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I went fishing with two witches Out in my new boat There was me, the witches Two black cats, and a little pygmy goat We sat out on the water The small odd group and me And in the first few hours Not one fish did we see The witches looked on skyward Grabbed hands to cast a spell They said that this worked wonders And then they both did yell Icarus, thickarus, giraffes and wild dogs Lizards, and giant gnu Bippity, Boppity, snakes and we wish An airborne callipoe stew Suddenly the water around the boat Started to steam, and then it did boil The sun disappeared, the sky went all black And the clouds went the colour of oil The witches both gathered the nets on the boat As the fish came on up from the deep They were out of the water and up in the air And through this the goat went to sleep Icarus, thickarus, giraffes and wild dogs Lizards, and giant gnu Bippity, Boppity, snakes and we wish An airborne callipoe stew Fish were around us, high in the air The witches waved nets as if mad The cats didn't move nor did the goat It was the best catch that I'd ever had After a while the sky turned to blue The witches sat back with a look We'd netted hundred of fish from the lake Now, they would have to be cooked Icarus, thickarus, giraffes and wild dogs Lizards, and giant gnu Bippity, Boppity, snakes and we wish An airborne callipoe stew I took the boat in, and docked on the shore With our fish all strung up just for show Everyone there asked what bait did we use? I just smiled, for they weren't set to know I go fishing with witches at least once a week My freezer is full and then some Their spell is amazing, it works every time They say it loud, and fish come Icarus, thickarus, giraffes and wild dogs Lizards, and giant gnu Bippity, Boppity, snakes and we wish An airborne callipoe stew
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Aug 1, 2016
Aug 1, 2016 at 2:57 PM UTC
Fishing with Witches
I went fishing with two witches Out in my new boat There was me, the witches Two black cats, and a little pygmy goat We sat out on the water The small odd group and me And in the first few hours Not one fish did we see The witches looked on skyward Grabbed hands to cast a spell They said that this worked wonders And then they both did yell Icarus, thickarus, giraffes and wild dogs Lizards, and giant gnu Bippity, Boppity, snakes and we wish An airborne callipoe stew Suddenly the water around the boat Started to steam, and then it did boil The sun disappeared, the sky went all black And the clouds went the colour of oil The witches both gathered the nets on the boat As the fish came on up from the deep They were out of the water and up in the air And through this the goat went to sleep Icarus, thickarus, giraffes and wild dogs Lizards, and giant gnu Bippity, Boppity, snakes and we wish An airborne callipoe stew Fish were around us, high in the air The witches waved nets as if mad The cats didn't move nor did the goat It was the best catch that I'd ever had After a while the sky turned to blue The witches sat back with a look We'd netted hundred of fish from the lake Now, they would have to be cooked Icarus, thickarus, giraffes and wild dogs Lizards, and giant gnu Bippity, Boppity, snakes and we wish An airborne callipoe stew I took the boat in, and docked on the shore With our fish all strung up just for show Everyone there asked what bait did we use? I just smiled, for they weren't set to know I go fishing with witches at least once a week My freezer is full and then some Their spell is amazing, it works every time They say it loud, and fish come Icarus, thickarus, giraffes and wild dogs Lizards, and giant gnu Bippity, Boppity, snakes and we wish An airborne callipoe stew
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Cleanliness and ****** The ship was old once it had been a big ship now it was small it had been overtaking by time, its shower system had sea water which was nice enough to cool off when it was hot. After having a shower, you needed a bucket of fresh water to rinse the salt away if not you would scratch all night have irritated skin For month we did not have a proper wash when our ship docked in Bremerhaven for repairs and we got fresh water found I had an extra pair of socks I didn’t know about it was wonderful having a hot shower I stayed under it til someone complained I was using all the warm water, even today the sense of cleanliness makes me shudder with delight. Whatever I had done in my youth the night before it helped to have a shower and wash the sin away the smell of “life buoy.” the only soap we knew about, made the difference the ****** loved it they knew you were clean ******
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Jan 27, 2017
Jan 27, 2017 at 4:57 AM UTC
cleanliness and ******
The creek out to our cottage was right out our front door... The boats were docked on down the line with fishermen galore... Motor boat, motor boat putt, putting down the line... I know you thought you were quiet but I could hear you just fine... I'd lay in bed and listen, to the fishermen in the boat... They would talk and laugh and sometimes tell a joke... I was just a little girl wishing I was going with them... But dad was at work, so there was no way I'd just have to wait for that special day... So I'd dream of the time when I could jump in that boat. with my fishing pole always ready had a bobber ready to float... by ~ judy
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Apr 13, 2014
Apr 13, 2014 at 11:15 AM UTC
Motor boat, motor boat...
