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Best Showboat Poems

Below are the all-time best Showboat poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of showboat poems written by PoetrySoup members


Dolly Parton
She’s a buxom blonde with a pretty face,
Who carries herself with such strength and grace.
From the humblest of beginnings, she got her start
Her songs are...

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Categories: showboat, music, people, words,
Form: Rhyme



A Sinking Boat
The second house this year to go under in Atlantic City.
This is a scenario that does not look too pretty.
A once venerable establishment will soon...

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Categories: showboat, business, games,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 1
SHE was my wife, once ...

long ago, so very long ago ...
we met on the showboat, up-river,
almost fifty years back now ...
I was a young...

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Categories: showboat, history, sad love, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blind To Me
1. All I want is an increase in bonding
and on that smile to be a shareholder
watching the growth of your guts silently
to tenderly tame a...

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Categories: showboat, feelings, i love you,
Form: Lyric
The Original
On a ship of Fools she has gone with the Wind
Titanic’s sinking Christmas in Connecticut
Chained and Possessed by this Sudden Fear
The Heiress in this our...

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Categories: showboat, happiness, nostalgia, passion, woman,
Form: Free verse



Show Time
Showdown...
Showboat
Show up.
Show me
Showstopper!
Showman...
Showgirl...
Show out
Show-off!...

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Categories: showboat, business, inspirational, life, on
Form: Free verse
A Child With No Praise
A child with no praise causes these kind of days

Your words are often micromanaged
Yet your rants and raves are never challenged
Your brain, thoughts and words...

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Categories: showboat, america, corruption, hate, money,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Desanctimonius Jumps In - In Trump's Own Words
Little upstart, young showboat
Lots of bluster full of gloat,
Been there minutes, thinks he knows,
Blind ambition and it shows.

They say he's bright and tough to boot,
Compared...

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Categories: showboat, funny, humor, leadership, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Microsoft Found Poems
Telco one
 not until 5:00 PM

 had objected 
lack of will

 come back 
and go to some of actor dinner

 will fix the car tomorrow...

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© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: showboat, allegory, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Concrete
Keep My Soda Cold
I notice more drinks are being sold warm these days 
If I took a sip of one, I would puke, so keep them away 
I...

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Categories: showboat, imagination, parody, satire, song-women,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Oh, July
OH, JULY…..you showboat
Barging in…with a bang
Flags and fireworks
Flowers and tears

A grand party
Celebrating our INDEPENDENCE
From those who tried
To restrain our FREEDOM

Oh, July, let Us always remember
Those...

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Categories: showboat, america, celebration, history, july,
Form: Verse
He Could Be Never Knew What
He Could Be Never Knew What

Could have been never knew what;
Heard from team he had been cut;
Boat that shows; (Showboat)
Temper throws,
And could not keep big...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: showboat, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Cruise
Showboat you never go out of style
Tucked in out of sight for quite a while
Roar to life perfection never fades away
Make a run one bright...

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Categories: showboat, addiction, america, beauty, car,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member wingless love
wither
away not
to thee gifts reason

of art
wingless dove bestilled
on halfpace empyreal thy breast behooves
thee further

o'er yond clingiest fairgrounds
moor dawning flora
promising showboat sanctifying lightness
up from their beds...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: showboat, analogy, bird, endurance, hurt,
Form: Suzette Prime

Book: Shattered Sighs