A SONG THAT WILL ONLY MAKE SENSE TO EAST COASTERS! CANADA
...A SONG THAT WILL ONLY MAKE SENSE
TO EAST COASTERS! (CANADA)
A heritage that we all share, our blood is maritime.
We thrill to see the Bluenose, her picture on a dime.
Emot...
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Categories:
tidal bore, funny, humorous, ocean, song,
Form: Rhyme
A Ballade of The Cliff
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Tho' bore your fate 'tis artless place you lone
Your girth--your hold freedoms--your claims be more
Restrained your gambled trade choice place bemoan
Shewn thee frankly tho' toughened be your co...
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Categories:
tidal bore, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Ballade
Charles Babbage
...Charles Babbage
The full package
His invention tidal bore
Led to computers galore!
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2nd place: ABCD Clerihew - 4 Lines contest; Sponsored by Josep...
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Categories:
tidal bore, computer, internet, science, technology,
Form: Clerihew
Danger Island Dumb-Dumbs
...We knaves had orders both explicit and dumb:
Scare the blazes out of a management bum.
Thunderstorm weather rocked wide Prince William Sound,
Feisty gales pouring rain all around.
My partner an...
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Categories:
tidal bore, animal, boat, drink, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Little Island
...sigh …
a lifetime ago
I breathed here, vital -
dangled my topsiders over these
pier stones and pilings
tempting the dark leviathans
that swam beneath the bloated
August moon, reflected …
ki...
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Categories:
tidal bore, memory, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Moon, You
...you ...
are my moon
(whisper me, coolly)
wan and pale as porcelain
milky moll - `china doll ...
dancing the sky like a Ginza geisha
stars tickling your toes
prettily petulant, and perfectly .....
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Categories:
tidal bore, analogy, love, metaphor, passion,
Form: Free verse
Answer In the Sand
...I found her jacket folded 'midst the drift,
Atop her shoes but 'neath a ribbon, red,
Tied to a strainer that she'd used to sift
The sand, for treasures left by ti...
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Categories:
tidal bore, bereavement, ocean, proposal, sea,
Form: Sonnet
Upon the Sand
...An old man wrote upon the sand,
Sea foam sweeping to the shore,
It's lowest ebb, the tidal bore ...
Coins of sunlight, gold and grand.
His pen, a cane that was...
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Categories:
tidal bore, age, beach, loss, ocean,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Sirens
...Several sirens singing on the shore
Called Calypso’s crew for them to adore.
Willing witless wanderers;
Oblivious obeyers,
Which waves washed through a rocky tidal bore.
Svelte sisters sieved...
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Categories:
tidal bore, betrayal, dark, evil, men,
Form: Limerick
The Ghost of John
...He hung there, a sobering sight,
like the full moon on a misty night.
John Riox, smothered in slime,
ghastly ghost adrift in time.
He wrestles ropes of rubbery kelp,
his sunken eyes plead...
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Categories:
tidal bore, death, sea, storm, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Midnight Typhoon
...Spring tide
pounding against
a rocky relationship
between the
new moon and
earth’s pie in the sky.
On an island
of one’s own making
in the mind —
like a whirlpool
when imagination
sl...
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Categories:
tidal bore, anxiety, depression, dream, imagination,
Form: Free verse
That's Everybody's Dream
...Turn into a transparent cloud
and find your way to Heaven;
take a voyage into the unknown
with an excitement never allowed.
Glance at the vast cosmos without perplexity,
they are the gif...
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Categories:
tidal bore, adventure, anxiety, dream, god,
Form: Free verse
Driftwood Fire
...Driftwood Fire
Today, I walked the rocky shore
Enjoying the winds wild choir
And gathered there as I have before
The fuel for a driftwood fire.
Where came these twists of tortured wood?
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Categories:
tidal bore, nature
Form: I do not know?
Tidal Bore Teddy Bear
...Washed away on current strong,
Into the sea, he's gone...
No more button eye smiles,
No more tattered shirt,
Oh my poor old Teddy-Bear,
I truely feel your hurt....
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Categories:
tidal bore, childhood, devotion, fantasy, loss,
Form: Rhyme
"puddles"
...It all started with a single tear.
You might have been far from it,
You might have been near,
But tears turn to puddles fast,
Congregrating, to streams, at last,
From a multitude of streams, a r...
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Categories:
tidal bore, angst, brother, computer-internet, sorry,
Form: I do not know?
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