"fogg" poems
Water from stone
Warmth from snow
Fire from Ice
Flames without glow
Sunshine at Midnight
Stars at noon
Clouds in a clear sky
Seas on the moon
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Sep 20, 2011
Sep 20, 2011 at 4:10 AM UTC
A thriving port
A declining port
A potential port
Cliches
A dockland
A wasteland
A stones throw
From my home
A docker
A carter
A clark
No vacancy
USA
EEC
A History
Our dockland
A grain store
A butter mountain
A starving world
An unused fountain
A dock village
A flower show
No work for
A dockland
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Jul 27, 2011
Jul 27, 2011 at 11:26 AM UTC
Up to the North
Down to the South
Keep the ships feeding
The big Mersey's mouth
14 big docks
And 19 big stops
Dad's got big hands
He works at the 'Brock'
He's seen Alexandra
And Nelson too
He passes the Princes
On the way to the 'Loo
Jump off at the Sandon
For a bevvy with Joe
Saturday's half day
To the match he will go
The merchants at Toxteth
Are rubbing their hands
There's money in shipping
And at Seaforth Sands
Jump off at Pier Head
If yer wearing a shirt
Stay on till Herculaneum
To get covered in dirt
The EMUs keeping rolling
From morning til night
Our dockers umbrella
What a beautiful sight
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Oct 7, 2011
Oct 7, 2011 at 3:13 PM UTC
In sunshine
A shadow
Through brightness
Such darkness
Though joy
This Sadness
From closeness
To distance
A bond
Now broken
A trust
Destroyed
So years
Once forged
Like leaves
Now crumbled
Tides turning
Rivers divided
Two paths
Parting
Forever
Decided
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Jul 29, 2011
Jul 29, 2011 at 4:20 AM UTC
When we are needy
The greedy feed easy
When we just please
We are easy to tease
Seeking approval
Is responsibility removal
Who's approval do I need?
To make the choice to succeed
Feeling displeased
Like feeling dis-ease
It leads to disease
That leads to decease
Seeking to blame
The simplest game
Avoiding a responsibility
For my own possibility
Choosing my emotion
Without the commotion
Didn't choose the inference
But I do own the response
Anger like coal
Burns who it holds
Vengeance a slave
So dig it two graves
No need to accept
No need to reject
No need to adore
No need to abhor
No need to be needy
So, needy no more
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Sep 26, 2011
Sep 26, 2011 at 3:08 PM UTC
Mersey Ferry, Mersey Ferry,
Go across the sea,
Take them a Daffodil,
Take them an Iris,
Tell them I love them
And tell them I care
Return them back safely
And you shall be queens
So, go bring my loved ones
Back home to me
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Oct 7, 2011
Oct 7, 2011 at 2:46 PM UTC
I wanted to watch you
My eyes were shy
I wanted to kiss you
My lips were dry
I wanted to hold you
My arms were weak
I wanted to tell you
I could not speak
I wanted to love you
Just never found the voice
I wanted to be with you
Just never made that choice
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Jul 29, 2011
Jul 29, 2011 at 4:38 AM UTC
*WHERE I GO FROM THIS SHORE..
WHERE I HAVE REACHED
FROM THAT SHORE..
YESTERDAY
THOSE WHO BROUGHT ME
HERE IN THE BOAT OF LOVE ..
TODAY IT DISAPPEARED IN THE FOGG. .
THE DISTANCE OF TWO SHORES
TRYING TO MAKE US SEPARATE
FROM EACH OTHER. ..
WITH THIS NOW
YOU ARE VERY FAR AWAY FROM ME.
EVEN THOUGH
I KNOW THAT
YOU ARE VERY CLOSE TO ME
.LIKE A HEART AND THROB. .
MADE for EACH OTHER. .
TODAY I AM LYING HERE
WITH YOUR THOUGHTS...
TOO MUCH HURT
TOO MUCH LOSING. ...
.YOUR MEMORIES
KILLING ME SOFTLY
AND I AM NOT RESISTING FROM IT.
.I AM STILL ALONE HERE
WAITING FOR YOU
INTO THIS SHORE OF DARKNESS SCREAMING ALOUD. ..
BUT NO ONE IS HERE TO HEARD MEE..
.I AM DROWNING
HERE IN THE SHORE...
NO ONE WILL COME TO SAVE ME
TO PULL ME..
FROM YOUR MEMORIES. .
WHERE I GO DON'T KNOW. ..
WHERE I WILL REACH DON'T KNOW ...
BUT I AM WAITING
AND NEED FOR YOUR LOVE BOAT ....
