Awestruck faces all turned upwards
As Blue Angels shriek the sky
Thrills and chills of high-tech dogfight
Show the crowd what taxes buy
Posts Tagged ‘Annapolis’
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 on Navy Show ‘n Tell
End of the Line (four haiku)
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged Annapolis, Chesapeake, chicken necking, crabs, homecoming, hospice, Navy, Old Bay, watermen on August 31, 2011 | 1 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!â€
Scribbled near a hip-high line
Sobering reminder on a shop wall
Of a battle long and damply fought
Big Water
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged Annapolis, big water, Bloody Point, Bloody Point Light, Chesapeake Bay, Edgewater, gray Bay, ship channel, South River, twin engines on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Glad again for twin engines’ hedging bet
Limping home across the Bay on only one
Day’s plans dashed but all hands dry and safe
Time slows to a chugging crawl and starts to chafe
Spinnaker Sunset
Posted in Lucky Enough poetry collection (Chesapeake), tagged Annapolis, Chesapeake Bay, colorful sails, racing yachts, sailboat race, sailing race, spinnaker, sunset finish on November 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sleek yachts and daylight race apace
Downwind to the finish borne
Sunset’s pastel reverie shattered
By gay neon sails and shouts that warn