Funny Boat Poems

staring at a stereo
in the Serengeti
Sarah getting stir crazy
gotta get out of this ghetto
Sarah saw a
chance and took it
sailed on a sailboat
slowly to Nantucket
thanks wholly
to...

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three brooms
aboard a trawler moored
and all a’leaning by a door
brush! aloud the skipper yelled
and grabbed three hands
that grabbed in hand
and deck the brooms a’swept

three brooms
a...

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A man, more patrician than not,
Of folly, he had quite a lot.
Stentorian voice,
But words of poor choice,
A sot, not a yacht, had he bought....

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ABANDONED

Standing here by the empty dock
Cruise ship sailed, maybe an hour ago
I readily admit that I was a little late 
But I somehow knew it...

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I like the dark,

The unseen, unknown, the scary,

Except for heights, that you can keep away from me.

 

I like mystery, 

The clues, scenes, the possibilities,

Just...

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Do you remember that long-ago summer
Camping out down by the lake?
You, me, your sister, and my mother
And all of the memories we’d make?

Fishing, we found,...

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Do you remember that long-ago summer
Camping out down by the lake?
You, me, your sister, and my mother
And all of the memories we’d make?

How we strolled...

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Abacus yacht boats pleasy
Banana boats are queazy
Catamaran boats squeezy
Dinghy boats all out easy
Eagle Craft boats too cheesy
Fishing boats yet so breezy
Game boats crazy uneasy
Houseboats creepy...

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On a cruise ship in the sea
breaking blue waves peacefully,
yet once we land and I descend
the coral moves and shifts and bends.
Out comes something small...

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BOAT RIDE BY GOAT

             A goat wore white satin coat,
   ...

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in the green, green garden,
under the blue, blue sky,
did you throw me a rose
on the sly?

on the slow slow river,
in the wooden log boat,
did you...

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Ladies please take note 
this is a massage for
the little man in the boat.
To whom so much of myself 
I willingly devote. 
I hope you...

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Nearly Six Foot

Of heaven on the water I wish to sing, it is a funny thing. 
A small boat and sail, the size of a...

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I’m going to sea in a blueberry boat
            With dainty peony sails prettily stitched
...

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I thought,. I'm going to sea on my blueberry boat!
Hoping to have fun and stay afloat
I took my blueberry boat out to sea
Filled with all...

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