It's a new day. She's standing by her lighthouse. Waiting for the day, her ship will arrive. She had a ship docked her port once. Oh, the memories they shared. Oh, the places they traveled. Oh, the love they had for one another. But suddenly, His ship sailed without her. He docked at a new port, Leaving her alone at her lighthouse. She's stuck. She still thinks of the Captain of the ship. Wondering if he thinks of her as he sails the seas. Wondering if they still have a fighting chance against the seas. She's sees a ship coming closer to her lighthouse! Could it be the ship that she gave everything for? The ship that left her at her lighthouse? The ship that has haunted her dreams? The ship that broke her in more ways than one? No, it's not... It's a new ship that she hasn't seen before. Who is this Captain? He's docking at her port and staring at her. He approaches her and smiles a friendly smile. She's hesitant and slowly backs away. Should she trust this new Captain that has entered her dock? He could be like the last Captain that left her at the lighthouse. Or he could be the Captain that takes her on a journey around the world.
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Nov 7, 2011
Nov 7, 2011 at 11:26 AM UTC
Lighthouse.
Air is perfume-light Elbows sank in my pillow I wake from slumber Chamber door opens Handmaiden brings good tidings from outer Kingdoms Holds a silver tray With scones, jam and honey for some chamomile tea Steaming hot china which I blow and gently sip I hum in delight Come, some scrambled eggs With toast and ice-cold fresh fruits Lemon slice in tea The handmaiden speaks As she opens the curtains The sun shines brightly Many ships have docked My kingdom grows in strength and in its beauty Another handmaid Holding a tray of pure gold I see its contents White and gold letters Written by your regal hands Kingdoms near and wide Handmaids open them So many sweet messages Blessings and congrats While sipping my tea I ask for my page and quill Write with golden ink
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 12:04 PM UTC
Queendom
A rotating wheel. Turning an axle. Grinding. Bolthead. Linear gearbox. Falling sky. Seven holy stakes. A docked ship. A portal to another world. A thin rope tied to a thick rope. A torn harness. Parabolic gearbox. Expanding universe. Time controlled by slipping cogwheels. Existence of God. Swimming with open water in all directions. Drowning. A prayer written in blood. A prayer written in time-devouring snakes with human eyes. A thread connecting all living human eyes. A kaleidoscope of holy stakes. Exponential gearbox. A sky of exploding stars. God disproving the existence of God. A wheel rotating in six dimensions. Forty gears and a ticking clock. A clock that ticks one second for every rotation of the planet. A clock that ticks forty times every time it ticks every second time. A bolthead of holy stakes tied to the existence of a docked ship to another world. A kaleidoscope of blood written in clocks. A time-devouring prayer connecting a sky of forty gears and open human eyes in all directions. Breathing gearbox. Breathing bolthead. Breathing ship. Breathing portal. Breathing snakes. Breathing God. Breathing blood. Breathing holy stakes. Breathing human eyes. Breathing time. Breathing prayer. Breathing sky. Breathing wheel.
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Feb 9, 2019
Feb 9, 2019 at 8:43 PM UTC
Wheel (DDLC)
Marooned Vapid beauty of this room Frothing carpet, ocean blue One wall me, the other you What lies between is residue Scribed on soggy, shipwrecked parchment Questions asked, time forgotten Who are we? What do we know? Into these questions Summer flows And thrashes at your Autumn’s brinks Yearlong they torment my brain Infringing on every season If not for the manic scheme To love and having loved be loved This correspondence to a distant land With stars, more numerous and brightly lit Than my burgeoning highway exit Would by no means have left my hand But if, against all odds, it will prevail Extolling truth’s folly, my sorrowful tale Quells with reason my groundless pride At having docked on your passionless harbor Unloading platonic cargo during our youth’s ebbing tide Must not create union of body or mind You swallow my horizon, like the sun twilight Though, one need not chase that orange orb for tomorrow In this night without fortitude, lewd humor consumes me Singing with the mouth on my head and your voice inside I plunge into darkness Skimming its silky surface Before zipping it behind me Shall I drown, as I have lived? In vain, my dreams your subjects Taken for ransom in your heart’s Tripoli Not surmising recompense, I forfeit this A note belying resonance Of my heart’s last echoed throe One desperate effort, giving up Feed every vestige to the void Wading, torso encumbered Each sullen relic of your memory Falls to the deep’s frigid ebony Then, only too late am I cognizant That my own breath is tribute yet spent Therefore if I were to float or swim I’d give you every ounce of who I am Convince you to relinquish me From your tepid, spurning sea Then lying beneath moist underbrush Slowly, breathe no more
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Aug 9, 2010
Aug 9, 2010 at 4:24 PM UTC
Marooned
