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Pink Cloud Ray

...Thicker rays of summer sun

Just poked through the clouds

And licked upon at my face

Like I was somehow painstakingly 
applying a fresh coat of lipstick 

In a subtle shade of fleshy pink
...

Categories: abandoned ship, pain,
Form: Free verse

Ship

...A nautical mess adrift on seas of emotion
Finding himself once a feeble notion
A first mate who eventually abandoned ship
His heart put on paper, which she gave a rip
Finally, he found a port to ...

Categories: abandoned ship, break up, cute love,
Form: Free verse

I Never Got To

...I never got to love you.
Not the way I wanted to.
I never got the chance to wake up in your arms and see just how you start your day.
Because way too soon you took you away.
All you gave me was p...

Categories: abandoned ship, break up, for her,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Beached

...Drinking, looking for a life raft.
Juke box broken,
everyone here broken.
An ocean washed us up,
turbulent sea’s snatched us away.
Captain courage has abandoned ship,
he now sails icebergs
ove...

Categories: abandoned ship, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Urns Overturned

...The last students you've loved slip out of the room
  Their chairs ghostly, enshrouded, urns overturned

Your eyes survey the wreckage, the whisper-less ruins
  Vultures and jackals lips lick, po...

Categories: abandoned ship, education, grief, loss, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Death Blue

...I saw him coming, my old friend Death 
His eyes were not wrathful but also not Kind
He simply looked up at the sky so Blue 
Asked me if I was doing quite Well
I told him I wasn’t ready to be Dead...

Categories: abandoned ship, death, heaven, ocean,
Form: Sestina

Dawn

...Sudden dawn presses against the horizon
Beaming rays of light that shine on a dismal scene
Eyes bloodshot, swollen, and salted
Wrung dry of emotion, closed to the world before them

Her thoughts...

Categories: abandoned ship, betrayal, cry, deep, first
Form: Free verse

In

...Doesn't matter what my name is. Certain types of men do certain types of things. Like join a terrorist group coz they believe they're right. I've been inside with them.                               ...

Categories: abandoned ship, conflict, courage, political, prison,
Form: Free verse

Opium and Opera

...When the Opium wears off,
my bones begin to ache
at every passing breeze,
my muscles succumb to gravity’s will,
and my skin is a blanket of pain.

When the Opera finally ends,
the silence is
...

Categories: abandoned ship, analogy, confusion, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

A Ray of Hope

...I see yonder
A storm gathering on the horizon
And the wind tightening its belt
to show its might
over the land and the sea.

I could feel it in my bones
The chill that numbs
your body, your mind,
As ...

Categories: abandoned ship, hope,
Form: Free verse

Peaceful Times By This Calm River

...Huddled among massive rocks,
at the bottom of a barren cliff,
breathing in the strongest aroma of jasmines,
watching hordes of seagulls hover over an abandoned ship;
pensively and attentively spe...

Categories: abandoned ship, adventure, animals, nature, peace,
Form: Sestina