Poem | Order by Most Viewed | Order by Most Commented | Order by Most Liked | Created | Commented | Viewed |
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the blue whalewe tracked it with technology we fixed a tracing ring in the hope of reading data the haunted click to sing we followed her in boats she pitche... | 435 | 4 | 0 | Aug 2019 | Aug 2019 | May 16 |
farewell BMWWell I took a heavy spill and I royally broke a part of my head I wrote off my motorcycle and I spent three months in a bed well she was go... | 405 | 3 | 0 | Aug 2019 | Aug 2019 | 10 hrs ago |
girl from elsewherethere'll be people on sundays standing in doorways praying to statues they want to believe her face amongst many a sunflowered penny shined... | 427 | 4 | 0 | Aug 2019 | Sep 2019 | May 14 |
trucks, waitresses and dockyardsthe dark swam down from the ceiling.. to a world all studded with stars and she turned the key in her pickup.. and drove home like all the rest of... | 418 | 4 | 0 | Jan 2019 | May 2019 | May 12 |
notes on a womanyou know the summer's fading.. and the night is getting cold.. there's an east wind in the harbour.. and lord knows I'm getting old.. and my work it t... | 461 | 8 | 0 | Mar 2019 | Apr 2019 | May 21 |
uptown girlyou and me in a little car shop buying dreams with the money we got but dreams are free at the break of dawn one by one we let them go n... | 316 | 2 | 0 | Mar 2019 | Mar 2019 | May 17 |
the cowboy and the mermaidthere's a golden sun on a spinning wheel there's a yellow fleck in a pan full of steel there's the fire I spat and the breath I once drew... | 354 | 6 | 0 | Mar 2019 | Apr 2019 | May 11 |
roads and allwell heaven knows and heaven lies I'm driving down this road under stationary skies distances are vast I can see no end it's easy just to c... | 548 | 13 | 0 | Mar 2019 | Jul 2019 | May 20 |
couragewhen the clinker fails in the boards of your heart when the gunnells dip and you lose your chart when you sail alone through the seas of ste... | 481 | 4 | 0 | Mar 2019 | Apr 2019 | May 3 |
rusted truckscarrie walked out of the diner.. her shift was nearing its end.. and the trees made love in the darkness.. and her eyes to a smile did pretend talk... | 516 | 7 | 0 | Mar 2019 | Jul 2019 | May 16 |
wandering angerI met her in the winter.. in a bar upon the hill.. when the dark was carved from starlight.. and the moon had paid the bill I came in from the wil... | 453 | 8 | 0 | Mar 2019 | May 2019 | May 9 |
Dante: nature is the art of God(or the unwitting brilliance of someone who didn't know it) you never walked.. 'twas more the curve of the earth.. found a mooring.. in the shape o... | 484 | 8 | 0 | Apr 2019 | Apr 2019 | May 15 |
the seabe it in the tumble aft the winch or out the bow in winter's pinch my heart oft seeks the raven tide in floating cabin I reside bearded,... | 655 | 5 | 0 | Apr 2019 | Apr 2019 | May 17 |
on strawberry hillFor Vanessa... | 353 | 2 | 0 | Apr 2019 | May 2019 | May 17 |
stay the course, girlfor Vanessa... | 446 | 4 | 0 | Apr 2019 | Aug 2020 | May 11 |
silent highwayI see missed steps along the silent highway.. forgotten by the sound of endless cars.. how can a soul of your enduring conscience.. compete with all t... | 416 | 8 | 0 | Apr 2019 | Jun 2019 | May 4 |
ballad of a backwards playing jukeboxI'm going down to the record station.. I'm gonna buy me a backwards jukebox.. I'm going to play all my favourite songs wearing nothing.. but my hat an... | 456 | 14 | 0 | Apr 2019 | Apr 2019 | May 18 |
the last job"when I buried hate and then forgave a poem grew around the grave" The old man appeared surly, because he WAS surly. He spent the latter pa... | 352 | 1 | 0 | Apr 2019 | Sep 2019 | May 4 |
on a train to CornwallI sit transfixed as thought it flies to see warmth twice inside her eyes reflected in the glassy pane two pupils flower past disdain a... | 290 | 9 | 0 | Apr 2019 | May 2019 | May 20 |
the "Raven"the 'Raven' is a diner that lapps the sea foreshore it haunts my mangled memory as it raps upon my door apple tart and finest cheesecake when I... | 320 | 4 | 0 | May 2019 | May 2019 | 9 hrs ago |