Marooned Vapid beauty of this room Frothing carpet, ocean blue One wall me, the other you What lies between is residue Scribed on soggy, shipwrecked parchment Questions asked, time forgotten Who are we? What do we know? Into these questions Summer flows And thrashes at your Autumn’s brinks Yearlong they torment my brain Infringing on every season If not for the manic scheme To love and having loved be loved This correspondence to a distant land With stars, more numerous and brightly lit Than my burgeoning highway exit Would by no means have left my hand But if, against all odds, it will prevail Extolling truth’s folly, my sorrowful tale Quells with reason my groundless pride At having docked on your passionless harbor Unloading platonic cargo during our youth’s ebbing tide Must not create union of body or mind You swallow my horizon, like the sun twilight Though, one need not chase that orange orb for tomorrow In this night without fortitude, lewd humor consumes me Singing with the mouth on my head and your voice inside I plunge into darkness Skimming its silky surface Before zipping it behind me Shall I drown, as I have lived? In vain, my dreams your subjects Taken for ransom in your heart’s Tripoli Not surmising recompense, I forfeit this A note belying resonance Of my heart’s last echoed throe One desperate effort, giving up Feed every vestige to the void Wading, torso encumbered Each sullen relic of your memory Falls to the deep’s frigid ebony Then, only too late am I cognizant That my own breath is tribute yet spent Therefore if I were to float or swim I’d give you every ounce of who I am Convince you to relinquish me From your tepid, spurning sea Then lying beneath moist underbrush Slowly, breathe no more
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the morning sky performs a hot dance of rain. ever-growing lime washes away, white and sour mistaken by some noses as aromatics. a season of ever-ending frost absent from windows and misty misty journey through the rain without an umbrella. rain jilts its luscious sun-lover behind clouds. it beheads drops into the thin morning air only to be crushed by the sidewalk. this excites the worms who unearth themselves like fishing-bait zombies. the worms are then eaten by the birds who brave the rain and the slick sidewalk, once baptized, now eats their **** I step in a puddle with my rain boots. there are holes in their heels, and I feel my skin start to crinkle. I think of you for the first time in sky water unsubmerged docked landed and lean in to the liquid veil.
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Aug 7, 2017
Aug 7, 2017 at 12:13 PM UTC
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A little bird found a boat A little knot held it docked A little bird found out that the boat was soon heading out The sea is calm and the sun looks so far from the shore “Where are you headed?” asked the bird “Straight towards the sun,” the boat replied “You’re welcome to come along if you’d like.” The little bird’s eyes lit up. “Yes,” she said. “I’ve been waiting to sail toward that light for my entire life.” Anchor’s up, they headed out that night. The beginning was calm The sea was peaceful The moon was a kind and encouraging satellite They left all of the world’s crossed wires behind The sun was bright and the fresh salt water made them both feel alive. A couple months went by The boat noticed that every once in a while the little bird would fly off for some time I guess the little bird is just like myself, the boat thought. The little bird knew that the boat was heading to the same destination, however she wanted to fly there herself. Determined to find… Determined to find… Someone, somewhere that could give her wings a break. The boat looked up at its mast and wondered why the bird flies so many miles when the wind is willing to take us both in real time? I wonder why the bird works so hard to let go when there was never anything to hold The boat started to worry that the bird would leave home when she started to feel alone I wonder where that poor little bird keeps going? The boat kept sailing. The sun kept shining The wind kept blowing The water kept flowing… The little bird was off a few nautical miles on her own Wings working tirelessly The bird doesn’t like the salt, the heat, and the fact that she doesn’t know where she is going “I’m going to find that light,” the bird cried. And she kept flying in circles She could barely see the boat Exhausted she mumbles, “Where is that **** boat? I need to go home. I’m so tired. I’m so hot. I’m so lost. For the last few months I’ve just wanted to be home.” About to lose the energy to fly About to lose the energy to see the light About to lose all hope The bird started back in the direction of where she thought she’d last seen the boat “I want to go home!” “I need to go home!” Anxious but brave she tuned into herself, her heart, her intuition… Will it be enough to get her within reach of the boat… I’m not sure if we’ll ever know the ending to the story of The Bird & the Boat. But we can have hope. Or just please God let me know if I need to give up hope. Not on myself, just on us. Once again, I let go. Joseph S. Fusaro
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Jul 16, 2021
