Best Chesapeake Poems

O TO make the most jubilant poem!
Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of Death.
O full of music! full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!
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STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born,
Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother;
After roaming many lands--lover of populous pavements;
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When the world turns completely upside down
You say we'll emigrate to the Eastern Shore
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O to make the most jubilant song!
Full of music-full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!
Full of common employments-full of grain and trees.
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How tall among her sisters, and how fair, --
How grave beyond her youth, yet debonair
As dawn, 'mid wrinkled Matres of old lands
Our youngest Alma Mater modest stands!
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I HOLD a letter in my hand,-
A flattering letter, more's the pity,-
By some contriving junto planned,
And signed per order of Committee.
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In one dark age, beneath a single hand,
Thus rose an empire in the savage land.
Her golden seats, with following years, increase,
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'I inscribe this chant for all my people' St Jean Perse

Out on a vessel in Chesapeake Bay
A young man arose at the break of the day
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THE SEA is large.
The sea hold on a leg of land in the Chesapeake hugs an early sunset and a last morning star over the oyster
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When you come around heaven smiles
I have this feeling for you as if you as if you are a new toy
What beats with blood also jumps for joy
When you come in my face, my eyes decline
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SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF WORLD WAR III

The White House
Washington
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The Chesapeake skies cleared that night.

The days leading up were full of clouds,
With no promise of seeing the eclipse;
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Those who wish to be President
Must practice what they teach.
For their people need inspiring
To believe what they preach.
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These ugly looking lumps of calcium carbonate,
Unlike their cousins that collectors take.
Have a name known far and wide
As Apalach Oysters. ‘Tis said with pride.
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JBO:

'The beach at Sanibel... an Arlington Cemetery of shells.'
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I'S feelin' kin' o' lonesome in my little room to-night,
An' my min's done los' de minutes an' de miles,
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Oxymoron:
fresh fish

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I remember

The heat
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Bios
help us know
people
as people:
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The traveler journeys
His ship has gone far
The doldrums eclipsed
With the light of new stars
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A new environment,
A new life,
A new heaven!
The flair of a romance is what i bring to you;
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James Mitchener in his book Chesapeake
quoted historians who described
the Battle of the Chesapeake on September 5th,1781.
The US had been losing the Revolutionary
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James Michener wrote that in the
Chesapeake oyster is pronounced
arster. Is that because like
all shellfish the oysters
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The United States would not
exist without
the priceless aid from
the citizens of France.
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A Deadly Pig Virus Has Killed As Many As 6 Million Pigs In the US, Canada And Mexico

Factory farm conditions of filth are one of the factors in the development of this deadly virus which has killed millions of piglets in Canada, Mexico and the US.27 states at present are affected, with the most in Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina and Illinois. Major media have not until now carried the story.
ABC Disney and Breitbart are blaming China for a pig virus while the world's biggest pig producer is Smithfield of Virginia, with slaughterhouses and factory farms in Virginia, North Carolina, Mexico, the UK, Romania and Poland, with huge lagoons full of pig waste, dumping of toxic waste into rivers and the Chesapeake Bay causing brain infections and pfiesteria. ABC Disney is also falsifying the report of 'epidemic porcine diarrhea' by saying it does not spread to humans who eat the flesh of pigs.
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ULTIMATE SACRIFICE

Our men and women give the ultimate sacrifice
When they pledge to defend our flag.
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GENERAL WASHINGTON AT WAR

Once in command, he boxed in the British
At Boston where he captured Dorchester Heights
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I would love to see the sun rise again
Over the White House someday soon.
It always was so very beautiful
From the Chesapeake Bay by noon.
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CONSERVATIVE POET TOM ZART’S 6O
AMERICA AT WAR POEMS
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Humans have always had their need for love
Long before they could calculate the year.
Painting on the walls of caves and tombs
Stories of accomplishment, conquest and fear.
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Once in command, he boxed in the British
At Boston where he captured Dorchester Heights
Overlooking the Brits at his mercy r
As his men took aim with their cannon sites.
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CONSERVATIVE POET TOM ZART’S 6O
AMERICA AT WAR POEMS
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WASHINGTON AT WAR & THE HINGE OF HISTORY

Once in command, he boxed in the British
At Boston where he captured Dorchester Heights
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Once in command, he boxed in the British
At Boston where he captured Dorchester Heights
Overlooking the Brits at his mercy
As his men took aim with their cannon sites.
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SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF WORLD WAR III

