yachtsman_7yachtsman_7 Most Commented Poems (55)

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three cheers for the blues

two dogs had I I have to say called one Hipp Hipp called one Hooray Hipp Hipp a husky fearsome, true Hooray a spikey Kerry Blue and so...
433160Apr 2020Apr 2020Apr 7

theoretical physics

cambridge on a sunny morn a professor deep in thought a quasi quantum quandary his mind now overwrought now the kernel of dilemma the cause o...
450160Apr 2020Apr 2020Apr 19

Surf

5am.. I take my board and smell the sky the tide swims round the breeze a spell and says goodbye the initial hit of cold and salt gives wa...
465150Feb 2021Feb 2021Apr 9

streets (for Liam Reilly)

For Liam Reilly (Singer, Songwriter, RIP)...
421120Jan 2021Jan 20214 hrs ago

old cars and rusted hearts

the cafe was closing and the air was darker than age Mary was fixing her order and her world had become like a cage will you still se...
383110Apr 2020Apr 2020Apr 12

Angel from Montgomery

John Prine RIP...
435100Apr 2020Apr 2020Apr 21

the wreck of the catherine anne

fragments of stories half heard in the inn awoke in me fires stoked by the gin catherine anne moored in secret twilight buckled neath bullion...
964100Jun 2020Jul 2020Apr 13

something shimmering and right

pause and feel it so familier yet you've never seen it with your eyes a kind of innocent expression something naive something wise...
614100Feb 2021Mar 2021Apr 19

coining it

to a five penny piece I shrunk to the size as life made me hard in the head and eyes so pressed ganged was I on a leathery ship that lived in...
401100Feb 2021Mar 2021Apr 9

if you're reading this

If you're reading this I'm no longer around it's a note I left I hope it's found when life is tricky you gamble cares so I slid down the appl...
503100May 2020Jun 2020Apr 16

we endure

I got your picture in my cabin your smiling face is everywhere your ghost is what I sail on through the ocean of your hair and my work it takes me...
629100Apr 2020Jul 2020Apr 9

Marianne

step into the make believe footfalling into stones where memories are citadels wider than truth her bones I never knew the right words you...
46990May 2020Jul 2020Apr 7

the wild swan of blackrock

down by the cold sea there lives a wild swan who floats high on the harbour till all tides are gone all alone in this world she sails by her leave...
39880Jun 2020Jun 202021 hrs ago

to remake anew

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 yet I...
48480Feb 2021Jul 2023Apr 23

you

If I could hold the quill of truth over the page of unfolding story and hold it still and let the page itself write the words of your definin...
44880Jan 2021Jan 2021Apr 12

Dec, 2019

I.. once had a girl or should I say I once had three blonde, brunette and red one crazy night took me to bed they told me they worked...
41580Dec 2020Jan 2021Apr 9

reasons I live on a boat

she looks at me, mid pub, and asks in a way, rhetorical as if she knows something I don't and will never "why do you live on a boat?" for the...
38580Dec 2020Dec 2020Apr 19

cars and girls

the cafe was closing and the air was darker than age Mary was fixing her order and her world had become like a cage will you still see me...
37470Nov 2020Nov 2020Apr 22

fizzion chips

cambridge on a sunny morn a professor deep in thought a quasi quantum quandary his mind now overwrought now the kernel of dilemma the cause of...
42170Feb 2021Feb 2021Apr 19

ordinary love

I see you everyday its not important you see me I'm the the man who moors his boat near your house upon the quay your son is older than me lear...
45671Sep 2020Oct 2020Apr 6

the pub on poet's corner

I was mending a hull 'neath the crying gull when the call came down the line my dad had gone his time had come and a world of hurt was mine...
29260Sep 2020Sep 2020Apr 16

surf

I'd rather go home and live up a tree than to be dry forever and forget the 'ol sea and I'd rather go hungry than eat on the street than miss...
35860Jul 2020Jul 2020Apr 21

Angel

well heaven knows and heaven lies I'm travelling down this road under.. stationary skies the distances are vast I can see no end its easy...
97560Jun 2020Jun 2020Apr 1

the undressed oak

he sat on the old deck chair and thought about her about how she tied a strand of blonde behind her ear when she was anxious how the sun made p...
49360Nov 2020Mar 202115 hrs ago

guitar

I spent monday just walking through town searchin' for magical timbers of brown I watched tuesday morning arrive like a swan calm at the surf...
78660Jul 2020Jul 2020Apr 7

the air did move in silent sing

the air did move in silent sing as linnets sung on warble wing and truth did shine upon it's clock as two moored souls depart the dock time bent...
41360Dec 2020Dec 2020Apr 22

iron bars

I came from the sea I came from the sea is that woman still there does she still wait on me? I toiled on the sea I toiled on the sea until I t...
42450Apr 2020Apr 2020Apr 8

tracks

I sit transfixed as thought it flies to see warmth twice inside her eyes a carraige full of moving breath some bound for life some bound for death...
37250Jan 2021Jan 202124 hrs ago

tales of the everyday

For John Prine...
34051Apr 2020Apr 2020Apr 3

instinct

I could've had religion but I loved God too much I could've fought for a living in boxing rings and such but I guess we are who we are and we c...
37850Oct 2020Oct 2020Apr 19

the rebuild

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 yet...
30650May 2020May 2020Apr 19

her own way

she was tough (as they come) in a coat of pain she was harder than diamonds left out in the rain and she smiled qualified at how life s...
34650Feb 2021Feb 2021Apr 9

girl on a train

I sit transfixed as thought it flies to see warmth twice inside her eyes some bound for town some bound for death a carraige full of movin...
36840Jun 2020Jun 2020Apr 17

sea of keels

heaven knows and heaven tries unpick the wrongs you've done unpick the lies cos you don't know how it feels trudging through a day in a sea...
37340Nov 2020Nov 20207 hrs ago

scars

Pop, it's that time of year when Christmas is nearby the earth has made its trip again around the velvet sky we fought like tigers all the t...
29940Nov 2020Nov 2020Apr 9

marianne

drank whisky from a bellybutton after hours in a bar heard the sound of my breathing through the lungs of your guitar heard a seagull s...
37840Jan 2021Jan 2021Apr 12

covid 19

there was a girl in china but the radio signal died I told her we were hundred to keep her spirit but I lied people started dropping in the spr...
33240Apr 2020Apr 2020Apr 3

her question (my answer)

she looks at me, mid pub, and asks in a way, rhetorical as if she knows something I don't and will never "why do you live on a boat?" for the...
36540Apr 2020Apr 2020Apr 7

neat whiskey (and untidy women)

drank whiskey from her navel after hours in a bar heard the sound of my breathing through the lungs of your guitar and lightnings just...
31430Jul 2020Jul 2020Mar 30

30 years

we came from near we came from far to trust the truth to duel and spar to stand upon the hill of scarves to nurture all that darkness star...
95430Jun 2020Jun 2020Apr 7

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