Jul 16, 2021 at 10:03 PM UTC
A Bird and a Boat
A little bird found a boat A little knot held it docked A little bird found out that the boat was soon heading out The sea is calm and the sun looks so far from the shore “Where are you headed?” asked the bird “Straight towards the sun,” the boat replied “You’re welcome to come along if you’d like.” The little bird’s eyes lit up. “Yes,” she said. “I’ve been waiting to sail toward that light for my entire life.” Anchor’s up, they headed out that night. The beginning was calm The sea was peaceful The moon was a kind and encouraging satellite They left all of the world’s crossed wires behind The sun was bright and the fresh salt water made them both feel alive. A couple months went by The boat noticed that every once in a while the little bird would fly off for some time I guess the little bird is just like myself, the boat thought. The little bird knew that the boat was heading to the same destination, however she wanted to fly there herself. Determined to find… Determined to find… Someone, somewhere that could give her wings a break. The boat looked up at its mast and wondered why the bird flies so many miles when the wind is willing to take us both in real time? I wonder why the bird works so hard to let go when there was never anything to hold The boat started to worry that the bird would leave home when she started to feel alone I wonder where that poor little bird keeps going? The boat kept sailing. The sun kept shining The wind kept blowing The water kept flowing… The little bird was off a few nautical miles on her own Wings working tirelessly The bird doesn’t like the salt, the heat, and the fact that she doesn’t know where she is going “I’m going to find that light,” the bird cried. And she kept flying in circles She could barely see the boat Exhausted she mumbles, “Where is that **** boat? I need to go home. I’m so tired. I’m so hot. I’m so lost. For the last few months I’ve just wanted to be home.” About to lose the energy to fly About to lose the energy to see the light About to lose all hope The bird started back in the direction of where she thought she’d last seen the boat “I want to go home!” “I need to go home!” Anxious but brave she tuned into herself, her heart, her intuition… Will it be enough to get her within reach of the boat… I’m not sure if we’ll ever know the ending to the story of The Bird & the Boat. But we can have hope. Or just please God let me know if I need to give up hope. Not on myself, just on us. Once again, I let go. Joseph S. Fusaro
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A place to spend your holiday A place of peace and getaway Pack your bags and grab a flight For Fiji is awaiting your atmost sight Early sunrise, cool sea breeze Waterfall wonders, you'll surely freeze Hikes like no other, activities you'll enjoy No dangers, no creatures no forest toy No roaring lions, no slithering snakes No bears of any kind that awakes Just wild birds chattering their plea "Come on humans, why do you flee" People friendly of all races Sometimes its hard to tell their origin by faces Food of great delicacy on a bed of island chill You'll not be disappointed when you'll get your bill White sandy beaches open to all Bonfire activities often on a roll Special island dances and firewalking by natives So much to do, plan your island motives Just now I see a big cruise ship docked at sea Why not come down and enjoy A small piece of heaven, my Fiji can be... ©sim
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Sep 23, 2017
Sep 23, 2017 at 4:21 AM UTC
My Country, My Fiji
This ship docked in my lonely harbour It was the prettiest catamaran I'd ever seen Delighted the captain shouted it's name "The EDB" his hazel eyes beamed He was filled with beauty inside and out And with his withdrawal came pain, no doubt After him came the figure that was the real mystery With charm and charisma he came to me "Hey my name is Jay, okay if I docked at your bay" Flashing an award winning smile I couldn't resist "Ofcourse! ofcourse!" I instantly hissed However it was the storm that he brought along I wish I had missed I couldn't bare another heartbreak No more vessels I'd tell the rest to skate But then M/V Drew came through and blew me away With a saddened heart I knew I could not allow him to stay My dock just suffered two terrible shocks No more, no more I want off these rocks Today was it my day to be free To embrace the ocean, find a ship that loves me Beyond the horizon floated my chance at more It was finally my time to leave Heartbreak Shore - (jrew)
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Nov 27, 2014
Nov 27, 2014 at 11:02 AM UTC
RelationSHIPS ⚓️⛵️
Thus on my genesis Love's fought Regret My Ardent Sire whose Merits installed These English Gifts whom I have thanked just yet Carried Misconstruction; And docked the Fine Toll This that Penance be my Honest Attempt Yet still besieged in case of Bad Timing The Gold I carry an Issue I Contempt Will try once more to Win his Best Blessing My how the Fortunes some drive the Mind mad And took my Heart back to a Wildman's State This cannot continue; Much have I had Sponge this Circled Self back to my Constraint. The Human in me, the Cause of my Lone And Sister's Reason I banged on the Phone.