iron barsI came from the sea.. I came from the sea.. is that woman still there.. does she still wait on me..? I took a life.. I took a life.. as a life tri... | 338 | 2 | 0 | May 2019 | May 2019 | May 5 |
cautionary taleto a five penny piece I shrunk to the size as life made me hard in the head and the eyes so press ganged was I on a leathery ship that liv... | 395 | 16 | 0 | May 2019 | May 2019 | 6 hrs ago |
the swan at portI see you every day it's not important you see me I'm the man who moors his boat near your house beside the quay your son is older than me lear... | 346 | 6 | 0 | May 2019 | May 2019 | May 17 |
the girl in the waveon a spring time morn was wonder born a strange fluke cut the sky from eddied hair a magic stare told me that truth can't lie a girl who... | 414 | 10 | 0 | May 2019 | May 2019 | 21 hrs ago |
the bookstoretommy was the skipper on the tugboat 'whiskey smoke`.. he lived for his two husky dogs and loved his rum and coke.. twenty one and crazy.. I was r... | 419 | 10 | 0 | May 2019 | Jun 2019 | May 18 |
"triangle"spiraling debauchery the pit in which I fell tis fiendishly amoral the tale of which I'll tell I dreamt of tax accountancy but my parents had... | 389 | 7 | 0 | Jun 2019 | Jun 2019 | May 10 |
that girlI met me a girl called Deja Vu her folks seemed to know me and her dog did too she told me my future as we lied in bed she seemed to know th... | 400 | 7 | 0 | Jun 2019 | Jun 2019 | 57 mins ago |
Leslie Annwell you walk with a swagger that's unearned but it always fits you well and you speak in a way the warms the places where them wildflowers d... | 362 | 2 | 0 | Jun 2019 | Jun 2019 | May 9 |
"another"a town called Another a town like the others where people dug coal mines drank with their brothers I met her in winter when cold slept in s... | 369 | 4 | 0 | Jun 2019 | Jun 2019 | May 17 |
ragnarok"father's fly me strength of two all wars are old yet I am new" the trees will bud bodies without any eyes as the calm before battle sleeps in t... | 360 | 5 | 0 | Jun 2019 | Jun 2019 | May 8 |
the artistour tale begins midwinter in austere and ancient rooms.. where landlords sold satanic ales to drink away life's glooms a tortured artist drinks a... | 368 | 4 | 0 | Jun 2019 | Jul 2019 | May 16 |
the lawyer and the fishermanlawyer I met on account of a bet which was owed yet un-honoured to me I took her for chips in a forest of ships she chose a symphony no... | 261 | 0 | 0 | Jul 2019 | May 9 | |
"Bluebell"she was crying in the sea unloved and worn she spoke to me her heart and boards were long ripped out her diesel engine left in doubt ye... | 352 | 4 | 0 | Jul 2019 | Jul 2019 | May 10 |
the willow signs her name on the riverwhen the playing cards fall from the poker game of life in name or in spirit I'll always call you wife you watched me live my dreams as I tra... | 385 | 4 | 0 | Jul 2019 | Jul 2019 | May 14 |
some nightswhen the river is gentle when sound runs and sighs when starlight is music when I first heard your lies your blonde hair silk curtains fell... | 417 | 4 | 0 | Jul 2019 | Jul 2019 | May 14 |
the girl after.. the girl after youold boats they can charm any ocean fibreglass lord knows runs afoul and for every newsflashy gimmick there's a hundred year handcrafted d... | 353 | 1 | 0 | Aug 2019 | Aug 2019 | May 17 |
guitarI spent Monday just walking through town.. searching for magical.. timbers of brown Tuesday's arrival.. flooded my deck.. from the truest of branch... | 379 | 2 | 0 | Jul 2019 | Jul 2019 | May 14 |
the last Irish wolf, 1786to the day the darkness brings an end I am the last Irish wolf the darkness is my friend they killed me and they skinned me as the virgin... | 416 | 2 | 0 | Jul 2019 | Jul 2019 | May 14 |
the girl in the posterthey said misfortune stalked you.. they said that life was hard in the genetic school of poker you were dealt the hardest card a rogue gene: yo... | 423 | 5 | 0 | Jul 2019 | Jul 2019 | May 14 |
wrapped handsall I was given was strength a dull and blunted tool I stare out at beauty with the clarity of a fool all I was given was ferocity a rulebook w... | 601 | 6 | 0 | Aug 2019 | Aug 2019 | May 14 |
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