The White House
Washington
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The United States is a spectacular land of beauty
From the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific shore
With the valleys, the plains, and succulent mountains,
And the breathtaking scenery and wonders galore.
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Unfortunately, the menhaden
will soon be more extinct that Latin,
since they are fast-depleting assets
which, overfished for fatty acids
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Dad took us fishing on Chesapeake Bay
Caught a tubfull of croakers that fine day.
And some twisty eels to slime your line
We sure has us a real fine time.
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Was just battin’ around
Trying to get a hunch
Of what the heck to get for lunch.
Opened the fridge and looked to see
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diesel roars inching its way
across 21 miles of bridges,
tunnels to eastern shore
wind blowing; i can feel
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i was sitting on flight-deck
watching these merchant ships
cruising chesapeake channel
fully loaded for christmas
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distant cars crossing bridge
small as matchbox colorless
some are in a hurry; passing
disappearing in depth tunnels
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i tire from thinking i'm going away
not far you can still hear from me
if dolphins would chuckle to sun
jump so high to reach where i am
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i was in the middle of a party
to pick up the house key
when they started talking about me
how i took the whole family to a cruise
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i'm looking at the bridge
cradling the rising sun
color of m &m candy
cars are like matchbox
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tonight would be another place of work
i would be out dancing with real waves
out from chesapeake, up, down, across
the eastern seaboard aboard the greatest
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jet planes are roaring up in sky
they must have trouble landing
on ship that is off chesapeake
i know night time flying into ship
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i'm on the flight-deck looking
to the horizon it's so beautiful
indians could have seen this
aboard their canoe crossing
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A conglomeration of guinea pigs
Bishop Doane, Dr. Johnson, my Dutch Reformed pastor; Father G. Grady, Fighting Bob Evans, and Admiral Dewey
Imagine the squeaks and squabbles
Worse than Noah's Ark, and all in the White House!
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Entrepreneur. Friend. And wife.
She's unafraid to tackle life.
A trailblazer and lioness.
Finding poise 'neath life's duress.
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GENERAL WASHINGTON AT WAR

Once in command, he boxed in the British
At Boston where he captured Dorchester Heights
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A wonderful meeting of heart and spirit
On historic Chesapeake shores,
Within a setting of calm and tranquility,
And in rooms of peace and healing quietude;
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There is an island
On the Chesapeake bay
An island called Tangier.
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John Calvin is a French cleric and lawyer who challenged that people could interpret the Bible for themselves
Rejected Catholic rituals denying that he needs an elaborate church hierarchy
Calvin went farther than Luther stressing God's omnipotence and emphasizing the need for people to submit totally to him
Calvin's ideas spread through England, Wales, and Scotland
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Skyline fading in evening haze...
The air is warm and still...
Music lost in the sweltering heat - and
No one brave enough to dance
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Down we drove,
The rim of Philadelphia
Hot motorcycle
Burning in the truck.
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On rainy days
such as this
at work it slows
down I think it may be
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The weather drops off on the Chesapeake
and shallow gray waves fall on gray waves
outside the window of our clapboard
where I live with you my water fowl,
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A bird or two wobble overhead,
sing and look off into the distance.

The mahogany coffin of my father
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Ready the Skipjack
out in the Chesapeake
Oysters are fewer-still waiting to be brought up
from the sandy depths
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Down the world with Marna!
That's the life for me!
Wandering with the wandering wind,
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Columbia's vain sons, long deluded by France,
Have dar'd to the conflict the lords of the main;
Britannia, insulted, cried, 'Warriors advance!
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What joyous notes are those, so soft, so sweet,
That unexpected, strike my charmed ear!
They are the Robin's song! This genial morn
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William or Bill as he was called,
He healed a hole in my heart;
I’m not his daughter or his wife,
But he was the father figure I sought.
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Pumpkins in orange rows and piles fill the pasture,
Next to the large shed,
Where there are some sugar pumpkins for pies,
And some mums and bags of apples and fall decorations;
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The English settlers believed their civilization was more superior than any other.
Tobacco became the American crop cultivated in Turkey
John Rolfe planted seeds far superior than the strain grown in Virginia
Virginia began to export 1.5 million pounds by the late 1620's
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Past the fourth cloverleaf, by dwindling roads
At last we came into the unleashed wind;
The Chesapeake rose to meet us at a dead end
Beyond the carnival wheels and gingerbread.
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A grainy predawn dark, early Expressway traffic
bleeding arterial tail lights across gray water
and its blue heart. Under Lemon Hill,
grunts from Boathouse Row, woodshop clunks,
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Empire


At nightfall
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One grows to love the smell of horses
and urine-soaked hay

With the Chesapeake behind it…dung in the stables
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Bonnie Parker wrote this folk poem, credited to A. L. Kirby late 19th century, from memory with some substitutions, into her bank book from The First National Bank Of Burkburnett Texas, along with 9 other poems, during her stay in the Kaufman County Jail in 1932.

Bonnie changed the original line of ''The Engineer with his oil and waste'' to her substitution of ''The Engineer with his coal and oil'', probably because she did not understand the meaning of ''waste''. Waste were the oil soaked rags used to wick oil to old style plain bearings.
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Foreword

This is a poetic eulogy to the outlaw Bonnie Parker.
Including here all the known poems associated with Bonnie,
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Nightly the hoar-frost freezes
The young grass of the field,
Nor yet have blander breezes
The buds of the oak unsealed;
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