ONE DAY
IT WILL AGAIN APPEAR
ON THIS SHORE.....*
.MGO
Dec 19, 2014
Dec 19, 2014 at 2:51 PM UTC
Snoop dogg, snoop lion
Through the fogg we see hes cryin
we ask him why he will not tell
He broke his favorite reggae bell
It sounded smooth and made him feel good
Just like his kush that he burned in the hood
Dre gives his condolences but it is no use
Snoops bell has already tied its nuse
So for his bell we mourn, for his bell we pray
Light one for the bell, it died to day
Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 8:01 PM UTC
Phileas Fogg,
On a brigantine sledge,
Braved the Omaha wind
As it twirled.
So, Jules Verne might say
That a full eighty days
Is plenty to travel the world.
Amelia Earhart
Crossed the sea –
The quickliest feat
…For a girl –
In twelve hundred forty
Short minutes, you know:
Others failed, but gave it a whirl.
Rosemary Doyle,
Our wonderful mum,
Exceeded these
Feats of grand scale!
She has crossed oceans faster,
Breezed over Great Plains,
And – without perspiration – prevailed!
Carefully, casually,
She raised five kids:
‘Neath our burden
She never collapsed.
Loving and giving
Us lives we are living.
Have there – really – eight decades elapsed?
Octogenarian?
Silliest word:
It sounds like
A sea creature’s vet,
But if you want true fun,
Then just orbit the sun
Eighty times, like our mom: It’s no sweat!
© 2Mar2018 DracoTalpus
For Rosemary N. Doyle
On the occasion of her 80th birthday
Mar 3, 2018
Mar 3, 2018 at 6:35 PM UTC
Love would bring us freedom
When the passion's gone
This lust that comes between us
Beyond this moment
There is none
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Sep 20, 2011
Sep 20, 2011 at 3:44 AM UTC
I dont think she remembers why she came.
Why she is a different person, when it rains.
When everything began, before she knew her name.
Before this creature, she became.
With the thickening Fogg and Desolate Rain; she grip's her cloak and follow's her pain.
Her lifeless eyes lead her astray, as her feet trip over one another before two others came.
She made her way into a clearing and silence she regains.
The dark purple skies reveal a shape of blame and into her form she became.
Her sense's heightened like a catalyst, her intentions were vague. Inside her heart was filled with rage.
She made her way into town, devouring all that stood in her way.
Her blood shot eyes could see for miles. Her smell was refrain.
But unto others she would look the same until her mistakes began to leave a trail from which she became.
They gathered in many, they carried they're pitch forks and Stakes but nothing would **** her and she would eventually get away.
Leaving the town in fear, she made away. She layed low for year's until one mysterious day.
A weary traveler stumbled across her home fatigued. Riddled with torment, the man lay waste.
Her heart poured for the man and so she decided to let him stay.
She catered to his wounds and she fed him each day.
He then returned to health and asked for her Name.
She barried her head, she did not say.
The man so thankful for her help; he decided to stay and pay back the woman who had no name.
He did not remember from which he came, this weary Traveler also had no name.
He promised that he would do anything for her to let him stay.
She gathered his stuff and pushed him away.
She shut him out when it started to rain.
The man confused inside but determined for change.
He decided he would go into town and return with necessary things.
As he returned there was a beast at her door. In a panic he grabbed a rock but The beast instincts much quicker than his own. The strength of ten men charged him down to the ground.
This beast would not take his life all at once.
The man remembered in that very moment from in which he Came.
But he still loved her, So he pursued her any way.
The beast then Struck him down. This time oblivious in rage.
She tore him limb from limb but Realizing was half of her Pain.
The other part of her enjoyed it and so she continued to slay.
I dont think she remembers from which she became. Her lifeless eyes that lead her astray.
Her feet fall over one another before two others came.
