yachtsman_7yachtsman_7 Most Liked Poems (55)

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tales of the everyday

For John Prine...
34151Apr 2020Apr 2020Apr 2020Apr 26

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 2020Sep 2020Oct 2020Apr 6

kiss

you and me sitting on the edge of memory the radio sings about the things we want to do your kisses bring a rising spring of honeydew i...
32830Apr 2020Apr 202021 hrs ago

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

wandering anger

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 t...
29110May 2020May 2020Apr 17

Vanessa, explained

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 defini...
34120May 2020May 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

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

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...
39980Jun 2020Jun 2020Apr 27

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...
97760Jun 2020Jun 2020Apr 27

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 202011 hrs ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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