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Ballast Poems - Poems about Ballast


Premium Member Ballast Drift
Any railroad man will tell you truly, If you ballast the ties with river stone, Your rolling stock is most sure to de-rail. All your back-breaking labor laying track Will have earned you no further capital gain. I don’t even want to hear you complain. You can’t make the base for the needed grade By taking cheap and amateurish shortcuts. You’ll find...

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Categories: ballast, allegory, life,
Form: Sonnet
Ballast
BALLAST Hold me in your arms your love still keeps me grounded So that I can move forward. Hold me in your heart your faith keeps me cognizant to know I am always yours....

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Categories: ballast, care, confidence, faith, love,
Form: Sedoka



Premium Member Ballast
Faith serves as ballast anchoring my calmest self - stress loves to perturb my still. Faith holes make punctures leaving me to drown at sea - stress floats to watch me drown. ...

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Categories: ballast, conflict, deep, endurance, faith,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Ballast
Precious counter-weights ships utilized for sailing, ballast stones got dumped offshore. But in empty hulls sailors found common boulders held incalculable worth. (Sedoka) 03/14/2020 Pick-A-Title, Vol 15 - Sedoka - Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh Title Chosen - "Ballast"...

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Categories: ballast, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sedoka
Premium Member Ballast
Buoyant ship built to remain afloat through voyages of my life As she navigates the stormiest of seas. An unsinkable ship with Loyal hands at the helm. The ship's keel averts her from toppling. ...

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Categories: ballast, allegory, life, metaphor, strength,
Form: Acrostic



Ballast
This love, enduring - ballast of the soul is ever curing, thee to mine, not role, but a clear stream of commonplace, of knoll, that not division's grinding can control! Heart spoken, not then of some earthly toll, life's emptying - its prisons, its extol is neither weight's dissension or escrow, that carrying as to mention, only know. Love's ballast - risen, tempered...

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Categories: ballast, love,
Form: Rhyme

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