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Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013 at 6:47 PM UTC
SONNET TRIBUTE SUNDRY: JESUS ***** C. MANDREZA JR.
a nacreous tossing around at the sides, a dappled silver sunlight if looked one way, an apocalyptic gloam if another, exhaled from a seeming mouth, feeding on what has already eviscerated an unfelt ***** a predator certainly its own prey, a heat certainly poison-breath on a cheek falling when a meretricious lover spouts that spurious hypocorism, and also just a wavering, iridescent puddle— cornered, soft as a liquid steel echo of a futile struggle rolling around, bouncing off a wine glass, and a porcelain table edge, while a listening head shakes, looks down despondently, gloom glowing out the hair, a voice jaded since birth saying some thing about differences, or a helpless slender strap of hope hanging itself on the way two other eyes look at it across checkered watered wings, two swirling god whorls, two effulgent galaxies the color of melting pine bole circling around in living umber striae, pulling its gaze, raising it, as if they, they were blazing truth cased behind lithophane, and it, only an aporetic puddle now of tepid ocher, a mild earth stone placed in a hand, asked what is thought of it and the response: yes, yes of course, before foreign distance splutters its face, and it retreats from its meaning imparted to every thing (with the vulnerable precision of a swaying finger tip) to the baby lanugo of a delicate floating, through human rills, of what is horizon docked, dead, not merely deciduous—forever jilted with breath bulging as when beating a flopping eyeless fish to half-dead, head tilted up a throat trying to pry itself free, trying to live by streaming snagless, airful, without spirant sound of going lost straight from the hands— then a short chop of fullness finally expunged and sputtering like an escaped tuft of shackled wonder soaring up the sky in a puff and soul ring.
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Mar 27, 2012
Mar 27, 2012 at 7:43 PM UTC
I in Graffiti Mural
a nacreous tossing around at the sides, a dappled silver sunlight if looked one way, an apocalyptic gloam if another, exhaled from a seeming mouth, feeding on what has already eviscerated an unfelt ***** a predator certainly its own prey, a heat certainly poison-breath on a cheek falling when a meretricious lover spouts that spurious hypocorism, and also just a wavering, iridescent puddle— cornered, soft as a liquid steel echo of a futile struggle rolling around, bouncing off a wine glass, and a porcelain table edge, while a listening head shakes, looks down despondently, gloom glowing out the hair, a voice jaded since birth saying some thing about differences, or a helpless slender strap of hope hanging itself on the way two other eyes look at it across checkered watered wings, two swirling god whorls, two effulgent galaxies the color of melting pine bole circling around in living umber striae, pulling its gaze, raising it, as if they, they were blazing truth cased behind lithophane, and it, only an aporetic puddle now of tepid ocher, a mild earth stone placed in a hand, asked what is thought of it and the response: yes, yes of course, before foreign distance splutters its face, and it retreats from its meaning imparted to every thing (with the vulnerable precision of a swaying finger tip) to the baby lanugo of a delicate floating, through human rills, of what is horizon docked, dead, not merely deciduous—forever jilted with breath bulging as when beating a flopping eyeless fish to half-dead, head tilted up a throat trying to pry itself free, trying to live by streaming snagless, airful, without spirant sound of going lost straight from the hands— then a short chop of fullness finally expunged and sputtering like an escaped tuft of shackled wonder soaring up the sky in a puff and soul ring.
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I sent a message out to sea, through wasted words it begs for your return. If the nautical clamor delivers it to you, we will be reunited soon. For weeks I wandered this lonely harbor sunset after sunset and hoped that the coastal breeze wouldn't bring with it your scent. I saw your face in my dreams, and that was almost too much... I sent out a message in a bottle, if it should reach your salted hideout, you'll soon find that your vessel is calling my soul to your sea... Sunrise after sunrise I wander this dewey harbor and search the docked ships for something familiar. And at night I'll sit out on the jetties, my eyes follow the guiding light out to sea and I'll think of you, and wish that when the coastal breeze blows east, you will accompany it back to me. So I wrote a message, addressed to my love out at sea, telling of my desires to join you. I'll leave this port behind and the sea will be our home. I sent out the message in a corked bottle, and hoped the waves will carry it your direction, and that you'll allow my love to be your beacon through the rough seas and guide you to shore. And night after night, I will sit and await the arrival of my craved mariner.
