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Barnacled Poems - Poems about Barnacled

Siren’s End
...Three corn husk dolls in a silvered cove— the tide takes two, barnacled eyes vacant. Our remaining doll frowns, drawn by a shrill song savage as a sea hiss— til a gasp ends the si......

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Categories: barnacled, birth, conflict, courage, creation,
Form: Free verse
Learn Your Place In Society
...Prosperity proved no defense against the years or changing fates writ in the stars - nor masters of arms foresaw the weapons that unseated their lineages, leaving only ghostly bones where legions ral......

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Categories: barnacled, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Leviathan
... On bowride below gentle titans peep ghost ships of the Pacific hunt and chase - great barnacled seafarers of the deep beneath the waves its clear blue waters grace. Where yon an ol......

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Categories: barnacled, beauty, mythology, nature, sea,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Meditations On a Derelict Wharf
...The tide worn and barnacled pylons holding up the wharf wobble on a sea swell like loose teeth. Most of the decking planks are missing. Those that remain span joists with bones of rotted wood......

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Categories: barnacled, age, hope, mystery, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bad Buys and Goodbyes
...Old Barnacle Bob just bought a boat The barnacled boat just didn't float His wife preferred he bought her a coat I'm leaving you Bob was all she wrote......

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Categories: barnacled, boat,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member If Dullness Be Your Plunder
...63. If Dullness Be Your Plunder Speech be silence gone amiss But if speech be ne'er to be. Choose words with some conviction Lest you dare to weary me. Tell a story ......

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Categories: barnacled, angst, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Whaler
...Harpoon raised, the chaser boat in full flight. Coiled rope, explosive head, cold steel reflects the fading light. Oil spill blood surrounds the ship, a flag aloft wit......

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Categories: barnacled, environment, nature, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Look Deeper
...Barnacled brows shutter aged eye Look deeper, look deeper There's beauty inside Addiction, disease Abused, neglected Look deeper, look deeper There's beauty inside ......

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Categories: barnacled, christian, discrimination, perspective, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alone Poem
...alone your alone alone isn't a crime the problem is nobody wants to be around alone alone echoes nobody cares to hear it they'd rather listen to birds, a water fall, a 747 taking off a wail......

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Categories: barnacled, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Anchor
...I’ve been drifting for such a long time This old ship with its seafaring ways But big waves ever harder to climb Seem to threaten to shorten my days This old ship and its seafaring ways Barnac......

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Categories: barnacled, forgiveness, love,
Form: Pantoum
Wracked With Ratiocination When Writing
...no shortage of familiar metier real (material) aye attest welling up within thy breast merely a predicament how to winnow junk bonded barnacled accretion encrusted amidst ......

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Categories: barnacled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Until We Were Blind To the Stars
...Day joined to expired day, nights lost to darkest night. Another year has defected to the phalanx arrayed against us, their iron hooves now thundering, their sheer number mocking our plu......

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Categories: barnacled, age, december, life, new
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She Is Nice
...This prose, a shipwreck... Barnacled and long forgot at the bottom of a lonely sea. This song, a rusted railcar... alone 'n fallen down a ......

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Categories: barnacled, language, love,
Form: Free verse
Blue Waiting
...Breathe elegance of gray green lessons in simplicity blue heron waits I watch your minor shifts in moving I’ve already squiggled a dozen times while you peer tall on your barnacled stage ......

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Categories: barnacled, beach, beauty, blue, nature,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Fall Festival
...Her indifference was merely a façade, Mine too, if truth be asked, it might have been. The day had been an autumn harvest festival, A ballroom packed with clichés ringing as bells A banner was ......

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Categories: barnacled, dark, daughter,
Form: Free verse

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