yachtsman_7yachtsman_7 Last Commented Poems (55)

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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...
48680Feb 2021Jul 2023Apr 26

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...
49460Nov 2020Mar 2021Apr 25

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...
616100Feb 2021Mar 2021Apr 25

warrior

he grew up tall in this small land and worked the beaches field and strand until reward won mind and hand and left his youth for golden band...
38930Mar 2021Mar 202118 hrs ago

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...
402100Feb 2021Mar 2021Apr 27

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

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...
466150Feb 2021Feb 2021Apr 26

questions

could a woman love the light could she'd gladly lease each part could the angel of our darkness make a mooring in her heart could a human heart...
36530Feb 2021Feb 2021Apr 9

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...
34850Feb 2021Feb 2021Apr 27

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...
45180Jan 2021Jan 20212 hrs ago

strawberry Hill

all was the same on strawberry hill the city looked up at those walking down and tethered boats traced the breath of cloud all was the same...
37330Jan 2021Jan 2021Apr 27

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...
37940Jan 2021Jan 2021Apr 26

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...
37350Jan 2021Jan 202116 hrs ago

streets (for Liam Reilly)

For Liam Reilly (Singer, Songwriter, RIP)...
422120Jan 2021Jan 2021Apr 27

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...
41680Dec 2020Jan 2021Apr 27

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...
38680Dec 2020Dec 2020Apr 27

sand

friends hear me now and hear my plea I've wintered long in fields of sea I've fought and fight against the wind I've seen both poles and seen them...
31530Dec 2020Dec 2020Apr 25

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

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 2020Apr 24

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...
30140Nov 2020Nov 2020Apr 27

Canadian girl

I met her in the winter in a bar upon the hill when the dark was carved by starlight and the moon had paid the bill I stepped in from the wild...
31420Nov 2020Nov 2020Apr 22

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

the perfect woman

say it in a sequence of silent lullabies say it in the echoed phrases of goodbye say it a way that one day makes me care say it so I kayak th...
30430Oct 2020Oct 2020Apr 7

mountain man

I'm rough hewn Lil you picked me still to your North star I'm the black trace elements fly to fill the sky.. you bring the things I lack I...
23720Oct 2020Oct 2020Apr 23

when

when I tamed rage and tried anew a road emerged that led to you when I quit work and made a career I fed with tune my starving ear wh...
28430Oct 2020Oct 202010 hrs ago

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

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

ana maria

you can ride of the zest of a smile, girl if you want to you can walk on the side of the earth, girl like I do like a bird who can sing...
32020Aug 2020Aug 2020Apr 23

blonde

bearded, wild quick tempered be my natural place is on the sea my northern star her memory the anchor locker and the quay nets to fire ro...
41030Jul 2020Aug 2020Apr 25

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...
47190May 2020Jul 2020Apr 28

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...
36160Jul 2020Jul 2020Apr 28

the unasked question

baby, hills run dry beneath your velvet sky outside i queue for gas in the rain baby, I don't know how the tale of us will go don't walk aw...
33520Jul 2020Jul 2020Apr 18

the trail

she looks at me.. some small hotel in some small town.. her dark curls run along the corridor of her pale shoulder.. her words hit home.. " you know,...
33430Jul 2020Jul 2020Apr 23

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...
31530Jul 2020Jul 2020Apr 27

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...
966100Jun 2020Jul 2020Apr 27

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...
78760Jul 2020Jul 2020Apr 27

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...
631100Apr 2020Jul 2020Apr 26

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...
37140Jun 2020Jun 202024 hrs ago

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...
95630Jun 2020Jun 2020Apr 27

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