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Ship Ahoy
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By Quentin Clingerman
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Ship Ahoy!

I am sailing mighty high
In a lemon gray blustery sky
The ramshackle flotilla I'm in
Is wearin' awfully thin

"Ship Ahoy, there Mate, cast your Moby Dick spear
There're no more quaint fish over here!"

The flotilla floats on in these musty clouds
Lookin' for all to see like vampire shrouds
Their rudders move eerily to and fro
But without water there's no place to go

"Ship Ahoy, there Mate, cast your Moby Dick spear
There're no more quaint fish over here!"

Whether aft or below
Astern or abow
The sails at halfmast are sullen and pale
As if their sewers were all preps from Yale

"Ship Ahoy, there Mate, cast your Moby Dick spear
There're no more quaint fish over here!"

The orange rune's sun's gone down
The flotilla's turned round
It's lost in vast cyber space
Lost without trace

"Ship Ahoy, there Mate, cast your Moby Dick spear
There're no more quaint fish over here!"


Ship Ahoy (c)2001 Quentin Clingerman


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Submitted: Friday, November 30, 2001

Last Updated: Friday, November 30, 2001

About the Poet
I am a retired educator. Now 85 years of age. I live in Maryland. I am the father of three ladies and thirteen grandchildren. Four grandchildren now married. I have two great grandsons, Koi Jon and Quinn Manu and a great granddaughter,Sephira Jade. Poems are an expression of how I think and feel. Variety in either case! I am the founder of WordChimes.com WC originated in February, 2000.


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