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All Hands On Deck Poems - Poems about All Hands On Deck

Premium MemberGetting Chummy

...“Doo-doo, doo-doo,” we hear the beast coming.
Music gets under our skin. The worst of attacks,
narrated by the boat’s captain. Unsettling sink
of the USS Indianapolis. Just below the hull,
a gian...
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Categories: all hands on deck, fear, fish, humor, sound,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSPRING MADNESS

...SPRING FORWARD --> slipping & sliding ---> sneezING away ------))!!!
looming wet yellow haze : *SEVERE* outages : FUTURECAST
lIbErAtIoN Day/Daze! ; all ?|^devouring^|? (PM—AM) / gargantuan S...
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Categories: all hands on deck, dark, funny, society, spring,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberPREPARE FOR A DELUGE

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PREPARE FOR A DELUGE
take a look
debris tracking
TORNADO WATCH/WARNING
signs of rotation
how are things looking?
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
cloud to ground lightning strikes
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Categories: all hands on deck, dark, society, storm, weather,
Form: Free verse

Captain Alanna

...There is a little Pirate Girl,
Her name is Captain Alanna,
She wears a Jolly Roger on her hat,
And she loves bananas. 
She sails on a Pirate ship,
Across oceans and seas,
Swashbuckling and hunt...
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Categories: all hands on deck, character, fun, granddaughter, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBehind the Scenes of a War-torn State

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     The doctor’s practice went to waste
        the moment that the medic faced
     A call from his reserve platoon
        to fight a battle all too soon  

     The CEO of Pharma-Tech
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Categories: all hands on deck, jewish, life, military, society,
Form: Sonnet



Polite Pirates

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The captain called all hands on deck
He said come on lads what the heck
Whatever you do
when you have to poo
don’t leave the loo in such a wreck
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Categories: all hands on deck, poetry,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberTempestuous Storm

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Time and tide again waits for no man
tempest-tossed upon life’s billow
The hull or the dinghy
Serves as a fortress
Though steady on its keel
Knocked his wits and sense
As he vacillates betwee...
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Categories: all hands on deck, anger, angst, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme

A Conflict In the Summer

...A good day into a mood day
Why’s everyone being crude day
The sun is radiant
So what’s with the frown
How did the moods die down
From a happy community
To what happened to unity and the impunit...
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Categories: all hands on deck, 11th grade, community, deep,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOctopus

...would, that there were four of me
the ways that I could pleasure thee

each tentacle to tender tickle
fancied freckles, firm or fickle

one all-at-once massage, divine -
all hands on deck, in ...
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Categories: all hands on deck, analogy, body, passion,
Form: Rhyme

All Hands On Deck

...Feedback - flight or fight – it’s due to enzymes.
God put it in our brain, safeguard for crimes;
fear is normal, a good thing many times.

Facts fog up when fear uses its strong-arm. 
What is me...
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Categories: all hands on deck, 11th grade, fear,
Form: Sonnet

To Touch You

...Oh, how I long to touch you
                     it’s just that  “I’m all thumbs”
and you deserve much more than just
                            a few remaining crumbs!
  
“An arm and a leg”, I...
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Categories: all hands on deck, humorous, senses, sexy, word
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRecreating the Night Sky

...No one has time to do anything tonight but work.
We are concentrating on the exactness of each movement.
Meticulously recreating the night sky, a united effort
No one wasting time to speak, whispe...
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Categories: all hands on deck, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Verse

My Cry

...I can't imagine the cry ranged from my eyes
Sweeping the floor like a flood.
This non can imagine to be our lot.
Despite all hands on deck for success to make

Non can tell of how fate has thus ...
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Categories: all hands on deck, abuse, africa, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Epic

I'M Going To Sea In a Blueberry Boat

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I’m going to sea in a blueberry boat,
macaroon waves I will sail
Far past the girls and the buoys I’ll float,
maybe spout off to a whale

My crew at the ready but still half a sleep,
I’ll ...
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Categories: all hands on deck, fun,
Form: Rhyme

The Hard Ship

...I am the skipper of this ship;
A ship is a ship, whatever name you tag it with.
With face overwrought and fierce this ship I steer.
The stars my guide, with tears I press on,
Looking for the shor...
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Categories: all hands on deck, depression, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

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