Awestruck faces all turned upwards
As Blue Angels shriek the sky
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Navy Show ‘n Tell
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged Annapolis, Blue Angels, brigade, Chesapeake, Naval Academy, Navy, Navy football, Severn, submarine on September 3, 2011 | Comments Off
End of the Line (four haiku)
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged Annapolis, Chesapeake, chicken necking, crabs, homecoming, Navy, Old Bay, watermen on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Old Bay-embalmed crabs
Bushels to butcherpaper
Fingers feel the burn
Annapolis Compromise
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged Alex Haley, Annapolis, Chesapeake, compromise, Ego Alley, flood, Haley, hurricane, Isabel, kayak, roots on August 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Isabelle was here!”
Scribbled near a hip-high line
Sobering reminder on a shop wall
Of a battle long and damply fought
Sailing Down the Moon
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged Chesapeake, geese, harvest, memory, moon, sailing on August 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Cherished memory of that chill fall night
Teased from anchor by a beckoning breeze
Jacob’s Ladder
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged bay, captain, ladder, pilot, port, sea lane Chesapeake, ship channel on August 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Pilot climbs up jacob’s ladder
Scales the ship, commands the rudder
Safe to port in any weather
Guide through night and day
Beneath the Surface
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged algae, Chesapeake, dead zone, glacier, oyster, underwater grass, water pollution on August 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Glaciers once receded slowly at their own pace
Not so today the underwater grass and oyster beds
Acres and acres gone fast missing, uncounted dead
In a silent losing war with the swelling human race
Soundings
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged beachgrass, buoy, Chesapeake, foghorn, gale, geese, gull, heron, hull, lighthouse, osprey, regatta, sail on August 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The hiss of water’s retreat on sand
The “crawwwwk” as a Great Blue Heron lands
The lament of the Light on a foggy night
The honking “V” of wild geese in flight
Bay Ghosts (four haiku)
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged Algonquian, buoy, Calvert Cliffs, Captain John Smith, Chesapeake, explorer, fossil, oyster, sharks' teeth, shell on August 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A path of crushed shells
Oyster ghosts’ complaining shards
A crunch underfoot
The Bridge
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged Bay Bridge, Chesapeake, Eastern Shore, grace, interdependence, suffering, tidewater, watermen on July 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Twin spans yet countless bridges cloaked in plain sight
Gleaming in sunlight, rising from the shroud of fog
Innumerable crossings convey a myriad of yearnings
Confession and Forgiveness
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged boating, Chesapeake Bay, confession, forgiveness, running aground on July 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the autumn of my seaworthy life
I humbly confess the ever so now and then
Occasional bumping of Bay’s ample bottom
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