed the stormy waters
of a Michigan Great...

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