Is there a genre called "Treasure Hunter's Poetry"? Here's some.

ropesfish

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Range Rovers and Hummers are just not our style
That is precisely, until we find that big pile
Of treasure and history under the sea
That awaits the bold salvors, thatā€™s you and thatā€™s me

Taking the riches of the New World back to their kings
Muzo emeralds, Potosi silver and precious golden things
The galleons and sloops and frigates and schooners
The carracks and brigs, (they should have left sooner)

Were provisioned and loaded and stocked to the gills
With the treasures and trade goods that came down from the hills
From China and Manila on routes across the Pacific
For two hundred fifty years, their landfall was specific

To Acapulco then overland to Veracruz
Across sands so hot theyā€™d burn through your shoes
Sometimes down to Panama City then across to Portobelo
Precious stones, Incan gold and costly goods to tempt a fellow

Like the privateer Henry Morgan who tried to steal it all
He failed to fail but he failed to win, but made it back to Port Royal

These ships and their sailors were lost by the score
The 1622 Fleet, 1715, 1733 and many, many more.

The New World had weather that the Europeans did fear
But they were never able to learn to completely steer clear.
The sailing routes to their homelands are the same to this day
Summer hurricanes come aā€™hunting- God help you if youā€™re in their way

The Spaniards lost belongings and treasures, their wives and their lives
In numbers that gave their backers and insurers the hives
Down they went to the bottom of the sea
Or washed up on the beach for the wreckers to see

The Bay Islands of Honduras, the Corn Islands, El Bluff
All have legends and stories of shipwrecks and stuff
Out in deep waters there are reefs and shallow banks
That made good captains get jumpy and tremble their shanks

If youā€™re brave and well financed and just have to go seeā€¦
Set a course from Limon at about 28 degrees
And you will find these wild places where the winds screams so shrill
That you may not stop to explore, just go on to Negril

Stop at San Andreas or Providencia and fill up your tanks
Off to the Serrana, the Pedro or Serranilla Banks
Or go north to Chinchorro, Rosario or Misteriosa
Where the modern day pirates would scare Barbarossa

These places are legend, their stories our lore
If only those governments hadn't closed up the store
UNESCO and their pet Archies- the miserable whores
started hoarding those shipwrecks and all of their cargo
to leave to be buried, to rot to please their embargo

They sit on their towers and scribble their papers
for each other, no others would dare such a caper
to take from the world what should be seen by our eyes
for nothing but the greed of their union, thieves in disguise

but maybe, just maybe there will come a day
when reason and free enterprise come back into sway
and those who still can and who still have the guile
can go out to sea and return with a pile


Bill Black
May 4, 2018
 

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Meet Dick Anderson (involved in treasure hunting from the early 60's in the California Mother Lode and played some in the Caribbean) when I shared a cabin with him on a failed treasure hunting expedition to dive the 'Geldermelsen' (1754)in the South China Sea out of Singapore. His poem:
Sex is fine, and sin is devine,
But picking up treasure is the ultimate pleasure.
 

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I need to quit staying up late, but here's a new one:

A little news and opinion column...

As a tribute to the the folks who found it, the folks who recovered it and the man that made us all want to be treasure finders...This one's for ya'll.

The Ballad of Mel's Gold Bar

There once lived a man in sunny Cayo Hueso
Who spent his life hunting for lost Spanish pesos
And silver bars and the gold escudo
Every day and every minuto

He found them, he did, by the bucket and barrel
His crews brought them home despite trouble and peril
He paid off his bills and opened a store
And a museum to honor them who possessed it before
At 200 Greene Street, he opened those doors

For years the museum informed and excited
The legends and stories imaginations ignited
In visitors from afar and these States United
But there are minds that are dark and bad to the bone
Out there waiting and plotting to take those treasures home

One exhibit, a favorite of millions Iā€™m told
Let visitors caress a bar made of pure gold
2 kilos of gold, worth about half a million
In bulletproof glass to thwart all the villains

Itā€™s sad, but Iā€™ll say there is no case made so well
That no rat in this world or maybe from Hell
Canā€™t cut it or crack it or bust it wide open
Why would they do it? My guess is boozinā€™ or dopinā€™

In two thousand ten, a pair of weasels most foul
Committed a crime that still makes me scowl
They walked in the museum and cracked open the case
And stole that gold bar and made their escape

Lost to the sea in Sixteen hundred Twenty Two,
Recovered by Mel Fisherā€™s treasure finding crew
stolen in ten, and searched for by many
after 8 years the leads were all gone, there just werenā€™t any

But somebody bragged, they just had to tell
And somebody heard them and the news got to Melā€™s
Daughter and sons and the Monroe County cops
then there came news that made the treasure world stop
Email servers were stressed, those weasels got popped!

Johnson and Goldman, who the hell are these guys
Too stupid to bother to wear a disguise?
The news says one rat ratted out the other
I bet Goldman is cussinā€™ Dick Johnson and his mother

Johnson made a plea bargain for a couple less years
But they both will be chillinā€™ in the pen with their peers
and they both should remember, remember to fear
The Great Wheel of Karma, for on some fine day
They may go shark fishing, that trip is one way.


Bill Black, Sebastian, Florida
May 5, 2018
 

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Salvor6

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That was wonderful Bill. I see one problem. They didn't break into the museum, they took it during operating hours.
 

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ropesfish

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Crap....Pete shows up as the Quality Control Poetry Police...I thought they closed at 5...I can fix dat prollem with a one word edit.
Thanks, Pete. Accuracy is important. :)
 

Salvor6

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Bill I see the Nobel Committee has suspended it's 2018 award for Literature. Did you have anything to do with this?
 

BillBartlett

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There once was a pirate named Greg
Who thought he could lay golden eggs
He'd spin you a tale
'bout some imaginary trail
But he was really just wanking your peg
 

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