-RSC
Sep 17, 2017
Sep 17, 2017 at 3:12 PM UTC
Darkness touches window panes
And seeps right through the walls
Traveling back from years ago
With secrets it still recalls
Stillness stirs and senses tingle
With fingers along the spine
Imagining its an angel's voice
Or something less divine
Whispered words fill the silence
And within these walls it gathers
Touches and then passes through
Right through these earthly tethers
Turning keys in unlocked doors
A past existence now returns
Bygones can't be bygones
Whilst the past for justice yearns
Searching down the line for years
Looking for the chosen
To overcome their worldly fears
So the holding can be broken
To hear the voices from times passed
And secrets that must release
The tapestry of lies unmasked
So the past can live in peace
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Sep 22, 2011
Sep 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM UTC
Closed guarded secrets
Guard them with you heart
Guard them for eternity
For if I find out
What I find out
Sssssh
The cruel lies you've kept from me
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Jul 27, 2011
Jul 27, 2011 at 11:33 AM UTC
I went to a temple
They call a retreat
Monks put on robes
And walk in bare feet
I love what they're teaching
And their shaven haired looks
I so want those robes
To attachment I'm hooked
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Oct 2, 2011
Oct 2, 2011 at 5:30 AM UTC
Regret
Regress
Resent
Revenge
Expect
Accept
Respect
Perfect
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Aug 11, 2011
Aug 11, 2011 at 11:42 AM UTC
I've seen religious belief
Bring nothing but grief
When holy soldiers lives
Can be remembered by their wives
With nothing but a wreath
I've heard of political aims
From men with claims
To be able to see
The way to be free
Then pocket all the gains
I've know countries start wars
In the name of a cause
Thanking those that died
Forgetting those survived
To a round of applause
I've seen flags fly high
As young men die
With the family loss
Marked by a cross
But not a reason why
I'v asked what it means
When men forsake dreams
For a noble sacrifice
That takes away their life
For a propaganda machine
The answer comes again
And still remains the same
They sell us a story
Of honour and glory
Lest for truth we'd refrain
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Jul 23, 2011
Jul 23, 2011 at 12:21 PM UTC
Parting has come
It was destined to be
I can blame no-one
No-one but me
There are some people
Who are owed debt
They think this has passed
I'll make them regret
Time will soon come
Time to collect
Biding my time
From mercy refrain
All of my life
To pass on this pain
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Jul 27, 2011
Jul 27, 2011 at 11:31 AM UTC
Like a rampant plague
Destroying crops
Hate's as vague
As the mask it adopts
It comes and goes
In many forms
Like a morning frost
That kills at dawn
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Jul 26, 2011
Jul 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM UTC
Yachts like musical notes
Line the horizon in chorus
Whistling through the boats
As sails dance around the masts
The breeze plays flute
Against the trunks of palms
They sway to the tune
Each in perfect time
The sand ups and whirls
Then twists and turns
Like dancing hula girls
Twirling garlands above their heads
Birds rise and fall
With the song of the waves
while freedom she calls
And sings to us all
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Jul 27, 2011
Jul 27, 2011 at 1:18 AM UTC
One day soon
I'll be riding on the wind
One day soon
I'll be rising on the tide
Running over hills
With grass beneath my feet
The trees they call my name
And I know its one day soon
I'm walking by the sea
Water soft against my skin
Wave's they roar like thunder
And I know its one day soon
Resting in the valley
Rocks high upon my sides
Breathing echoes to the distance
And I know its one day soon
Searching through the darkness
For a star in a midnight sky
For star's all hold a message
And I know its one day soon
I'm looking to the heavens
I'm waiting for the voice
The one that calls my name
And says its one day soon
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Jul 27, 2011
Jul 27, 2011 at 11:51 AM UTC
Another fight
Walk away and write
Thoughts get crazy keep you up all night
Clear your mind till it goes numb
Tired of others treating you like you're dumb
You'd set them straight but all they do is hate
Give them something to do
since they have nothing better to do
Always willing to grow learn something new
Staying true to what you love
don't let others envy turn your heart blue
Called you names but unlike them full of pride not shame
Fake to your face talk behind your back no courage
Walk away no need to share their pain
Block out the bad memories forget all the drama
Focused on being a better person instead of sinking with them
Not going under always wonder sound of roaring thunder
Jun 22, 2015
Jun 22, 2015 at 4:17 AM UTC
Dark like a shadow
Cold like ice
Lost like a bird
On a winter's night
Nightfall will take you
Wrap you in her arms
With darkness protect you
Keep you from harm
Secrets kept safe
Stars behind a cloud
True self hidden
Jewels behind a shroud
This mystery you're hiding
Hidden since youth
The sun is still shining
On lies and the truth
copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
Jul 29, 2011
Jul 29, 2011 at 4:28 AM UTC
is this what i really want?
do i want the scars to fade way into the stars?
so far away that i wont remember what caused them?
its going to feel odd not seeing the fogg every time i turn not feeling the burn that caused them. do i want my memories to fade away so i wont remember the other day when i saw my mom get punched in the face and turned away? yea those were the days i remember it like it was just yesterday dam what a shame he put her through so much pain. He smashed the car into bits it through my mom in ditch man that day was a *****
Sep 9, 2013
Sep 9, 2013 at 7:01 PM UTC