Amused by
Alternate spelling
Of words British
And American
As if English
Not tricky
Enough

But harbouring
A secret desire
For a language
A little more exotic

A preference
For grey skies
The colour of
Aluminium
Learnt early

#poetry
#writing
#harbour

‘I used to live right there.’

‘There? That’s the #harbour. You mean you used to live on a houseboat?’

‘I did. I met the man of my dreams-he lived on the boat right next to me. Everything was great in the beginning, then it was a tragic romance story.

‘What happened?’

‘We drifted apart.’

#vss365

#vss365 #harbour #poem #poetry #time #today #yesterday #tomorrow #journey #life #rev
#photography #sunsent #myphoto

fighting the storm
to reach your #harbour
to your safety
where the devils of the sea
can no longer reach me

#vss365
#poetry

In the harbour
after midnight
the mist rolls through
In a place I shouldn't be
Just water slapping seaweed
All sinister and slippery
Cold and dank
and nothing to see
Walking planks
on a blackened sea
unknown and narrow
under me
#vss365 #harbor #harbour #poetry

A lighthouse is a warning
here is no #harbour
Lighthouse keepers are lonely
their job is to say, keep away
Pointing to rocks and shoals
is a solitary job
Better like your own company
the rest are down at the pier for the carnival
Nobody warned them about the hucksters
#vss365

Worry would be easy to justify now. There are many things that could go horribly wrong. Instead, I choose to #harbour anticipatory optimism. As I wait for the big things to turn out right, I can't help but notice all the little things that already do.
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The #harbour kept returning the dead.

Not bodies, memories.

Every morning, fishermen found yesterday’s arguments floating between the boats: apologies, betrayals, things never said.

Then, this morning, it returned my childhood.

I recognized the house immediately.

It was still burning.

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Happy Sunday everyone. Enjoy that last part of the weekend. ##vss365 #haiku

Haven from the storm
Her #harbour invites safety
Warm welcome assured

#vss365 #harbour #music #BookSky #Poetry #LitSky

Happy Sunday #Bluesky!⛵🌊🌞

ICM images for today's #Stunday.

#photography #sailing #boasts #sky #sea #harbour #ICM #ICMphotography

As a jingoistic
proud America First patriot
I condemn you stuffy Brits
for bastardizing our English language

Don't ride up in a Lift

Don't shit in a Loo

It's spelled harbor NOT #harbour

We don't need the extra U

Don't make us do Tariff punishment

Thank you for your attention

#vss365 #poetry

FAT PEARL

30 years adrift and now she's here,
Lights out,
Sleeping in the #harbour.

We loiter in tired inns
On the slopes of Eastside,
Drowning our fear
In malt and silly tales.
When red-nosed sots
Talk of movement above deck,
We lower our gaze
To the boils on our swollen feet.
#vss365

'Touch Me With A Tune...'

#vss365 #harbour #poetry

#vss365 #haiku
Would an 'Ice Age'
push any #Harbour off all flooded coasts
from world-wide oceans❓

(Followed by THE global Tsunami)
youtu.be/pIxRVfCpA64?...

#vss365 #harbour

I'd harbour your heart
Given half a chance because
My dry dock is free

🛶❤️🛶

was i a ghost
in my absence

a regrettable silence
binding a vacuumous fate

did you sigh away
the gossamer tethers
as i yet dreamt
of your clavicle
and my lips

did your secret verse
still harbour
some sacred memory
of me

#vss365
#harbour

"I hope you still don't #harbour a grudge," he laughed taking another mouthful of pasta.

"Of course not," she said forcing a smile.

Then he collapsed holding his throat.

"Not anymore..." she said as she wrapped up his dead body.

#vss365 #writing #stories

You seek harbour, just like a ghost of yourself that imagined being some place to breathe - even if you couldn't do that all the way anymore, like the people on their hundred vacation, or in simple uniform mid-tier fealty, seem to do.
#harbour #vss365