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Shores of Normandy by Jim Radford
In the cold grey light of the sixth of June, in the year of forty-four,
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The Empire Larch sailed ou
@martin
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A Poignant Night On The USS KIDD
Tool of desperate confrontation
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Object of pride for a grateful nation
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In Baton Rouge on the migh
@zeeb
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A Harvest Song
THE noon was as a crystal bowl
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The red wine mantled through;
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Around it like a Viking's beard
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T
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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Constantinople
Valiant galley set sail
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adrift through the Dardanelles.
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Her masts, backs straight,
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composed as
@tomorr
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AutoBiography 1
I am the bastard son of Nero,
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the sad product of licentiousness.
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A fact about my life
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that I s
@PaganPaul
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Veteran
Hidden deep in the galley at sea far from the front
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Washing pans and floors and sometimes onions /
@ylzm
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When Death Comes
When Death resolutely comes
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Abrupt with his deadly summons
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Tarry not like a galley slave
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But l
@valsa-george
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Serenade (For Music)
The western wind is blowing fair
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Across the dark AEgean sea,
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And at the secret marble stair
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My
Oscar Wilde
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Elegy III: Change
Although thy hand and faith, and good works too,
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Have sealed thy love which nothing should undo, /
John Donne
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Captive Bird - 12 Bars 12 Dreams
12 BARS
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Twelve brazen bars, one frozen lock!
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Confined, sublime, an ancient Roc
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endures inside
@terry-oleary
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Cycles
Viewboat,
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After viewboat,
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Passing.
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Viewboat,
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After viewboat,
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Water.
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Silent,
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Hollow’d g
@j-m-evjen
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~I Am
*I am a fragrant lily
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soft as morning dew,
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strength of mother lioness
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protecting her cubs
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I
@frieda-p
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Princess of Acadia
Waiting for the ferry
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I found a piece of Delft, or so I thought,
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Blue white and shining on the r
@james-andrews
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Good Old Flying Days
In the old days,
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you could sit
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next to the galley
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& get really juiced.
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Pretty stewardesses /
@jonny-angel
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Digitheism 3
nestled in the fist of fury
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followers following followers
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machine numbers generated
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to the siz
@marshall-gass
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yabadabadoo! (a good educashun is a terrible thing to waste)
7/30
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11:20 am
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no luddite me.
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no longing for the good old days.
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from one oft abused little ph
@ogdiddynash
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Autumn Bliss
The dew drenched garden on a crisp Autumn morning.
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Birds singing their song as you start your day.
@sarah-mulqueen
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Be Gone!
When is when is when is
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The next moment I will stand on this shore, looking out into the bay?
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Wh
@nasa-nick
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HMS Randalls
On the deck of the HMS Randalls
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Were sorry array of antiques
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They would amble about in their san
@ben-jones
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Faint, New Blue
The thunderclouds circle the Valley.
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Soothing sounds from the darkest formations.
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Send me off sh
@shawnreeder
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Water Dancer
Low light and the murky air
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Damp, lurid; dust parade
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Stale breath and the pounding of soft wood
@j-t-gaut
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A Cry For Kindred Wings
As the majestic eagle loves his air,
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Climbing, twisting, up his wispy stair,
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Mocking Icarus’s to
@william-bednar
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Those Shelter Island Nights,
By S E T
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Those Shelter Island nights,
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When the air hung sweet and salty
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and the shell-laced, p
@Steler1
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The Beaming Up of Captain Kirk's Toupee
All of this just so happened
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With the saying of one simple phrase
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"Beam me up Scotty"
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Was all
@mike-hauser
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Mexico Calling Beauty
Sweet caress, Mexico calling Beauty
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Heaven casting shadows on body
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Melting into shore-sprayed oc
@kristofer-von-coons
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