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Amidships Poems - Poems about Amidships


The End of the Flying Dutchman, Part Ii
......“Harpoons away,”this ensign said, “Impact in a minute or less.” The captain nodded, strange as this was, they’d picked on the wrong ship to test. Out on the Atlantic waters across the waves......

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Categories: amidships, cousin, history, myth, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Voyager
... He put to sea west south-west in a small cabin amidships - stole away in an unknown quest, salty ocean brine wet on his lips In the fires of smoke and light Neptune raised hi......

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Categories: amidships, adventure, voyage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Ocean Dolphins-
..."Lo! the dolphin dotes laughs My passion is the maritime coast 'Ocean!' said I, 'thing of seawater.' Oceans dolphins In a kingdom full of coastlines Eagerly I looked for the seaway I c......

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Categories: amidships, adventure, analogy, animal, beautiful,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Undefeated, a Boxing Lesson
...UndefeaTed. A Boxing Lesson. A friend, off the Vineyard, wrighted a ship. And, perhaps himself, and certainly the worlds ‘round him. His words were fashioned, shipshape and watertight ......

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Categories: amidships, boat, cancer, inspirational, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 12c
...Chapter 12 c The fireflower (cont.) When at last they had descended Back down to the forest clearing Rosy sidled up to Lisa Yielded up the flowering branches   Now they had secured the fire......

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Categories: amidships, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative



Odyssey From Africa 6c
...CHAPTER 6 (continued, c) Several of the primate children  Sat together in the branches  Of a tree; they did not notice  Danger silently approaching    Through the leaves a brown and yellow  ......

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Categories: amidships, adventure, africa, imagination, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 3b
...Chapter 3 THE RIVER continued (b) Carefully they placed the children In the small canoe amidships; Pushing out into the current Han swam alongside to guide them Kwona, as she stood and w......

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Categories: amidships, adventure, africa, fantasy, history,
Form: Narrative
The Tower Rebuilt
...I shall resolve to leave this Place now... And steadfastly search out, Nestling between ridge and bluff Amidst the folds of a foreign Land, Several acres of unkempt ground Fallow and rough; ......

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Categories: amidships, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Indianapolis
...The date is twenty six July,nineteen hundred forty five soon, only three hundred seventeen would be alive Eleven hundred ninety six of you assigned eight hundred seventy nine lives denied, Two torp......

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Categories: amidships, dedication, war, men, men,
Form: Epitaph

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