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Jul 12, 2011
Jul 12, 2011 at 7:08 AM UTC
Yes, Love Can Cross Oceans
Two inches was the measure, of young Stevies blunder, Digging out concrete, not knowing whats under. He felt a nugget, that wouldn't yield to the Pick, So he used the Jack-Hammer, until he got that "kick". Caught fire on the spot, looked at me, shocked, Died in flames, got a days pay docked. Cut the main cable, Fifty millimetres, metric, I know you hate to ask, but Friends aren't Electric. Dennis stepped back, pleased with his graft, Fell two hundred foot, down an unguarded shaft. Been on the Grinder, cutting out steels, So the Elevator boys could fix , their cogs and their wheels. Never said a word, no shout or no fuss, Dennis died like he lived, just one of us. Me and Baz on a roof, we knew was asbestos, Brittle like toffee, temperamental as Kate Moss, Had no crawling boards, so we tip-toed like burglars, Clinging on tightly, think Ivy on Pergola's. I heard the crack, leapt to the hip-tile, Baz clawed and scraped, resistance was futile. They spread out the sand, where Baz hit the deck, To mop up the blood, from a broken neck. Health and safety, if's and but's, Shoddy workmanship, taking short-cuts. We have no say, we try our best, Hard hats, harder boots and high-visibility vests, Are all that we leave, not Time-Shares or Merc's, Just daughters in tears, Dads not home from work.
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Jan 31, 2016
Jan 31, 2016 at 11:03 AM UTC
Death of a Tradesman
The smoke stacks that line the waterfront be like giant joints puffing thoughts of her into air embalmed by hundreds of rainy days That slow burn, against the icy bay and the barges that carry their loads through them This corner of the world gets six hours of daylight, tops Greys seared by neon, smoke and clouds and fog produced as one continuous substance There's a pleasant blurryness here floating amid the buoys and the docked ferryboats, In the way the monorails glide above toward a 1960s dream of the space age through an Amazonian jungle of glass and cranes in harmony with the clouds sailing overhead Here is where you go to let off steam deferred, where you ride trains through a kind of dark that arrives early, stays up late as shadows wander across the gum covered walls of Post Alley like ghosts made of espresso mist freed from lit joints protruding from the skyline to a high beneath starless heaven Resting into the glow of that harbor against thoughts of her that cloud the view of the sea.
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Feb 19, 2019
Feb 19, 2019 at 4:33 PM UTC
Dark at 4:30pm
Garden Parkway YMCA Dallas, Texas 22 November 1963 Darling Sophie, Could it be only two months since I let your fingers slip from my hand as that train departed Voronezh station? I fear that this trip was a great mistake. . . . The boat sailed from Sevastopol as scheduled. Just two days and we were through the Bosporus/Dardanelles and into the incredibly blue Aegean and the Mediterranean. On September 27 we passed Gibraltar and started the long haul across the Atlantic. The work was not demanding though the ship was quite ***** and not really very pleasant. We docked at Houston in the state of Texas on October 9. Defecting was surprisingly easy. There was supposed to be work in Dallas so I walked/hitch-hiked here last month. But I have not been able to find any work. The people here, though friendly, are coarse and brash. The stores overflow with televisions, record players, mink coats, but there are many very poor people here too... The great American leader, Kennedy, was shot and killed today, driving in his open-topped car along the streets of this very city. My money is gone; my strength, exhausted. How blithely I left you and Russia behind! I feel my lips brushing the tiny hairs on the back of your neck, your ******* swelling. . . . Sophie! May you know great happiness and love! I only ask that in the spring when you visit Krymskaya Pond, that you remember how we knelt there, how I whispered in your ear there, when the air is filled with the scent of its cherry trees that you remember what we felt there. . . .   Yours, always,    Nickolay
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Aug 1, 2017
Aug 1, 2017 at 2:02 PM UTC
Letter to Sophie
Garden Parkway YMCA Dallas, Texas 22 November 1963 Darling Sophie, Could it be only two months since I let your fingers slip from my hand as that train departed Voronezh station? I fear that this trip was a great mistake. . . . The boat sailed from Sevastopol as scheduled. Just two days and we were through the Bosporus/Dardanelles and into the incredibly blue Aegean and the Mediterranean. On September 27 we passed Gibraltar and started the long haul across the Atlantic. The work was not demanding though the ship was quite ***** and not really very pleasant. We docked at Houston in the state of Texas on October 9. Defecting was surprisingly easy. There was supposed to be work in Dallas so I walked/hitch-hiked here last month. But I have not been able to find any work. The people here, though friendly, are coarse and brash. The stores overflow with televisions, record players, mink coats, but there are many very poor people here too... The great American leader, Kennedy, was shot and killed today, driving in his open-topped car along the streets of this very city. My money is gone; my strength, exhausted. How blithely I left you and Russia behind! I feel my lips brushing the tiny hairs on the back of your neck, your ******* swelling. . . . Sophie! May you know great happiness and love! I only ask that in the spring when you visit Krymskaya Pond, that you remember how we knelt there, how I whispered in your ear there, when the air is filled with the scent of its cherry trees that you remember what we felt there. . . .   Yours, always,    Nickolay
