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Raft Poems - Poems about Raft

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Despondency
...A lady in a Victorian dress, Next to an old printing press. Within a gloomy writing lair, Falling down the abyss of despair. I can see the tempest in her heart, It’s like a wild museum of art.......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, anxiety, depression, sad, solitude,
Form: Rhyme



Homer translations
...Homer translations Surrender to sleep at last! What an ordeal, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michae......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, death, father son, god,
Form: Free verse
Break on through
...Take a battering ram to the other side The recoil will do me harm A knife and spoon will suffice Break the gates violently with arms It will seal itself again and entice It will swallow ......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, addiction, extended metaphor, god,
Form: Rhyme
Stellar endings
...Afloat in a river of stars, Ecstasy knits the raft of thoughts, A destination is what I seek, Sailing away mindlessly, expecting the waters to speak. The water calmly paves the way ahead, As t......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, age, anxiety, boat, dream,
Form: Quatrain
A Replacement Life
...A childhood summer leaks away, taking with it its raft of unanchored memories. Thoughts grasps at the cold hands of the never-was. Time and age question. The long buried emerge, a would-be......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, poetry,
Form: Free verse



fisherman
...The Lonely Fisherman He sat on a rowing boat in the fjord he wore a yellow raincoat and a southwestern cap matching his coat was like seeing a French movie, an intellectual one I couldn’t sta......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, abuse, anti bullying, beach,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Promising Island
...On his raft, the lone traveler was now at a couple of cable lengths from the two islands. He could distinctively see the trees. He smiled. At last, he would have some fresh fruits to eat instead of......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Footprints
...The Moon lights the path in the sand where you walked. Water fills those footprints like sand filled cups. I could drink from those sole shaped sandy prints knowing you once stood and created......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mermaid The Mirage
... Sailors Rusty and Oz cruise back from the steely shores of the Bahamas, underway and navigating to Key West. Tired from the ship’s routine, duties, and three long months away. There is a full moon......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, humor, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Final Farewell
...To my life that betrayed the butterflies~ within my chrysalis mind, forgive my flawed dialect, I no longer look upon sakura skies, awaiting a ray of fluffy lies, I’m more than j......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Valentine's draught
... January, February hearts are chilled Rx recommended a healthy swill of Valentine's draught ~ love's life-raft......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, february, january, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member THESE HOLIDAYS
...These holidays, like a whirlwind romance…can’t catch my breath. Hustle and bustle of parties and gifts. Figuring it all out, the list, counting it at least twice. Birthday parties piled up, tissue pa......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, holiday,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member my favorite Christmas Shows
...Christmas is not Christmas without certain shows on my TV Rudolph and Frosty from the sixties, are two I have to see. A Christmas Story from the eighties always makes me laugh. Christmas Vacation ......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Leaves On a Stream
...They tell me to let it go Thoughts leaves on a stream In the grove of trees Lies my willow golden Blown by winds and rain By a reaching brook Leaves butterflies descending Pacific take these w......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, depression, eulogy, psychological, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death Is Everywhere
...People die every second of the day Death is the absolute absence of life People are murdered, slaughtered in daylight Sadness is at the center of the fray. Babies are born every second of the d......Read the rest...
Categories: raft, conflict, death, farewell, fire,
Form: Rhyme

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