Poetry: Boats among the fleet
By Jacob Blevins Jan 2012
The boats among the fleet
Are good examples of defeat
Haunted by broken, back-breaking ballets
Accepting the inevitable
Follow closely
Cautiously shadow
Mind left steaming
Optimists rise
Pessimists pester
Wipe my eyes
With peppered fingers
Fill my glass
With turpentine
Down Down
We chose to go
Less Less
We chose to know
Open the heart
To contemplate surgery
Disregard whispers
Save energy for screams
Constantly strive
To cure blackened lips
For where dreams lay dead
Must be warm.
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Jacob Blevins has lived in Michigan since he was an infant. He spent most of his life on the southeast region, but recently moved near Flint. He started writing when he was 10-years-old. He fell in love with poetry and began writing poems two years later. He has been writing ever since.
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