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~~~ Happy Hanukkah Brother Nat! ~~~ *this poem is not for young lovers, seasoned soldiers of the heartfelt only need apply, give me my merry mercy-naries to save me from criminal holiday insouciance, shoot me with the rounds of caring, that come so fast and last as long as I can nod and wink...* ~~~ used to drink inspiration from Manhattan sidewalk rain riveted cracks, turn half overheard street conversation snatches into half decent poems by Nat(chez), professors turning phrases, upbringing a brain ratcheting, choreographers, dancing in body and spirit and word, in summation, a thief of opportunity... these days, the pattern prevailing, the El Niño de Natalino, is drawing up works from the wealth of messages and comments, my troubadours, my y'all youse guys, share, so as I compose, not knowing where this goes, I'm just simple knowing, that a heartfelt reach out, addressed as Happy Hanukkah Brother Nat! deserves the recognition of its sweet intent, in a lyric all its own, like a traditional festival Hanukkah jelly donut (true1) t'is the seasonal affectation of salutations all commencing with happy, never struck me as anything deeper than surficial superficial, but this time its textual emendation - the inclusion of genuine brotherly love, loops, Humpty Dumpty cracks and swoops, and here I am fastening word combos, when the clickty clack of the clock says uh-uh, poem in the making, natural verbal child birthing, sleep hours docked, and here I am, begetting instead of shushing a day-older brain to get-thee-to-a-hideaway... *this poem is not for young lovers, seasoned soldiers of the heartfelt only need apply, give me my mercy-naries to save me from criminal holiday insouciance, shoot me with the rounds of caring, that come so fast and last as long as I can nod and wink...* sooner than later it will be the Fourth, and in my eyes a day-deserving of a fireworks spectacular, though the month matters not, the sentiments of brotherhood and live love, independent and freely given, deserves enhanced ignition recognition and herein  supplied... you had me at the greeting so fleeting, then ask my advice, is there to be had a greater compliment, so my mien and demeanor are now modified an oath sworn, till the infamous 31st, every passerby and child will be bequeathed a shockingly rowdy, Happy and Merry, sincerity coated and tinged with you know what... ~~~ Dec. 3, 2015 nyc 11:12 pm
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Dec 3, 2015
Dec 3, 2015 at 11:27 PM UTC
Happy Hanukkah Brother Nat!
~~~ Happy Hanukkah Brother Nat! ~~~ *this poem is not for young lovers, seasoned soldiers of the heartfelt only need apply, give me my merry mercy-naries to save me from criminal holiday insouciance, shoot me with the rounds of caring, that come so fast and last as long as I can nod and wink...* ~~~ used to drink inspiration from Manhattan sidewalk rain riveted cracks, turn half overheard street conversation snatches into half decent poems by Nat(chez), professors turning phrases, upbringing a brain ratcheting, choreographers, dancing in body and spirit and word, in summation, a thief of opportunity... these days, the pattern prevailing, the El Niño de Natalino, is drawing up works from the wealth of messages and comments, my troubadours, my y'all youse guys, share, so as I compose, not knowing where this goes, I'm just simple knowing, that a heartfelt reach out, addressed as Happy Hanukkah Brother Nat! deserves the recognition of its sweet intent, in a lyric all its own, like a traditional festival Hanukkah jelly donut (true1) t'is the seasonal affectation of salutations all commencing with happy, never struck me as anything deeper than surficial superficial, but this time its textual emendation - the inclusion of genuine brotherly love, loops, Humpty Dumpty cracks and swoops, and here I am fastening word combos, when the clickty clack of the clock says uh-uh, poem in the making, natural verbal child birthing, sleep hours docked, and here I am, begetting instead of shushing a day-older brain to get-thee-to-a-hideaway... *this poem is not for young lovers, seasoned soldiers of the heartfelt only need apply, give me my mercy-naries to save me from criminal holiday insouciance, shoot me with the rounds of caring, that come so fast and last as long as I can nod and wink...* sooner than later it will be the Fourth, and in my eyes a day-deserving of a fireworks spectacular, though the month matters not, the sentiments of brotherhood and live love, independent and freely given, deserves enhanced ignition recognition and herein  supplied... you had me at the greeting so fleeting, then ask my advice, is there to be had a greater compliment, so my mien and demeanor are now modified an oath sworn, till the infamous 31st, every passerby and child will be bequeathed a shockingly rowdy, Happy and Merry, sincerity coated and tinged with you know what... ~~~ Dec. 3, 2015 nyc 11:12 pm
