voyagers
Voyagers
The old ship
rust stripped like a Sudanese mule
doomed to carry fleeing people across
a landscape of despair
Why, she floats is a lasting mystery
From one obscure port to another
she finds her way
The captain and the chief are never sober
plays ten-cent poker
The captain signs the manifesto but takes
no interest, what's in the ship's hold
other than massive rats
when did the pair
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Categories:
voyagers, allusion, anger,
Form: Blank verse
voyagers
Voyagers
The old ship
rust stripped like a Sudanese mule
doomed to carry fleeing people across
a landscape of despair
Why, she floats is a lasting mystery
From one obscure port to another
she finds her way
The captain and the chief are never sober
plays ten-cent poker
The captain signs the manifesto but takes
no interest, what's in the ship's hold
other than massive rats
when did the pair
...
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Categories:
voyagers, addiction, anger, books,
Form: Blank verse
Voyagers Park
Across the bridge, unto the clear path
silence waits as time takes a slow count
with her void beckoning loudly and
whispering to the lurking shadows
When will it all end?
As all spun lightly for a short stop
Toils and Sweats are lost before Dawn
gracefully dancing to the blowing breeze
over meadow at Dusk
Is Eternity a break Even?
or a new
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Categories:
voyagers, death,
Form: Free verse
Death of Many Voyagers
In this your steep water of love
There is a graveyard of ships
Wherein Many men before me,
Who heedlessly have seafared
On this perilous journey of love
What joy have they ever gotten
But destitution, chaos and hurt
They have only left their homes
With foolish hopes of making
Their way Into a maiden's heart,
But in the end they
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Categories:
voyagers, betrayal, boat, death, desire,
Form: Free verse
Voyagers
Embark with me, with us
upon our voyage
We set our course
by chart and dream
Cast overboard
all weight, for storms
pursue
make room
for sinking souls
Come toil and row
tied one to one
when gales blow
and far from home
Come count the stars
and scan the shimmering horizon
Come share the brazier’s glow
plain rations for a feast
laugh with companions
Adventure stirs our bones
Pain and fear we choose
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Categories:
voyagers, voyage,
Form: Blank verse
Voyagers
I've traveled this road before.
Maybe it was in a dream, but I don't think so.
I remember too well the cold pavement
Beneath bare feet and walking
Toward the water color moon.
The road was deserted, except for thoughts
And emotions that seemed to swirl
All around then land in the snow by the wayside.
I remember, too, feeling alone and
Miniscule compared
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Categories:
voyagers, imagery, loneliness,
Form: Bio