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Ive become haunted by a Demon Who’s making me question my mind At first I thought he was an Angel Cuz at first he seemed so kind He helped me to unwind And offered me support When I was able to breathe him in I felt like I was finally docked at port I found his presence intoxicating I always wanted him around The insight he brought to my life Was really quite profound But those good feelings didn’t last forever And I decided to take some time away But he refused to leave my side And I began to feel like prey I can’t ever seem to escape from him Hes mastered manipulation and seduction My inability to walk away Will be the cause of my destruction I look into the mirror each day And am frightened by what I see Dark circles and red eyes Is that the demon or is that me? Every time I think I’ve escaped He pulls me right back in “You can’t survive without me You just have to let me in.” His voice echos through my head His thoughts replace my own ….I love  him...I need him...I crave him   And I’m afraid to be alone I fear that I am not strong enough And I want to let the demon win Let go of loneliness-- embrace corruption. I submit to my addiction again
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Sep 3, 2018
Sep 3, 2018 at 2:52 AM UTC
Haunted
You sit now stranded, moored to nothing, going nowhere, your bilges dry, your engines shut down and up inside the salt-rusted skin, pocked with rot, where once you sliced across the water's top, a vessel full of life, bow and stern, prop and anchor, never ever in your mindless dreams believing you would stop, and no one would even care- no sailors, no cargo, no sunrises, sunsets, waves and beasts of the deep to sound their fare-thee-wells, no more those chimed 8 bells, you, now stopped, docked and alas, forgot. _______ Derelict: http://beautyineverything.com/5096209757
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Oct 20, 2010
Oct 20, 2010 at 4:42 AM UTC
Derelict
My shaft-craft docked I with hers As in orbit the space shuttle Atlantis, Before it was by NASA rested: So up she swallowed of for three Inexpressible minutes, my darling dilly, -- Just like a shark swallowed up stiff Jonah For three days in her belly, --in Havana, Where I was locked in tween her hot thighs, Heaving out we both extraterrestrial sighs Upon the green with amours encrusted.
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Jan 5, 2012
Jan 5, 2012 at 11:54 AM UTC
In Havana
Your moldable heart So many times over Lit up and torn apart Like a mined diamond Dug up and brushed off So quit your whinin' You're just lucky Someone like me came along I'm way ahead of you Mentally, emotionally and physically You're a pretty sad excuse For a person in such a situation And there's nothing you can do But listen and soak up information Keep playing the sponge And someday you might get the correct formation I hold the strings Don't you see or are you that blind? There are so many things To be done, to be had But you just hold on and take to the clings And I can't say I'm appreciative Of the fact that you can't seem To be anything but argumentative I'm a fuckin' gift Something shiny in the fog That comes to give you a lift You're nothing but the bump on that log Who goes and makes a shift When she hears a little something questionable Through your heart I will sift And by the end your arteries will be bendable Your heart of clay Lays lazy and easily excitable When I docked in your bay It looked like saving you was viable But I refuse to stay I regret to inform of the incoming storm But I must decline your invitation to play
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Feb 27, 2012
Feb 27, 2012 at 11:41 AM UTC
Heart of Clay
You are like a sailor who wants to forget the sea. And I am not the shore you cling to or the lighthouse that guided you home; I am the boat, left docked and forgotten, and the waves that call you back to the life you were born to live.
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Jul 5, 2013
Jul 5, 2013 at 1:51 PM UTC
Sailor's Song
Wine and cigarettes all i have in vain But nothing comes close to ease my pain Winter has frozen my pale fingers As i walk and linger My father's last words flew through my heart As he touched my face and i cried to never part The wood floor creaked as i walked The walls shattered as i talked He said the old house is alive I knew it when it was so quiet at night Whenever i said my flat prayers to Christ I did not come back for melancholy of my boyhood friends As memories have always been in the right places to suspend Like cold brief kisses shared before goodbyes Struggling for never ending happines to come by Autumn came when i was still deep in slumber Tucked up innocent in his warm chamber Whenever i opened my eyes again he was there Watching out the window, looking so fair There were nights when the ferry docked And those distinct shapes in the mist outside i could not make out There he went away Ferried over so far away As i did to him likewise now
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Aug 23, 2011
Aug 23, 2011 at 10:57 AM UTC
Rock Of Fergus